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In 2018, Mariama Diallo shared her short film Hair Wolf with audiences at that year’s Sundance Film Festival, and this year, she returned to the fest with her debut feature film, Master, Starring Regina Hall and Zoe Renee, Master’s story is centered around the horrifying experiences of two different Black women navigating their way through an academic space steeped in the traditions of racism and founded in white supremacy, and the harm that these ideals can have when they’re not properly addressed and destroyed.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Diallo about the project, and during our conversation, she discussed how her own personal experiences, as well as her mother’s, helped shape the story of Master. Diallo also talked about taking on harmful tropes that have been a part of Hollywood’s legacy of storytelling over the years in her first feature, her experiences...

Her father was scary. Vincent Gallo got vicious. And Jack Nicholson taught her never to give a brown present. Anjelica Huston tells John Patterson about a life among Hollywood royalty

The last time I met Anjelica Huston was six or seven years ago in a luxury oceanfront hotel in Venice, California. It was windy and cold, Huston was still a smoker – we talked outside in the wind while she lit up like a naughty schoolgirl. Today, it's a blisteringly hot day, she's an enviably youthful 60, an ex-smoker now, sitting in the lounge of the luxury hotel next door, before a gigantic cinemascope window affording guests a million-dollar view of the Pacific, which looks seriously tempting in today's heat.

"I went in the ocean this year, the day after my birthday," she tells me as we watch the breakers gently roll in, "and it was actually really nice. It's like the Eiffel Tower is for Parisians,...

Daughter of John, sister of Danny, the talented and tall Angelica Huston is climbing back into the director's chair for a 3rd time. After Bastard Out of Carolina and Agnes Browne, this new project will be distrbitued under the Focus Features banner. Huston will next be seen in Seraphim Falls Give Us a Kiss is a comic-drama set in the Ozarks (covers much of the southern half of Missouri and an extensive area of northwest Arkansas. The region extends to the west into extreme southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma) and is based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, a comic novelist who has penned books about hijinx in poorer regions of the Midwestern mountain range. Woodrell's novel concerns a crime novelist, his underachieving brother and a pot deal gone awry. Penning the script is Angus MacLachlan,...

Anjelica Huston's second feature as a director, Agnes Browne - about a feisty widowed mother-of-seven in 60s Dublin - signals its dire fate very early on, when she is shown gazing excitedly at a poster for a Tom Jones concert, but, bafflingly, never otherwise evincing the slightest enthusiasm for Jones's oeuvre. The heart sinks. Can it really be true that, like Wilson Pickett in The Commitments, Tom is going to have to resolve the plot at the end, like a rockin' deus ex machina? The effrontery of this device takes a lot of beating, especially considering that Jones appears in the film without any extra make-up, playing his 60s self. That, as PG Wodehouse once said, pretty well walks off with the Huntley and Palmer.

Huston herself gives an outrageously hammy performance as the indomitable Agnes, marching around the streets with a lot of other women in authentic 60s street-scene get up.