Movies

In an Oscar year when it seems more than ever we missed out on the recognition of fantastic black filmmakers, it's more than appropriate to take some time to watch Justin Simien's excellent Dear White People. But does it pass Tan's movie test? Find out here.

The latest venture for Dame Dash is into the world of DIY, independent filmmaking. No newbie to the movie scene -- as cult classics like State Property and Paid in Full serve as evidence of Dash's potential -- he returns to the screen with a new film, 'Loisaidas.'

It’s that time again—get ready to make your Netflix Instant queues even longer because there’s a whole bunch of new stuff hitting the streaming service in March. From new Netflix Original series like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Bloodline, to favorites like How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Mad Men Season 7, there’s plenty of great titles to look forward to in the coming weeks. Read on for your guide to all the new titles heading to Netflix Instant in March.

This week, Focus Features will release, at long last, the first installment of their 'Fifty Shades' trilogy of feature films based on the bestselling novels by E L James. Call us plebs, but we figured that, before we went to see the movie ('cause you know we're going to), we ought to see what the book was all about. Check out our results, below.

If you watched the Grammy Awards last night, then you likely saw a commercial for the N.W.A. biopic 'Straight Outta Compton.' The official trailer for the film can be summed up in one word: promising.

Kid Cudi, who stars in the new film, 'James White,' is sounding off about a gay kissing scene that was deleted from the project.

Every year, when the Oscar nominations are announced, a considerable amount of time is spent debating who was snubbed. But for every film that was expecting to get nominated and didn't, there's a film that no one was expecting to get nominated and did. This is the story of those films. The movies you'll look back on and wonder exactly how the heck it ever got nominated for an Oscar.

2014 is over. (Or, nearly enough to call it so.) But movies never stop. Here are fifteen movies that we're looking forward to seeing in the next year.

It's the end of December, and that means one thing above all others: it's time to unpack everything that happened in the last eleven-and-a-half months and pack it all into tiny lists!

This is it. This is the end. (Not to be confused with one of my favorite films of 2013.) These are the best of the best... at least in my humble opinion. There are many opinions out there, equally valid, which is what makes this fun, right? Anyway, these are mine.