Hey all....sentimental last post of the year and all that, blah, blah, blah...I had great fun last night talking to Afronerd and black film lover Sergio, who directs a Black Film Festival in Chicago called "Black Harvest" every August. If you want to
Okee dokee. Forget why the Wayans brothers are hanging out with New York. Forget why New York still has uncomfortable looking 60 pound boobage. Forget why on God's green earth that nerdball known as Tailor Made is attracted to them, or anything else
Tim Burton's version of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd is a devilishly clever, funny, and creepy ode to misanthropy and vengeance. The title role is the barber Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), who renames himself Sweeney Todd after a lengthy
Hey guys....I'll be mixing it up with Afronerd on Sunday on his radio show....talking about the state of Black Cinema going into 2008. He is a pretty intelligent brother, but he also has a sense of humor, so I hope you can check us out. For a link on
Denzel Washington is 53. The dude in this picture is supposed to be a "Denzel Washington impersonator". Uh, yeah...good luck with that.Nichelle Nichols is 75. Wonder how she feels about Zoe Saldana playing her role in the upcoming "Star Trek" movie?Since
The Man From the Alamo is a Budd Boetticher Western dating from before the director's more well-known association with actor Randolph Scott. In this film, Glenn Ford plays John Stroud, the unfortunate man chosen by lot to leave the Alamo just before
Alrighty then. Hope you guys had an awesome day yesterday, no matter what you chose to do. I was going to do one of those standard end of the year "Top 10 Best Films of 2007" lists for black film, but guess what? Surprise, surprise, I couldn't think
OK, I don't have a lot of energy between the holidays and knowing that the hot garbage that is "National Treasure 2" is far and away the number one holiday movie. That one fact alone makes me not even want to think about the movie world for a while....
I just finished watching "25th Hour". It is one of the very few Spike Lee films I hadn't seen, and I avoided it because I misunderstood the subject matter from a synopsis I'd read somewhere, and it seemed dismal. But finally I watched, because I've read
Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), and Jennifer Hudson have joined the cast of "The Secret Life of Bees", a drama for Fox Searchlight. Dakota Fanning had already been attached to play Lily Owens, a fourteen year-old girl, living in 1964,
I always wonder why Samuel Jackson takes on so many movie roles...I mean it can't be the money...is it ego? An unquenchable lust for world dominating fame? A flaming desire to be in "The Guinness Book of World Records" for most acting roles ever by a
Her birthday was actually yesterday, but I couldn't let it go unmarked, as she is one of Black Hollywood's national treasures. Cicely Tyson is 74.I tried to find a clip of "Sounder", because I've been thinking about that movie lately. For those of you
George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story is an epitome of stylish wit and charm, evincing the same concern with class and life decisions as Cukor's earlier (and much superior) Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn vehicle Holiday. Hepburn plays Tracy Lord, a society
The final film in Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy is Lola, and it is the trilogy's lightest and most comical installment, a colorful and vibrant satire of the capitalist idea of advancing one's self. Although Lola (Barbara Sukowa), an expensive call girl, is
OK, this is a repost of "Yawn" (with an addendum), a ditty I wrote back in June (yes, your Black Cinemist is always on top of it) on "The Great Debaters":Oprah Winfrey is set to produce "The Great Debaters" directed by and starring Denzel Washington.
**sigh**(part one)John Singleton is set to direct a feature adaptation of "The A-Team". Et tu, John? **sigh**(part 2, a.k.a. douche alert)Jamie Foxx at his "40th" (for the third or fourth time) birthday party.**sigh** (part 3)What is really going on,
Porky In Wackyland may just be the strangest cartoon to come out of the Warner Brothers studio, and that's really saying something in a catalog filled with strange little films. In this Robert Clampett-helmed production, Porky Pig heads off in a bouncy
