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I am a little late to the game in terms of catching up with A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, which slowly expanded into a few more theaters this weekend and will be going wider in the next few weeks. Well, better late than never, but this is a movie I urge you to see, and like many who will be discovering it…

Joe Talbot won the Best Director prize at January's Sundance Film Festival for his debut feature The Last Black Man in San Francisco. But, as he explained when I sat down with him and his lead actor Jimmie Fails, on whom the film's story is based, it took a village. A love letter to the titular city, the film deals…

As gentrification runs rampant across the country, it seems that San Francisco is one of the main victims with high rises, slow-drip coffee stands, tech startups, yoga studios, and cafes of the juice stand variety. Joe Talbot’s The Last Black Man In San Francisco explores one man’s journey to reclaim his hometown and…

“When everybody was saying ‘No’ this story does not have an audience, you, Sundance and the people who have seen this film have proven that there is an audience for this film, and I thank you!” beamed Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu after accepting the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize for her death penalty drama Clemen…