Lila is no more a precocious child than Ruth is an anti-heroine or Bo an all-knowing matriarch, and even when Hart teases out the stakes through a small handful of gorgeous visual flourishes, Fast ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Most people probably wouldn't mention the sci-fi family drama Fast Color if they're asked to list all the superhero films that came out in 2018. Now, according to Deadline, Amazon Studios is planning ...

Fast Color will follow Ruth, a former drug addict and runaway, who returns home and rediscovers the special powers she thought she lost, powers that her family have long kept hidden from the public.

Fast Color is now streaming free on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, and that’s a pretty big deal. Why? Because this sci-fi film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Lorraine Toussaint has been struggling (and ...

It is a very good time for female superheroes in the movies, and you can say it is about time. With the roaring success of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel, I imagine we can expect many more, but a new ...

On one level, the failure of “Fast Color” is a simple story: After its world premiere at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, Julia Hart‘s sci-fi drama received strong reviews but struggled to find ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is developing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, I have learned. The project comes from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, along with ...

Where do we find entertainment these days? On our laptops and in our living rooms. The streaming options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. So, in this weekly feature, I review a ...

In a future where it hasn't rained for years, Ruth returns after a long absence to her mother and young daughter. Like all women in her family, she possesses secret, special powers, yet she alone is ...

Lionsgate's 'Fast Color' — a film about three black women who discover they have unexplainable powers —has only played in 25 theaters and grossed a mere $68K. By Chris Gardner Filmmaker Julia Hart ...

Everyone said there was no market for an African American female superhero. Now, Amazon and Viola Davis are out to prove them wrong. And then, a few months later, Amazon announced that it would ...