"Antebellum" filmmakers Gerard Bush, foreground, and Christopher Renz are photographed at home in Beverly Hills on Aug. 25. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) For first-time feature filmmakers Gerard ...

Antebellum, a horror movie from first-time film directors Gerard Bush and Christoper Renz, addresses the lasting impact of slavery in the United States while creating a visually striking world and ...

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In 2009, Gabourey Sidibe made her debut in Lee Daniels’ film Precious — and received an Oscar nomination. Ever since, she’s used her platform to challenge stereotypes in Hollywood: in a 2017 memoir, ...

In "Antebellum," Janelle Monae stars as Eden, a slave on a Southern plantation who is subjected to horrifying abuse at the hands of her tormentors. She also stars as Veronica Henley, a successful ...

Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s Antebellum begins where you can rightly expect a film with a title this brash to begin: on a plantation. This is the kind of movie that makes a point of throwing its ...

If I told you “Antebellum” combines elements of Academy Award winners “Get Out” and “12 Years a Slave,” I’d have to add, it’s with little of the intelligence, classiness or restraint of those films, ...

The marriage of ardent abolitionist Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler, heir to one of the largest slaveholding plantations in the nation, mirrored the unhappy union between southern slaveholders and ...

The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in ...