Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality ...
Ross’s experimental and fiercely empathetic sensibilities are obvious in Nickel Boys’ first-person point of view style.
Written by Ally Abruscato. Graphic by Anna Porter. Among the many books I was lucky enough to receive for Christmas, “The Nickel Boys” became my first completed book of 2025. This Pulitzer Prize ...
The early scenes do a good job of establishing Elwood’s character. He is a naive and hopeful teenager who wants to aid the civil rights movement and get a good education. He is kind to a fault and ...
“Nickel Boys,’’ has earned two Oscar nominations – for best picture and adapted screen-play. The movie is based on Colson ...
"Nickel Boys," adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer winning novel, is gripping and urgent and topical — even though it's set mostly in the 1960s — and director RaMell Ross' stroke of genius was ...
Bennett, who wrote and directed the film, will be in attendance for a screening on Wednesday, February 5, at Violet Crown.