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 opposite Octavia Spencer in "Black or White," Jon Favreau's crowd-favorite movie "Chef" is available to stream on Netflix, and the Seattle Seahawks battle
Selma” wasn't the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year. “Black or White” is a frank, touching and very well-acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of “blackness” and “the
The little girl is adorable, and two sides of the family are fighting over her in “Black or White.” On one side there's the newly widowed maternal grandfather (Kevin Costner), who raised the girl all her life. On the other, there's the paternal
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