Tessa Thompson’s nails are not her own. They belong to Bianca, her singer-songwriter alter-ego in the film Creed II, she explains, as she waggles the extravagant, pink-polished talons at me from across the table. She wrapped filming on the follow-up to 2015’s Creed yes...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Back in the early 1990s, I had a weekly appointment to watch the sitcom “Martin.” Though Fox repeatedly experimented with the day and time the show aired, as it sought to reach our newly coveted demographic of a “young urban audience,” my friends, a...

Years ago, writer-director Dee Rees (“Mudbound,” “Pariah”) had tried her hand at adapting author Philip K. Dick with “Martian Times.” Although the project never came together, she established a strong working relationship the sci-fi writer’s daughter, producer Isa Hack...