Theater video tags: movie trailer

Watch the trailer for The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, a film adaptation of the 2013 best-selling novel of the same name by Edward Kelsey Moore. Directed by Tina Mabry, and starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan, and Uzo Aduba, the film follows three lifelong best friends through life’s challenges and joys over four decades.

Directed and cowritten by Ethan Hawke, Wildcat is a film based on the short stories and letters of Flannery O’Connor and explores both her characters and her life. Starring Maya Hawke and Laura Linney, the film dramatizes some of O’Connor’s most famous short stories and delves into the author’s craft and faith.

“I remember what’s important and I make up the rest. That’s what storytelling is all about.” This HBO Original documentary takes a look at the life of legendary poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. The award-winning film is directed and written by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, and includes readings by executive producer Taraji P. Henson.

American Fiction is a film adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, a satire about a frustrated Black author and professor who uses a pen name to write a successful book playing into racial stereotypes and tropes. Directed by Cord Jefferson, the film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.