Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Denzel Washington has been named the recipient of the 2019 American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, the organization announced Friday. The star of “Training Day,” “Fences,” “Malcolm X” among ...

The American Film Institute on Wednesday unveiled its picks for the year’s 10 best films, along with its choices for the year's 10 best television programs. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, ...

AFI Docs has raised the curtain on its 2019 slate — 68% of which are films produced by women and nearly half that feature a female helmer. The lineup features 72 documentaries from 17 countries, ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

Terrence Malick, Alex Gibney Films Join AFI Fest 2019 Lineup Terrence Malick's historical drama 'A Hidden Life' and Alex Gibney's 'Citizen K' have been added to the AFI Fest 2019 lineup as the ...

Hollywood legend Denzel Washington was honored for his decades-long contribution to the arts on June 6, 2019 at the 2019 AFI Life Achievement Awards. Cicely Tyson, Issa Rae, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay ...

The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the films that will play in the New Auteurs, Cinema's Legacy, Midnight, Shorts and AFI Conservatory Showcase sections at AFI FEST 2019 presented by ...

Director Melina Matsoukas graduated from the American Film Institute in 2005. Crime thriller “Queen & Slim” will have its world premiere on the opening night of AFI FEST 2019. The movie is the feature ...

The world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ “Queen & Slim” will kick off AFI Fest 2019 as the opening night gala, the institute announced today. Written by Emmy winner Lena Waithe, “Queen ...

The AFI Fest has been rolling out its 2019 slate for months — since announcing Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim as its opening-night film in August — and now we have the full lineup. Check it out below.