EAST RUTHERFORD - Dru Phillips is every bit of a 6-foot-4 and 230-pound menace between the lines, and because of that, there is not anyone in the NFL from whom he would back down. OK, so here's the ...

History is a matter of perspective. "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), ...

From its opening scene with closeups of fruit hanging high up in a tree, cigarette smoke floating through the air and hands shuffling cards, “Nickel Boys” makes you feel like you’re taking a peek into ...

“Nickel Boys” hits theaters this week after winning three of the eight honorary awards announced by the African-American Film Critics Association last month. The film is a dramatic adaptation of ...

A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Part of the magic of filmed storytelling is accepting that something can be from someone’s point of view and yet also from a distance. Using the ...

Novel adaptations are a dime-a-dozen in modern cinema, although, every now and then, one seems to catch the eye thanks to many declaring the source material 'unadaptable'. Colson Whitehead's novel The ...

Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).