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 room at precisely noon. After making about 50 films and winning two Oscars (for Dances With Wolves, the movie he directed and produced a quarter-century ago), he knows
"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.
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
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