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In spring 2019, “Fast Color” had rave reviews, Oscar-nominated “La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz — and it seemed to be doomed. It took a while for the film to find distribution; Lionsgate’s ...

Where do we find entertainment these days? On our laptops and in our living rooms. The streaming options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. So, in this weekly feature, I review a ...

Fast Color is a movie about a superhero, but it doesn't seem quite right to call it a "superhero movie," because of what that term usually means. The film is about climate change and addiction and ...

Most superhero movies are based on some sort of source material. So it makes sense to wonder whether the new movie Fast Color could be based on an existing comic, graphic novel, or book, even though ...

On one level, the failure of “Fast Color” is a simple story: After its world premiere at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, Julia Hart‘s sci-fi drama received strong reviews but struggled to find ...

No one makes superhero movies anymore unless they’re part of a cinematic universe, or at least have the potential to be. Even the most obscure comic book adaptations often come weighted with the ...

Fast Color, co-written and directed by Julia Hart, was introduced to audiences at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint and Saniyya Sidney as ...

It’s rare that you see a Black girl leading a major network show, but Saniyya Sidney is doing just that. The star of Fox’s The Passage, a TV adaptation of the bestselling trilogy centered on a deadly ...