Wednesday, May. 6, 2020

Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis wandered along the Seine and felt free. Louis Armstrong sought refuge from the Jim Crow American South at the Hôtel Alba Opéra. Dancer Josephine Baker wowed audiences at the Folies Bergère before joining the French Resistance during World War II.

For African...

Wednesday, May. 6, 2020

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. Of the 60 nominations, PBS and HBO lead with 11 and seven, respectively, followed by Netflix (five), Amazon (three), and...

Tuesday, May. 5, 2020

In the backstage hallways of Washington D.C.'s Capital One Arena, Michelle Obama walks arm-in-arm with her husband, Barack Obama. She has just finished the third stop on what would be a 34-city book tour of such unprecedented scale that it almost resembled a Beyoncé concert tour. 

Nadia...

Friday, May. 1, 2020

Terry Donahue, the subject of the new Netflix documentary " A Secret Love," was a catcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Yes, kind of like Geena Davis' character Dottie Hinson from Penny Marshall's "A League of Their Own." She wore those skirts, she went to charm school...

Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2020

Ryan Murphy has a clear-eyed fascination with the 20th-century Hollywood dream machine, so adroit at making stars and breaking the hearts of those who didn't fit the mold. Among the casualties: Anna May Wong and Hattie McDaniel, gifted actresses of color consigned to play stereotypes, and...

Monday, Apr. 27, 2020

A documentary portrait of Michelle Obama titled "Becoming" will premiere on Netflix next week, the streaming company announced Monday.

The film, described as "an intimate look into the life of former first lady Michelle Obama" chronicles her 34-city book tour in 2018-2019 for her best-...

Thursday, Apr. 23, 2020

The big-budget action thriller "Extraction" belongs, in many ways, to another world. 

It's set in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. It's in this urban sea of people and traffic that Chris Hemsworth's battle-scarred mercenary engages in...

Thursday, Apr. 23, 2020

While deeply familiar as a documentary filmmaker with this particular protagonist and related subject matter, Greg Barker entered new territory when again visiting the life of United Nations diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello--this time resulting in the director’s first narrative feature, ...

Tuesday, Apr. 21, 2020

Netflix picked up nearly 16 million global subscribers during the first three months of the year, helping cement its status as one of the world's most essential services in times of isolation or crisis.

The quarter spanned the beginning of stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and around the...

Thursday, Apr. 16, 2020

The United Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello has been described as a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy, which sounds like a compelling enough pitch for a film on its own. 

The Brazilian-born de Mello spent 34 years at the U.N. during which he was involved in clearing land...

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