My philosophy with fiction is that every story is a horror story until it isn’t. Horror as a genre term is often misunderstood or outright prejudiced against by commentators who don’t actually respect ...

Fantasia Barrino in 'The Color Purple' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Alice Walker started the phenomenon with her Pulitzer-winning 1982 book, and three years later Steven Spielberg turned it into a movie ...

An all-star cast featuring Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, and Taraji P. Henson sets Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to music. “The Color Purple” is not a remake of the 1985 Steven ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For something to be uplifting, it has to take you down to a sad, dark place first. “The Color Purple,” the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, certainly does ...

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From a huge Gramophone to a dizzying array of showstopping pants, the movie musical of “The Color Purple” may be a different experience than previous versions, but it’s no less breathtaking or vital.

Even amid the poverty of being black in the Jim Crow South, the world bloomed with wonders. It would be an insult to God to walk past the color purple and not notice it, observes Shug Avery, an ...

Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and producer Oprah Winfrey unpack the "cinematic heirloom," why they were never going to land Beyoncé and why so much is still riding on its success ...

Believe it or not, a Martin Scorsese movie starring Tom Cruise directly inspired the title of the groundbreaking video game ...