Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022

Netflix could be a dominant force at next month's NAACP Image Awards.

The streaming giant on Tuesday emerged with a leading 52 nominations including the film "The Harder They Fall." The movie — featuring a large starry cast including Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba and LaKeith...

Monday, Jan. 17, 2022

“The Harder They Fall” and “King Richard” topped the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards with four wins apiece. “The Harder They Fall” took honors for Best Picture, Ensemble, Director (Jeymes Samuel) and Music (Samuel, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z). "King Richard" won for Best Actor (...

Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021

The Harder They Fall headlined the African American Film Critics Association’s annual list of the top 10 films of the year.  The film, directed by Jeymes Samuel, and produced by rap mogul Jay-Z, stars Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz and LaKeith Stanfield portraying...

Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021

For a cinematographer who’s had a hand in significant technological breakthroughs that have facilitated ambitious storytelling--in his Emmy-winning turn on the hit streaming series The Mandalorian, for example, and now on the recently released feature Dune (Warner Bros.)--Greig...

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021

If you had any doubt that Jeymes Samuel, the director of "The Harder They Fall" and the British musician known as the Bullits, loves Westerns, then you haven't heard him sing Dean Martin's "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from John Ford's "Rio Bravo."

"When Dean Martin pops up in a movie, you...

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021

These. People. Existed.

Those three words — and that very emphatic punctuation — appear onscreen at the beginning of "The Harder They Fall," setting a definitive tone for this stylish and bold new Western by Jeymes Samuel. 

Yes, Samuel is saying, his storyline is fictional, though...

Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

Movies from 77 countries will screen at the 2021 London Film Festival, as Britain’s leading cinema showcase welcomes mass audiences back to movie theaters after a pandemic-disrupted year.

The festival program, announced Tuesday, includes 158 features, down from 225 during its last pre-...

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