Paranoid Park opens with an oddly unsettling credit sequence, a gorgeous static shot of a bridge on a dark, overcast day, threatening dark blue clouds hanging in the background over a pastoral scene. The landscape looks like it was cut-and-pasted from
Okay folks; please tell me you saw "Blackula" and "Scream Blackula Scream" last weekend on TV One. If not, for shame! :-)I have a laundry list of things going on in Black Cinema--some of it good, some of it pure f*ckery.First up this one:Director John
When the sight of the French painter and filmmaker Hugues de Montalembert was taken from him by a violent robbery at his home in New York, he was unwilling to give up on his life. He forced himself through a recovery period, learned how to get around
Here is Bey "emoting" in what I'm guessing is supposed to be a tragic and pivotal scene in Cadillac Records. I still say those eyes are two broken porchlights. Maybe when you've been a pampered princess your whole life, it's hard to draw on something
First Ironman and now this. What in the random heck?'Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard allegedly assaulted composer Tex Allen in a backstage beatdown as they worked together on Broadway’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” last winter, according to a lawsuit.
To Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother, and nephew who were killed at the hands of some lunatic last week. Sick, sad, and tragic beyond measu
Yep, you read it right. I will be the first one to lay into Cuba when he's cooning it up with drivel such as Snow Dogs, Boat Trip, and Daddy Day Camp. Horrible! But when he's doing drama? Not so much.I started this blog because of the film "Shadowboxer"
Could this be one of the reasons why? Hilarious!pic: h/t undercover black man click on pic to enla
Is the title of an adorable movie I saw last night. Some have you might have seen it already; I passed it up at a couple of film fests cause the trailers turned me off. It seemed silly, lame, and cliched, and I certainly didn't want to spend an hour
Some things have come up on my radar for the past couple of weeks, some of them questionable as hayell, some of them just mild what tha?'s. Some of them are a bit late, but I just wanted to put my thoughts out there anyway: Halle Berry as "Sexiest Woman
Damn, damn, damn! Icon Rudy Ray Moore, aka Dolemite has passed. We all have to go sometime, but it still sucks, bigtime.For those of you that don't know anything about Dolemite, shame on you! But you can start here with this cl
The biggest surprise of Oliver Stone's W. — and one of its greatest strengths — is that it isn't just a predictable leftist hatchet job on an already unpopular and widely ridiculed president. It surely would've been tempting, not to mention easy, for
While rereading my interview with Barry Jenkins, I was reminded of an email sent over to me by Eric Easter, who writes a blog I enjoy very much, the Ebony/Jet blog "Big Ideas". It was about Fred Williamson's maverick filmmaking. Barry spoke of being
While watching the debate last night, I tried not to get distracted by trivial things the way I usually do with these things, such as what was going on with the candidates lips (seriously, did Obama not have a razor within a mile radius before this
