Daniel Kaluuya worked so hard to transform into Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton for “Judas and the Black Messiah” that he doesn’t even remember filming some of the movie’s most powerful ...

In late 2019, a noteworthy film production set up shop in Cleveland. “Judas and the Black Messiah” – a Warner Bros. Pictures production hitting theaters and HBO Max on Feb. 12 – was shot at, among ...

Telling the true-life story of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), “Judas and the Black Messiah” leans on historical authenticity. That was important to director Shaka King, who ...

In Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the sound of the 1960s is an authentic and riveting one. As King tells the story of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton (played by Daniel ...

After a pretty dazzling debut last summer, BBC America brings back hard-luck detective Red Metcalfe in two more engrossing miniseries. Although U.S. nets are rife with "The Silence of the Lambs" and ...

The director Shaka King narrates a sequence featuring the actor opposite Jesse Plemons. By Mekado Murphy In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes ...

Local deejay and producer Bang Messiah has been a fixture on the local hip-hop scene for quite awhile. To put things in a better perspective, he has credits that go all the way back into the early ...