Xposé
Xposé is the place for news, views and critical writing from The New Black Film Collective and allies.
Mr Loverman
Mr Loverman (2024), an eight-part adaptation of Booker Prize winning novelist Bernardine Evaresto’s work of the same name, follows 75-year-old Barrington Walker, played by Lennie James, as he steps out of the closet and into a public relationship with Ariyon Bakare’s Morris, his best friend and clandestine lover of over 50 years…
Ancestral Visions of the Future (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)
A stark and explicit portrayal of life in a post-colonial Lesotho village, this film is a deeply personal meditation on memory, trauma, and heritage…
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (2025) is a feature length continuation of the exhibition/art installation of the same name, which was self described as “a conceptual news program that blurs the lines between art, reporting, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.”.…
Minimals in a Titanic World (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)
Minimals in a Titanic World (2025) follows Anita, a young grief stricken woman. She’s trying to get through her day to day. All while doing her best to make sure her emotions are in check so she doesn’t end up back in prison…
Dreamers (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) (Berlinale)
A beautifully tragic love story between two women in a detention centre, highlighting the struggles of immigrants, especially those ostracised for their sexuality…
Khartoum (BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL)
A refreshing documentary, Khartoum (2025) uses its 80-minute running time to highlight hope over horror and centre the experiences of five individuals…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is already a timeless comedy, but the latest production elevates it into something truly special…
Captain America: Brave New World
“I’m a wartime president,” snarls newly elected President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) in Julius Onah’s Captain America: Brave New World (2025), the 35th entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)…
Black Track: What to Watch in London this Week
What’s on in London this week? Check out what’s screening at BFI Southbank, The Prince Charles Cinema, The Garden Cinema, The Rio Cinema and more…
Black Track: What to Watch in London this Week
What’s on in London this week? Check out what’s screening at BFI Southbank, The Prince Charles Cinema, The Garden Cinema, The Rio Cinema and more…
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) is a gripping, intense, and deeply thought-provoking documentary that delves into the 1961 Congolese coup d’état.
The Fire Inside (PictureEast FILM FESTIVAL 2025)
The Fire Inside captures the resilience of Flint, Michigan, through Clarissa ‘T-Rex’ Shields’ journey to London 2012 Olympic boxing glory…
The Lost Cinemas (PictureEast FILM FESTIVAL 2025)
East London has always been a place of stories — not just the ones we tell, but the ones we share and experience together…
The Wild Robot (PictureEast FILM FESTIVAL 2025)
Lupita Nyong’o terrifically anchors The Wild Robot in which she plays an empathetic robot tasked with raising an orphaned duckling while also navigating her new life…
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (PictureEast FILM FESTIVAL 2025)
One can be forgiven for taking Rungano Nyoni’s dramady as simply a tale of a family covering the crimes of the protagonists’ (Susan Chardy) uncle. However there is so much more in the tale than this…
Hard Truths (PictureEast FILM FESTIVAL 2025)
Amidst the strings of composer Gary Yershon’s gentle melody lies Hard Truths, Mike Leigh’s first film since Peterloo (2018)…
Magazine Dreams
In Elijah Bynum’s debut, Hot Summer Nights (2017), the story is narrated by a kid who doesn’t appear in the movie until the very end and townspeople share their takes directly to the camera.
RaMell Ross Interview
Nickel Boys (2024) is the searing debut feature fiction film of RaMell Ross. After his documentary Hale County, This Morning, This Evening which earned him a Peabody Award and a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards, Ross, in collaboration with Plan B Entertainment and Orion Pictures, has adapted the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning novel penned by Colson Whitehead
