Dubuque’s library plans a free showing of a recent Oscar-nominated film. RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys" will be screened from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 12, at Carnegie-Stout Public Library, 360 W. 11th ...

I can see the future. And it’s full of pals helping pals.” *** Just because you bury something doesn’t mean it is gone. It is simply out of sight. It is aggressively dismissed. It is forcibly ...

The Writers Guild of America will host the 78th annual Writers Guild Awards March 8, 2026, in New York City and Los Angeles.

Look, I’ll shout out Black filmmakers all day, every day. Nia DaCosta, Steve McQueen, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Antoine ...

Like its historical counterpart, Nickel operates as a front for the coercion of unpaid labour from the boys detained there, who are subject to beatings, rapes and psychological torture ...

RaMell Ross on the Oscar-nominated “Nickel Boys” and why the film's impact matters more to him than trophies. “Nickel Boys” may not have taken home an Oscar last night, but for director ...

While awards may be frivolous, Nickel Boys is nevertheless remarkable. Wilson plays Turner, a teenager with an abundance of effortless charm despite living in the hellish reform school Nickel Academy.

Now, with Nickel Boys, his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, he has done something even more audacious. His reimagining of the novel wrestles with the weight of history in ...

NEW YORK – “Nickel Boys” is unlike any movie you’ll see this year. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the lyrical drama follows two Black teens in the 1960s ...

The film is based on Colson Whitehead’s 2020 novel about two boys who become friends at a reform school and help each other endure the brutal abuse by the wardens. The fictitious Nickel is based ...

For years, the school’s dark history remained largely unknown, until it garnered national attention upon the release of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys.