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May 2026
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January 2026
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Twenty years after ‘Hustle & Flow,’ Craig Brewer directs another Oscar-nominated performance
When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Jan. 22, one relative surprise was a Best Actress nomination for Kate Hudson, who plays Milwaukee tribute singer Claire Sardina in “Song Sung Blue.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: A promising note on ‘Song Sung Blue,’ a ‘Plague’ in theaters
“Stranger Things” fans can watch the finale of the Netflix series in a communal, big-screen setting at Paradiso Cinema Grill on New Year’s Eve and on New Year’s Day.
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From Memphis to Milwaukee: Craig Brewer’s journey to his biggest moviemaking stage yet
“With a Christmas Day release in theaters coast-to-coast, with two big stars and a repertoire of well-loved music, ‘Song Sung Blue’ is a pretty good advertisement for the musicians and studios of Memphis.”
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November 2025
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Crosstown’s ‘12 Angry Jurors’ includes an A-lister behind the scenes
Filmmaker Craig Brewer directed Crosstown High School’s “12 Angry Jurors,” and, as the student who played Juror Number Nine put it, “Not a lot of people can say they’ve gotten this opportunity.”
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September 2025
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hustle & Flow’ anniversary
It’s a big week of both new and old movies on public screens in Memphis, including one instance of the two categories intersecting.
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January 2025
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The Essential Memphis Library: Craig Brewer’s ‘Hustle & Flow’
Twenty years ago — Jan. 29, 2005 — was perhaps the greatest day in the history of Memphis movies, with a pair of made-in-Memphis films taking the top two prizes at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.
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October 2024
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Craig Brewer to direct Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson in Neil Diamond-tribute artist film
Memphian Craig Brewer captures “Lightning & Thunder” in his latest project about a tribute artist duo.
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September 2024
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Craig Brewer, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson are reuniting for post-'Hustle & Flow’ project
The series is a true crime drama based on a decades-old Atlanta “street tale,” according to the Memphis director.
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August 2024
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Craig Brewer on his Muhammad Ali series and challenges of being a creative
On this week’s episode of “The Sidebar,” filmmaker Craig Brewer talks about his career challenges and new series “Fight Night,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson and others.
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February 2023
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To-Do List: Blaxploitation on the big screen and belated Mardi Gras parties
This week, the U.S. Poet Laureate will read at Rhodes, Spillit stops in Orange Mound and Ballet Memphis pays homage to love.
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Memphis Grizzlies tap local designers for limited-edition merchandise
The Grizzlies plan similar collaborations in the future.
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November 2022
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Social Club: 50 years of ‘Let’s Stay Together;’ Memphians name a snowplow
A documentary about The Invaders hits streaming sites and Memphians give their best snowplow names.
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August 2022
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‘Young Rock’ filming is result of game-changing incentives, personal relationships
When “Young Rock” begins filming its third season in Memphis next week, it will do so for a couple of reasons. One is that NBCUniversal executive Richard Ross lives here.
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June 2022
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From the Antenna Club to the Hustle & Flow film score, Scott Bomar talks Memphis music
Emmy-award-winning film composer Scott Bomar joins Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.
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May 2022
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The To-Do List: ’Shroom hunts, Craig Brewer’s ‘cosmic’ secret and a drag lip-sync battle
This week, there’s a rare chance to see Robert Altman’s “Nashville” on the big screen, Memphis in May wraps up with a run and Hubby Jenkins of Carolina Chocolate Drops fame plays Crosstown Arts.
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March 2022
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The To-Do List: Science fiction, secret feature (and some places to Gogh)
This week, Arooj Aftab and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform at Crosstown Theater, Pussii Dusse’s music and art come to the Benjamin L. Hooks Library, bluegrass is back on the Collierville Town Square and the Metal Museum puts on “RINGS!”
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Director Craig Brewer shares a secret at Crosstown
These days, it’s hard to see a movie without knowing a lot — perhaps too much — about it. But Craig Brewer’s “Secret Screening” series won’t have that problem.
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March 2021
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Black Lodge telethon features live music, comedy and film
The two-day event is a thank-you to supporters of Black Lodge’s Indiegogo campaign, which reached its financial goal before it was set to end.
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The Memphis 10: Protecting Memphis water, the best of Craig Brewer and more
With available, clean drinking water an increasingly precious commodity, Memphis’ supply is perhaps the city’s most important asset. We did nothing to earn it. But it’s on us to preserve and manage it.
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February 2021
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Memphis meets Zamunda: Craig Brewer on ‘Coming 2 America’
“It’s a moment I will never be able to duplicate,” the director says of the movie’s Amazon debut. ‘Think about it, man. Millions of people around the globe are going to be watching “Coming 2 America” all at the same time.’
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Movies this week: Oscar favorite ‘Nomadland’ on the (really) big screen, ‘Coming 2 America’ teases
“Nomadland” has competition for biggest movie opening in Memphis this week. The other is Malco’s Studio on the Square, which joins the handful of other Memphis Malco theaters that have reopened over the past couple of weeks.
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January 2021
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Movies this week: Filming moves C-Y market, Malco expands opening, Sundance continues
Film shoots aren’t for sightseeing, but the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission notes that, with COVID a going concern, a shoot for ‘Women of the Movement’ will be even more closed than usual.
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December 2020
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The Memphis 10: Charley Pride, Tiger hoops and 2021: The year pizza replaces COVID
Plus, what we mean when we talk about defunding the police and where to get a good tamale in Midtown on Saturdays.
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Indie Memphis to bring Sundance Film Fest to Summer Drive-In
The festival, considered the most prestigious festival geared around American indie film, will be screening its selections this year at satellite locations, and Memphis will be one of these “Satellite Screens.”
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