On the Huffington Post, I interviewed Ron Hall, whose wife inspired him to befriend a homeless man named Denver Moore. Their book, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together inspired a film starring Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, and Renee Zellweger. It …

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Producer/director/writer Nancy Meyers has the formula on lockdown: Take one Oscar-winning performer, preferably of a certain age (Diane Keaton, Anne Hathaway, Robert de Niro, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet). Create a setting of lush, heavenly comfort with soft pillows, gleaming surfaces, white wine, and luscious food. Add a generic title (“The Intern,” “The Holiday”). Put some …

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The new film from writer/director Dee Rees (“Pariah”) is “Mudbound,” the story of two families, set in the Jim Crow era. It stars Jason Mitchell (“Straight Outta Compton”), Garrett Hedlund (“Tron”) and Carey Mulligan (“An Education”), out November 17.

The Great 78 Project is making available hours and hours of the earliest recorded music. The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially …

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Coming soon — a documentary about co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union, Dolores Huerta.