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The actor on his enduring love for Guns N' Roses, the brilliance of The Wire, and the appeal of artist Eric Roux-Fontaine

Jack Huston, 30, is the grandson of the Hollywood film director John Huston and nephew to actors Anjelica and Danny Huston. He is best known for his role as Richard Harrow, a disfigured war veteran turned assassin, in the HBO Prohibition drama Boardwalk Empire. Huston was born in London in 1982, the son of Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley and Walter Anthony (Tony) Huston. He decided he wanted to be an actor at the age of six after playing the lead role in a school production of Peter Pan. He began to get major film roles in his early 20s and has since appeared in 19 films and almost every episode of Boardwalk Empire's four seasons. He can currently be seen in Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner. Directed by...

Tambay alerted the S&A audience of BAMcinématek’s Contraband Cinema week showings of She’s Gotta Have It, Eldridge Cleaver and Chameleon Street here in NYC. But there are some other great films also showing in this series – docs mostly – that you should check out.

Tomorrow, Saturday July 3rd is what looks to be an interesting flick about the fantastic and notable (also difficult and confusing, but that’s subjective) bi-racial sci-fi writer Samuel Delany, writer of The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, and Return to Nevèrÿon series:

The Polymath or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman

Sat, Jul 3 at 7pm

Q&A with author and film subject Samuel R. Delany and director Fred Barney Taylor

Science fiction author Samuel R. Delany reminds his readers that revolution is both personal and political. Taylor’s film mirrors Delany’s life as a queer, biracial man whose writings rock the...

On Monday, February 8th at the Brecht Forum (451 West Street btw. Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY) at 7:30pm, filmmaker Clairmont Chung will be screening what looks to be a fantastic new documentary on Guyanese scholar, activist and author Walter Rodney, best known as the author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), who, while running for higher office, was assassinated in 1980 for his wide-reaching and popular political beliefs of post-independence Guyana and other countries in the West Indies.

Educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Rodney was awarded his PhD with honors in African History. An advocate for the downtrodden in the Caribbean, Rodney was among the many who fought for the empowerment of Black folks of the region and publicly rejected the authoritarian role of the middle-class political elite, making him especially popular among Rastafarians in...