While Deon Taylor's 'Training Day'-indebted thriller has something urgent to say on corrupt power structures, its insights are trapped in a shallow action package, saved partly by a commanding ...

Not long into the movie “Black and Blue,” an idealistic police rookie from New Orleans’s Ninth Ward witnesses the summary execution of three black civilian informants by her fellow cops.

In other words, because she’s black. But when one of the patrolmen runs her identification, he tells his partner to let her go because “she’s blue,” i.e. one of their colleagues on the force.

The question everyone was asking: Which two colors? Some said the dress was black and blue while others said it was gold and white. Some even said it changed every time they looked at it.

The question everyone was asking: Which two colors? Some said the dress was black and blue while others said it was gold and white. Some even said it changed every time they looked at it.