Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.
The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we don’t know the women who were doing the groundwork, it’s not the full truth.” ...
Nickel Boys. It's out in select theatres today. CBC's Jackson Weaver joins me now.
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than 100 ...
My hope for 2025 is that all children, especially those living in the hardest-to-reach communities, can grow up protected ...
When filmmaker RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s harrowing 2019 novel about two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida, he ...
Given this is a tough story tied to the atrocities committed at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where 55 bodies of ...
The Nickel Boys” is a fact-based drama of two incarcerated and abused Black teenage boys in 1960s segregated Florida, based ...
For “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross asks his audience to inhabit the perspective of two Black teenagers at an abusive reform ...
The entire film is shot from the perspectives of the protagonists, two teenage Black boys sent to a brutal, segregated reform ...
His narrative debut, it’s based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Ross, 42, said in a recent Zoom interview, Ellis-Taylor was his “number one pick” as he set out to cast ...
In his honor, a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support his 3-month-old daughter, Jolie Rose Whitehead. As of Monday, Dec. 23, the campaign had raised over $48,000. In the wake of his death, ...