On this edition of Your Call, University of Chicago cinema professor Allyson Nadia Field discusses her new book, Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History. Tracing the ...
It’s always difficult to pan a movie that features good actors, important issues, and noble intentions. But In My Country, a romantic drama about two journalists covering the Truth and Reconciliation ...
Media headlines are full of bad news about LGBTQ+ people across the African continent these days. They are insulted by public officials, attacked and killed by police and vigilantes, and denied access ...
Carrie Mae Weems, “I Looked and Looked but Failed to See What So Terrified You (Louisiana Project series)” (2003), digital prints (diptych), 35 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (all images by the author for ...
Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s mastery of the short story form has now consolidated alongside her novel writing. Ngwenya has naturally handled the short story and novel with an illuminating ...
Netflix is at Cape Town’s MIP Africa event this week, and has unveiled a South African version of reality show Love Never Lies and a batch of feature films to delegates in attendance. Netflix’s VP of ...