In Tallahassee, which has a big chapter in the Civil Rights Movement (Google “Tallahassee Bus Boycotts” to learn more), the ...

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.

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early ...

She fills in the other half once again in the just-released Nickel Boys, Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 best-seller in which Ellis-Taylor plays the grandmother of a Black teen ...

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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 ...

The confident and provocative film offers style over connection. By Pippa Bailey It is 40 minutes into Nickel Boys, and we finally get to see our protagonist’s face. Until then, we have glimpsed ...

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