Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Jan. 11-17 include rapper-actor LL Cool J, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and ...

Netflix has an impressive lineup of brand-new original series premiering in the new year. Here are ten standouts to add to ...

The director joined IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit for a live event where he discussed his directorial debut following a 35mm screening. “It’s a trip to see it on the big screen again,” Van Peebles ...

Influential screenwriter and music journalist Barry Michael Cooper died last month at age 66, and there’s no better way to honor his impact on pop culture than catching his debut movie, New Jack City ...

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America. Sign up for Checks and Balance. James Bennet, our ...

Is New Jack City getting a remake? The 1991 crime drama is certainly ripe for one, especially in our reboot-riddled day and age — after all, Twisters just dropped, there is an upcoming Beetlejuice ...

The San Francisco Black Film Festival has announced the participation of acclaimed filmmaker and actor Mario Van Peebles in its 2024 edition. Van Peebles will present three of his powerful films over ...

In a recent episode of Hard Knock Radio, former Black Panther Tureka Lewis and actor-director Mario Van Peebles engaged in a compelling dialogue about the legacy and representation of the Black ...

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D engaged with actor-filmmaker Mario Van Peebles and David Roach, who heads the Oakland International Film Festival, in a wide-ranging discussion about film and ...

Mario Van Peebles has been tapped to direct “That’ll Be the Day,” the story of how Buddy Holly and other musicians of the late 1950s helped give birth to rock ‘n’ roll and influence the wider societal ...