The story goes that Waves is inspired by experiences from writer and director Trey Edward Shults’s own life. Shults is a white man. Waves is about an African-American family. The racial makeup ...

Starring Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Written by Abel Tesfaye, Reza Fahim and Trey Edward Shults. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. 105 minutes. In theatres everywhere Friday. 14A ...

Trey Edward Shults’s Waves is a hollow attempt at selling black lives as cultural product Sarah-Tai Black Special to The Globe and Mail Published November 20, 2019 Updated November 21, 2019 ...

Directed by Trey Edward Shults Starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown, Taylor Russell, Lucas Hedges, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Clifton Collins Jr.

Waves director Trey Edward Shults and star Kelvin Harrison Jr. discuss the film and whether a white director can tell black people's stories. Waves has had a pretty good run so far.

Earlier this week, both Trey Edward Shults and Kelvin Harrison Jr. came to Toronto and I had a chance to speak with them about the film. In a Q&A following a private screening of the film, Shults ...

The filmmaker, Trey Edward Shults, is white. The actors preempted the debate around white directors telling Black stories by explaining that Shults was “collaborative” with his cast, giving ...

But Trey Edward Shults, who helmed the 2017 horror It Comes at Night, wanted to eschew the streaming model for his recently released family drama Waves. The 31-year-old Texas-born filmmaker wanted ...

With Waves, Trey Edward Shults captures pain, loneliness and loss in a bottle. You should take a sipBack to video He seems busy and well rounded, active in sports, school, church and family.

After his legendary cameo as himself in “Uncut Gems,” R&B star Abel “ The Weeknd ” Tesfaye is making his proper feature film acting debut. The artist behind “After Hours” and “Dawn FM” will write and ...

Along with director Trey Edward Shults, Tesfaye, 35, spoke with The Associated Press about retiring The Weeknd, losing his voice onstage in 2022 and lessons learned from making “The Idol.” ...

The movie, directed by Trey Edward Shults, is a fictionalized odyssey through a version of The Weeknd suffering from a bout of insomnia during a world tour, causing his sanity to come undone.