Sentences with phrase «brilliant black writers»

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was pitched to an evangelical audience, it would go like this: Academy Award nominee Darren Aronofsky, the brilliant writer - director who gave us The Fighter, Black Swan and The...

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

Expect that and more from the writer / director's latest stinging triumph «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» a bleak, all - out brilliant pitch - black comedy that taps the raw nerve of America's revenge - fueled zeitgeist with its unpredictable narrative about how a mom's quest to avenge her murdered daughter upends a town.

The family includes ace mechanics, aspiring comic book artists, amateur scientists (because no one will hire a black female astronomer, no matter how brilliant), and writers, including Uncle George, editor and publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide, based on the real Negro Motorist Green Book.

Best known for her roles in John Waters» movies — my favorite of which is Female Trouble — Cookie Mueller was also a brilliant writer, authoring Ask Doctor Mueller, How to Get Rid of Pimples, the novella Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, and her memoir Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.