John David Washington

The Piano Lesson review – high-quality but low-impact work

By Leila Latif

Malcolm Washington makes his feature directorial debut with an ambitious adaptation of one of August Wilson’s most well-known plays.

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The first trailer for David O. Russell’s Amsterdam catches stars in a national mystery

By Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie, John David Washington, and Christian Bale lead as a trio of friends caught in a murder case.

Malcolm & Marie

By Charles Bramesco

John David Washington and Zendaya play out a tedious lovers’ tiff care of writer/director Sam Levinson.

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Watch Zendaya and John David Washington in the Malcolm & Marie trailer

By Charles Bramesco

They do a whole lot of talking and crying in the new Netflix drama from director Sam Levinson.

Tenet

By Adam Woodward

A stoppable force meets an infinitely movable object in Christopher Nolan’s continuum-shattering sci-fi thriller.

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John David Washington: ‘I’m better acquainted with heights now’

By Kambole Campbell

The star of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet revels in the toil of making an experimental mega blockbuster.

Everything we know about Christopher Nolan’s Tenet

By Charles Bramesco

All the latest intel on the director’s forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson.

Christopher Nolan returns with the first trailer for Tenet

By Charles Bramesco

Secret agents! Car chases! Time travel? The thinking person’s blockbuster director is back...

Monsters and Men

By Katherine McLaughlin

John David Washington is a cop struggling to come to terms with systematic racism in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s debut feature.

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How BlacKkKlansman joins the dots between our racist past and present

By Kambole Campbell

Like Do the Right Thing and Bamboozled before it, Spike Lee’s film is a wake up call to white America.

How Spike Lee bends the truth to tackle contemporary racism

By Tom Bond

In BlacKkKlansman, the director dramatises real-life events in order to make his point.

BlacKkKlansman

By Adam Woodward

A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s fiery, fiercely funny takedown of institutional racism.

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BlacKkKlansman – first look review

By Adam Woodward

Spike Lee’s latest interrogation of racism in America is his most entertaining and thought-provoking film in years.

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