Various plot mechanics, some of them heavy-handed, lead to a resolution that predictably shows how little race ultimately matters, although “Black or White” never panders easily to sentiments, creating characters riddled with flaws but likeable all the In writer-director Mike Binder's uneven but provocative "Black or White," Costner plays a grandfather for the first time … Read more
"Black or White" is a movie with a message. It's based on actual events that occurred in the life of the film's writer and director, Mike Binder, a native of Detroit. "Black or White" is a movie with a message. It's based on actual events that occurred in the life of the film's writer and … Read more
That may or may not be the reason he decided to make Black orWhite, his new film about what happens when a biracial granddaughter gets torn between the white family she does know and the Black family she should know. This weekend, Kevin Costner stars as a grieving widower fighting for custody of his granddaughter … Read more
The movie overstacks the deck by lavishing the alcoholic white lawyer with luxury while placing the decent, respectable black matriarch's home across the street from a crack den. But most of the time the characters manage to This weekend, Kevin Costner stars as a grieving widower fighting for custody of his granddaughter opposite Octavia Spencer … Read more
It is not an easy job to steal the show from two Oscar-winning actors. But by all accounts, that's what Jillian Estell, the young lady at the center of "Black or White" (which also stars Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer), does in her new film. And she Kevin Costner sidles into a West Hollywood hotel … Read more