Danielle Brooks is unpacking one of the most powerful scenes in “The Color Purple,” set at a Thanksgiving dinner table — and what helped her to get to that moment of “rebirth and renewal.” In the ...

With any musical, there’s also a challenge in how to blend music within dramatic, dialogue-heavy scenes. For “The Color Purple,” a reimagined take on the Alice Walker novel and quasi-adaptation of the ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for "The Color Purple." Danielle Brooks is unpacking one of the most powerful scenes in “The Color Purple,” set at a Thanksgiving dinner table — and what helped ...

From the opening shot of Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of The Color Purple, audiences will know this is not their mother’s version of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. Distinct from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film ...

The Color Purple has been declared the second-biggest Christmas Day film release of all time. Along with dynamic acting and singing, there are also fantastic dance sequences. Fatima Robinson, a widely ...

The decades-spanning story follows a Black woman named Celie who overcomes trauma, finds love and learns to forgive. Steven Spielberg directed the 1985 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, which was adapted ...

The film officially hits theaters on Dec. 25. After dire advance buzz -- no nomination as best musical from the notoriously eager-to-please Golden Globes -- “The Color Purple” hits theaters for the ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The fantasy musical sequence was uncharted territory for production designer Paul Austerberry, who oversaw the practical build as the ultimate in magical realism. This served as Bazawule’s entry point ...

What’s getting lost in all this messy gossip is that “The Color Purple” is a triumphant story of sisterhood and female empowerment. We should be talking about the tour de force performances of Henson, ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for "The Color Purple." Danielle Brooks is unpacking one of the most powerful scenes in “The Color Purple,” set at a Thanksgiving dinner table — and what helped ...