RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a ...

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has risen to fame with roles that make ignored Black female voices heard, her role in Nickel Boys is no exception.

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...

Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” (itself inspired by real-life stories of Florida’s now-closed Dozier School for Boys), Ross’ film sounds on the ...

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...

Nickel Boys. It's out in select theatres today. CBC's Jackson Weaver joins me now.

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American filmmaker RaMell Ross first read Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in the not-too-distant past of Jim Crow South about two Black boys in a Florida reform ...