movies
![The new ‘Candyman’, like the black horror genre in general, is having an identity crisis](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Copy-of-Backgrounds-1.png)
The new ‘Candyman’, like the black horror genre in general, is having an identity crisis
Kemi Alemoru
![Janicza Bravo on how her stripper road-trip comedy <i>Zola</i> takes you on an unsettling unexpected journey](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/body.png)
Janicza Bravo on how her stripper road-trip comedy Zola takes you on an unsettling unexpected journey
Kemi Alemoru
![What everyone got wrong about Cuties, the black Muslim coming-of-age Netflix film accused of hypersexualisation](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200511-1-1100.jpg)
What everyone got wrong about Cuties, the black Muslim coming-of-age Netflix film accused of hypersexualisation
Jennifer Padjemi
![‘Us’ is a landmark for horror as a genre](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Us-6-Lupita-and-Kids.jpg)
‘Us’ is a landmark for horror as a genre
Nic Crosara
![Kiki Layne was only meant to be helping a friend audition when she landed If Beale Street Could Talk](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/beale-street-could-talk.jpg)
Kiki Layne was only meant to be helping a friend audition when she landed If Beale Street Could…
Jessica Cole
![‘Nappily Ever After’ review: relatable, but not revolutionary](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/02-nappily-ever-after.w1200.h630.jpg)
‘Nappily Ever After’ review: relatable, but not revolutionary
Miranda Thomas
We interviewed Jennifer Yuh Nelson, director of The Darkest Minds
Mariel NO
![A queer black woman director might walk away with an Oscar this February](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/steve-dietl-dee-rees-mudbound-netflix.jpg.640x476_q100.jpg)