The story of RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys," laced with the cruelties of the Jim Crow-era South, has commonalities with films ...

The historical drama follows two young men sent to a brutal reform school in Florida during Jim Crow. We spoke to the fellas about filming in first person and the horrors of the 1960s. Brandon Wilson ...

Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson are the stars of Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ bold and brilliant adaptation of Colson Whitehead ...

The film is told from a different perspective – point of view – with actors staring into the camera to tell the story of an ...

NB_FP_4580 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as Hattie and Ethan Herisse as Elwood in director RaMell Ross’s NICKEL BOYS, from ...

This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys is an incredible film adapted from the novel by Colson Whitehead. The film follows two teenagers at ...

Fiction offers more flexibility. For Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, the actors who play two of the boys at the academy, Ross’s approach was understandable. “He was very confident,” Wilson ...

Actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson sometimes were asked to wear a camera rig while delivering their lines, to create the ...

Set in Tallahassee, Florida, during the Jim Crow era of 1962, the film tells the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young African-American boy wrongly accused of car theft and sent to ...

Right: Ethan Herisse as Elwood and Brandon Wilson as Turner. Courtesy of Orion Pictures (2) Nickel Boys could change the way we see faces onscreen. “That’s the craziest thing about the movie ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross doesn't just interpret Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel about a racist, nightmarish boys' ...