Forest Whitaker is having a great year. He produced Ryan Coogler’s breakout hit “Fruitvale Station,” he is getting Oscar buzz for his performance in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” and his latest film ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Langston Hughes conceived of Black Nativity in the 1960s as a euphoric stage musical version of the birth of Jesus with a black cast. The show is still regularly performed as written, but ...

has its heart in the right place, but considering its origins (Langston Hughes’ gospel play from 1961) and terrific cast, the film doesn’t rise to the heights we might have hoped for. Writer-director ...

You'd have to be pretty full of seasonal humbug to resist this spirited screen homage to Langston Hughes's "gospel song play" which was first performed off-Broadway in 1961, and has since become a ...

For a while there, it looked like director Kasi Lemmons was going to score Samuel L Jackson for one of the main roles in her latest, Black Nativity. But he never made a deal and with the casting on ...