Few movies at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival feel timelier than “Ricky.” Adapted from director Rashad Frett’s short of the same name, which also debuted at Sundance, the film tells the story of an ...

Humanizing the discourse around criminal justice is as ambitious a goal as any for a feature film, but it’s a tall order that filmmaker Rashad Frett more than fulfills in “Ricky,” his debut feature ...

‘RICKY,’ the debut feature from director Rashad Frett, is headed to theaters this spring after earning the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Based on ...

Stephan James has joined the cast of “I Play Rocky” in the role of Carl Weathers, Amazon MGM Studios announced on Thursday. Anthony Ippolito is playing Sylvester Stallone in the biopic charting the ...

With his feature directorial debut Ricky, which is coming off of its world premiere at Sundance, writer-director Rashad Frett looked to shed light on the many challenges ex-offenders face in ...

Stephan James is stepping into the shoes of a legend. The acclaimed actor has been cast as Carl Weathers in I Play Rocky, an upcoming feature from Amazon MGM Studios that pulls back the curtain on the ...

The amount of effort it takes to be a law-abiding citizen in America—and anywhere else, for that matter—is the subject of Ricky, Rashad Frett’s thoughtful feature debut, starring Stephan James in the ...