“Fast Color” is a post-apocalyptic superhero movie that ranks as one of the most original pictures of the year. Beyond the novelty of having three supernaturally-empowered African-American women (Gugu ...

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Most people probably wouldn't mention the sci-fi family drama Fast Color if they're asked to list all the superhero films that came out in 2018. Now, according to Deadline, Amazon Studios is planning ...

Fast Color is a movie about a superhero, but it doesn't seem quite right to call it a "superhero movie," because of what that term usually means. The film is about climate change and addiction and ...

Dion Warren is a precocious 7-year-old who loves action figures, hungers for friendship, and doesn’t quite fit in at his new school, no matter how hard he tries. He’s the light of his mother Nicole’s ...

Where do we find entertainment these days? On our laptops and in our living rooms. The streaming options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. So, in this weekly feature, I review a ...

A hyper-kinetic Gugu Mbatha-Raw races through an allegorical sci-fi drama that can't quite transcend its lovely empowerment thesis. Technically, this is a story about generations of women. While Ruth ...

Fast Color, co-written and directed by Julia Hart, was introduced to audiences at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint and Saniyya Sidney as ...

It’s rare that you see a Black girl leading a major network show, but Saniyya Sidney is doing just that. The star of Fox’s The Passage, a TV adaptation of the bestselling trilogy centered on a deadly ...

A hyper-kinetic Gugu Mbatha-Raw races through an allegorical sci-fi drama that can't quite transcend its lovely empowerment thesis. Technically, this is a story about generations of women. While Ruth ...