Every year around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, I get annoyed. I love that we celebrate the life and work of Dr. King, but I hate that his image is reduced into something that it wasn’t. He becomes cuddly Dr. King, a representative for peace and love that never made any white person uncomfortable. America was racist, Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and racism was over. That kind of childish view is why a documentary like Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI is so essential. It shows King as a political actor working …

Fans of the output from Fox Searchlight can breathe another sigh of relief. One big concern when Disney purchased 20th Century Fox—aside from the thousands of employees losing their jobs—was what Disney would do with the Fox Searchlight label. To put it bluntly, Disney does not make the kinds of movies that Fox Searchlight makes. The Fox subdivision has earned a reputation for producing challenging, complicated films with admittedly limited appeal—they’re not in the business of making Big Macs. Disney has asserted that it doesn’t intend on altering or involving itself intimately n Fox Searchlight’…

The Irishman director Martin Scorsese rejects the claim that his films do not feature prominent roles for women at a recent film festival.