Do you remember when Fruitvale Station was going to win, or at least be nominated, for all the major Oscar awards? Do you remember when Michael B. Jordan was going to win Best Actor, or when Ryan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With just five movies, Ryan Coogler has already established himself as one of the most talented and influential filmmakers of his ...

(The Root) — Ryan Coogler’s first full-length film, Fruitvale Station, officially hit theaters today, but it has been the talk of the cinema world for weeks. The Sundance winner is based on the life ...

Fruitvale Station, the Sundance award-winner that opens today with a lot of buzz behind it, is a decidedly personal, non-political film about a very political topic: the shooting death of a ...

(The Root) — Fruitvale Station — a film chronicling the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Oakland, Calif., native who was shot and killed by a transit-police officer on New Year’s Day in ...

Emotionally wrenching and based on true events, Fruitvale Station creates a sad portrait of a young man shot down in his prime. It is the story of Oscar Grant, a black, 22-year-old native of Oakland, ...

While it is purely coincidental, “Fruitvale Station,” an award-winning film with similar subject matter and a similar outcome, comes in the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was on ...

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Ryan Cooglerhas only made five feature-length films so far in his career, yet the writer and director has already amassed a truly impressive filmography. After a series of shorts that teased his great ...

But the moment it clicks that Fruitvale Station is doing something special — avoiding many of Hollywood's pitfalls in depicting "troubled" Black youth, and traumatic violence against Black people — ...