Windrush Caribbean Film Awards 2023: Who won what on the night?
Windrush Caribbean Film Awards 2023 was all about celebrating legacy as Caribbean personalities, VIPs and filmmakers converged at…
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A Letter To Black Men short film by Kiosa Sukami is a must-watch
A Letter To Black Men is a 20-min short film that will leave your heart heavy at the…
S.O.U.L Film Festival 2022 links with American Black film festival veterans
S.O.U.L Film Festival joins forces with the American Black Film Festival for its 2022 run of celebrating the…
Will Packer on ‘Beast’ and why he chose to cast a dark-skinned Black family
Will Packer: “This idea of a Black father and Black daughters at the centre of the movie Beast…
Nope film review: A critique on society’s obsession with content for views?
Society’s relentless obsession with capturing ‘content’ is the real monster in Jordan Peele’s latest horror film, Nope. Oscar-winning…
What does the new trailer for Jordan Peele’s Nope tell us about the film?
The final trailer for Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror film Nope is here. It’s scary, dramatic and nope, we…
“Film is such a passion of mine I never turn off”: Jennifer G. Robinson
Jennifer G. Robinson, Director of Women of the Lens film festival, talks exclusively to Melan Magazine about what…
Women Of The Lens Film 2022 review: “I Am More Than My Hair”
Director Alyscia Cunningham’s film I Am More Than My Hair introduces us to the magnificently bald women challenging…
Celebrating Black women filmmakers: Women Of The Lens Festival 2022
The annual Women Of The Lens Film Festival returns with an exciting programme of events created specifically to…
Nollywood to the world: What’s good on Netflix Nigeria right now
Comedies, movies, documentaries and thrillers; here’s the Melan Magazine roundup of what to watch on Netflix Nigeria right…
9 lessons from the final series of Insecure that you should take into 2022
As Insecure, the multi-award-winning series which has captivated so many of us since 2016 comes to an end,…
What you need to know about The Milkman film as it premieres in the UK!
An unflinching exploration of the human cost of the religious extremism sweeping across the African continent is the…
7 ways to remember the legacy of pioneering filmmaker Menelik Shabazz
With the news that Black British filmmaking legend Menelik Shabazz passed away on 28 June, we reflect on…
Whatever you do, don’t say his name! First look images of Candyman film
This autumn, cult classic Candyman returns to theatres to scare a whole new generation of horror fans and…
All-star cast takes on upcoming horror-satire film set in the 80s: Bad Hair
Kelly Rowland, Vanessa Williams, and Usher are just some of the all-star cast starring in Bad Hair, a…