We’ve combed through this year’s lineup to select 10 exciting long-form works directed by Black folks, most making their feature debuts, which compose a diverse assortment of stories that survey academia, policing, systematic bias, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonialist themes from a uniquely Black perspective. Here are the exciting Black-helmed projects, from incisive docuseries to adventurous feature films, to look out for at this year’s Sundance. Curious about how to re-create the magic of Sundance at home?...

Kim (in)famously wore multiple of late icon Monroe’s gowns during the 2022 Met Gala festivities alongside then-boyfriend Pete Davidson. And while the love story between Kim and the “Saturday Night Live” alum will be fodder for Season 2, streaming September 22 on Hulu, the second season of the critically acclaimed hit series truly is a family affair with drama coming from all sides. “Season 2 is going to be insanity,” Khloe Kardashian says in the trailer, while later admitting she feels like a “fish in a fish bowl” when discussing backlash to a previous article....

Little else needs to be said to appreciate the trenchant message in “Under the Banner of Heaven,” as adapted by Dustin Lance Black (who last tackled Mormonism as a staff writer on HBO’s “Big Love”), but the limited series keeps probing the inherent complications of unquestioned piety over its seven lengthy episodes. (The five screened for critics run 63-68 minutes each.) Religion doesn’t always bring about the best in men. Preaching peace and love from the pulpit doesn’t mean practicing either behind closed doors....

Since debuting at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” has garnered acclaim from critics and fans alike, and you can now stream it on video on demand. The Golden Globe award-winning film, which was written and directed by Chung and released in select theaters last fall, tells the story of a Korean-American family’s move from California to a farm in small-town Arkansas in the 1980s. The cross-country jaunt proves to be a bumpy transition that finds the Yi family working to acclimate to a new environment, while cultivating their own version of the American Dream....

Will Smith, who played “Batman” villain Deadshot in David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” in 2016, told Variety that he supports the director’s cut of the DC superhero film. “Let me tell you, there’s a whole lot that stayed on the floor for ‘Suicide Squad,’” Smith said. “I’m into it. I love that world. I love what was created in both versions. I absolutely would love to [see it].” Following the HBO Max release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” Ayer tweeted that his #AyerCut would be “easy” to structure and finally capture his original “Suicide Squad” storyline....

The news comes more than three months before the thriller series returns for Season 2 on March 26. The series, which comes from creators and married couple Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, proved a breakout success for the premium cable channel when it premiered in November 2021, averaging over five million viewers per episode and getting a Season 2 renewal five episodes into the season. “With ‘Yellowjackets’ runaway success in Season 1 and the pent-up anticipation for Season 2, we wanted to maximize the momentum by fast-tracking Season 3 now,” Showtime President Chris McCarthy said in a statement....

On Monday, the Apple TV+ subscription price rose from $4.99 per month to $6.99, the service’s first price hike since launching November 1, 2019. Prices also increased for Apple Music (“due to an increase in licensing costs,” Apple said in a statement, “and in turn, artists and songwriters will earn more for the streaming of their music”) and Apple One, which is the bundle of Music, TV+, Apple Arcade, iCloud+, Apple News+, and Apple Fitness+....