Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and the hair, makeup, and costume department heads of 'Nickel Boys' discuss collaborating to create the ...
Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.
In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys ...
Director RaMell Ross on adapting Colson Whitehead's novel of systematic racism and abuse into a highly subjective film.
There might not be anything else like RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys. Adapting the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead (best known to ...
For “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross asks his audience to inhabit the perspective of two Black teenagers at an abusive reform ...
unfettered despair and fear. Like a nightmare, there is always a sense that larger trouble is hidden just out of sight. It’s there where “Nickel Boys” will live: In the peripheral ...
The same can be said about Nickel Boys, a film that fiercely wears its heart and artistic intentions on its sleeve. And how rare that is, especially at a time when we collectively fear that cinema ...
I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves. It’s the narrative feature debut for ...