Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2023

Standing 6-foot-2-inches, Idris Elba's size helps to sell his characters. As a detective in " Luther," he often averted protocol and went rogue. On "The Wire," he played a shrewd, intimidating crime boss in the drug world. In the 2022 movie " Beast," he protected his daughters from a ferocious...

Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022

George Miller's "Three Thousand Years of Longing" spans millennia, but it can often feel longer waiting in between films from the "Mad Max" director.

Seven years after Miller's "Fury Road" blazed its way across movie screens, the 77-year-old filmmaker is finally back with a movie two...

Saturday, May. 21, 2022

It's taken a lot of time and a good deal of yearning for Australian director George Miller to make "Three Thousand Years of Longing, " his long-awaited follow-up to "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Miller premiered "Three Thousand Years of Longing" over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, the...

Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2021

Historians estimate that 1 in 4 American cowboys were Black but you would be hard pressed to find a movie genre whiter than the Western. "Concrete Cowboy," an urban Western about African American riders in Philadelphia starring Idris Elba, is about an often unseen — and persisting — Black cowboy...

Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017

Documentaries about Robin Williams, Gloria Allred and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a Lizzie Borden film with Kristen Stewart, and Debra Granik’s long-awaited follow up to “Winter’s Bone” are among the 110 features set to premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Institute...

Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013

If there were ever a season to learn, via the movies, about crucial periods of history, it's this one. Last month we were introduced to "12 Years a Slave," Steve McQueen's unforgettable look at American slavery, through one man with an incredible story....

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