Don't expect Will Smith to join the awards lineup next year. Whatever's wrong with "Emancipation," starting this week on Apple TV+, the film's artistic shortcomings bear the extra weight of the public ...

Just a few years after being embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal in history, the 'Emancipation' producer sparked controversy when he brandished a graphic photo of a former slave at the film’s ...

The actress talks about what it’s like to star in her first big-budget movie and how she advocated to embolden her character’s voice in the Apple film. By Esther Zuckerman Charmaine Bingwa had just ...

OLD FORT - Bob Gillmor can say, from personal experience, that actor Will Smith is a nice guy. Gillmor met Smith when he built cannons for the 2022 historical thriller “Emancipation,” coproduced by ...

It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua's "Emancipation," starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie. Despite the ...

Movies about slavery are considered 'trauma porn' by many audiences these days, particularly African American ones. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) was a powerful look at the minutiae of the ...