Michael B. Jordan, director Ryan Coogler discuss their award-winning film about the last day of Oscar Grant, the young man fatally shot by a BART transit cop ...

Fruitvale Station (2013) Film Review, a movie directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Durand, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Ahna O’Reilly, Melonie Diaz, Ariana ...

“Fruitvale Station” is hugely effective meat-and-potatoes moviemaking, and one hell of a feature film debut for writer-director Ryan Coogler. Lean (84 minutes), swift and full of life, Coogler ...

Coogler’s film isn’t the flashiest or most original movie ever to win Sundance, but in its carefully observed, unvarnished portrait of middle-class African-American life, and its acute sense ...

Fruitvale Station, the just-released debut feature from 27-year-old director/writer Ryan Coogler, has already garnered critical buzz for the filmmaker and his stars, Michael B. Jordan as Grant and ...

“I cannot believe this is the America I live in right now,” tweeted Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan in reaction to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in his second degree murder trial for ...

‘Fruitvale Station,’ Trayvon Martin and the cathartic power of compassion. ... July 17, 2013. Michael B. Jordan stars in “Fruitvale Station.” (Courtesy The Weinstein Company) ...

Empathy and authenticity keep you on the edge of your seat at “Fruitvale Station,” a fact-based movie shot in the cities where its story really occurred – Oakland, San Francisco and Hayward ...

Early in the morning on New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old black drug dealer Oscar Grant was shot in the back and killed by a white cop in Oakland’s Fruitvale Station as dozens of witnesses ...

Fruitvale Station, the directorial debut of Ryan Coogler, chronicles the last day of Oakland resident Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old who was shot in the back after he was laid face down on the ...

Last year’s Sundance Film Festival grand jury champion, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” hit it precociously big in Oscar season, with nominations for picture, lead actress, directing and ...

Here’s today’s release: LOS ANGELES (December 13, 2013) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA), announced today that the critically acclaimed feature FRUITVALE STATION will be honored ...