Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022

The spooky, sublime stop-motion animation worlds of Henry Selick are feasts for the eye that can burrow into the imaginations of young minds. In films like "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach" and "Coraline," the dark, handmade curiosities of Selick have tended to leave...

Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022

It's seven years almost to day since the last episode of "Key & Peele" aired, but Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are once again riffing together.

They're sitting in a Toronto hotel the day before the premiere of Henry Selick's stop-motion-animation marvel "Wendell & Wild" at...

Sunday, Jul. 24, 2022

Jordan Peele 's UFO thriller "Nope" topped the North American charts in its first weekend in theaters with an estimated $44 million in ticket sales, Universal Pictures said Sunday. Though it doesn't come close to the $71 million debut of "Us," it is still significantly impressive for an original...

Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2022

A great debut in Hollywood can be a blessing and a curse. Once you knock it out of the park like Jordan Peele did with "Get Out," which captured the zeitgeist so perfectly within the framework of a greatly entertaining thriller, home runs become the standard, not the exception.

Now three...

Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2022

There's little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film. They tend to descend ominously and mysteriously, a little like an unknown object from above that casts an expanding, darkening shadow the closer it comes.

"Nope," the writer-director's third film, is...

Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

There's an urban legend that says if you repeat the name "Candyman" aloud five times in front of a mirror, you summon a hook-handed killer. After seeing Nia DaCosta's film of the same name, you'll never be tempted to do that. You might even not want anything sweet again. Heck, cancel Halloween...

Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021

"Candyman" was always more than a surface level horror film. The 1992 film dealt with class, race and trauma. But almost 30 years later, a new version in theaters Aug. 27 reclaims and recenters the narrative around the Black experience. 

The original film took the seeds of a Clive Barker...

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020

Jamie Foxx has won a plethora of major awards including an Oscar and Grammy. But after the African American Film Critics Association recognized him Wednesday night, the actor-singer called its honor just as special.

Foxx along with Eddie Murphy and Jordan Peele were among some of the...

Thursday, May. 16, 2019

Georgia and Hollywood are worlds away from one another, physically and culturally, but irresistible tax incentives have turned the state into a filming powerhouse dubbed "Hollywood of the South." Productions as big as Marvel Studios' superhero blockbusters and shows like "Stranger Things" and "...

Sunday, Mar. 24, 2019

Jordan Peele has done it again. Two years after the filmmaker's "Get Out" became a box-office sensation, his frightening follow-up, "Us," debuted with $70.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The opening, well above forecasts, had few parallels. It was the...

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