Kasi Lemmons

'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' Pays Due Respect to a Musical GOAT

Directed by Kasi Lemmons

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2022

It's 1994. Seventy-eight million people are tuning in to watch the American Music Awards, unaware that they are about to witness one of the...

Here's the First Trailer for Whitney Houston Biopic 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody'

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2022

Whitney Houston is the subject of forthcoming biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and we now have our first trailer for the Kasi Lemmons-di...

​The Oscar Nominees for Best Director Are All Male Again and Twitter Isn't Having It

PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2020

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and in a sadly predictable turn of events, the Best Director category featured five male...

Julia Roberts Was Once Suggested to Play Harriet Tubman in a Biopic

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2019

Beloved civil activist and slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman is finally having her story told on the big screen thanks to Kasi Lemmons's...

The Caveman's Valentine

Kasi Lemmons

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"The Caveman's Valentine" is a noisy, volatile thriller, more character-driven than most, dominated by a high decibel performance by Samuel...

Black Nativity

Kasi Lemmons

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2013

'Tis the season for feel-good family fare, and Black Nativity — despite its weak and corny script — is exactly that. Directed b...

Talk To Me

Kasi Lemmons

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2007

Talk to Me is a fine film but its home release follows the same unfortunate pattern of other historically based biopics, leaving you hungry...

Talk To Me

Kasi Lemmons

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2007

Talk To Me begins with the same old promise of a fresh (albeit smoky) new voice with vitality ready to shake up the establishment but ends...