Sixty years on, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the wider United States government are still concealing records related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It was director Oliver Stone’s“JFK” in 1991 that spurred the passage of the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act a year later. Millions of files were…

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for David Fincher’s film “The Killer” marks the fifth time that the director has collaborated with the two composers. Their score for Fincher’s 2011 film “The Social Network” earned them an Academy Award. Both Reznor, long known for his work with Nine Inch Nails…

The longest strike in the history of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) ended in a victory for the union on November 9. Artists and performers were on strike for 118 days and went on strike on July 14 while the Writers…

Described by Life magazine in March 1948, Joe Majczek was convicted in 1933 of killing a police officer in a “tavern holdup.” The young Chicagoan had a prior police record and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. “A Chicago Times reporter named James McGuire read a small newspaper notice…

The Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a talent agency that dominates Hollywood, represented Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. But a little over a week after Hamas attacked an Israeli music festival near the Gaza border, Sorkin left CAA for its rival William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. The reason for Sorkin’s departure was…

The private detective story of “Shaft” was not much different than many of the 1940s crime films that defined the noir genre. Yet Gordon Parks’ second studio picture was groundbreaking because it showed that a Black man could be Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade too. Black actor Richard Roundtree, who…

After the world premiere at Cannes Film Festival in May, Lily Gladstone, an Indigenous actress who plays Mollie Burkhart, praised director Martin Scorsese for turning the “most golden lens” on the 1920s “Reign of Terror” against the Osage Nation. “Who else is going to challenge people to challenge their own…

The Film That Barry Jenkins Made After Winning An Oscar For ‘Moonlight’ — This article is in response to Counter Art’s Film prompt for October 2023. Before director, producer, and screenwriter Barry Jenkins garnered widespread recognition for his Academy Award-winning film Moonlight (2016), he planned to adapt James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk. However, Jenkins was terrified. Baldwin’s literary work…

In July, the news media reported that Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and other companies were prepared to “break” the Writers Guild of America (WGA) during their strike. “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their…