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Movie Review: Red Tails
Red Tails is a very important film, one that almost never saw the light of day because Hollywood did not know how to market a film with an all Black cast. You market a film with all brown people the same way you would market any other action film. Hollywood is certainly not having a [...]
Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less
It’s silly, it’s funny, it’s stupid! It’s exactly what you would expect from all the men featured in the movie poster, though the one with his thumb on the detonator kinda gets on my damn nerves. I literally LOL a few times and SMH as well. There’s really not much more to say other than [...]
Movie Review: MOOZ-LUM
Mooz-lum is an independent film that was released on limited screens, but you can pick it up at your local Family Video. It stars Evan Ross, Nia Long, Danny Glover, and was filmed entirely in Southeast Michigan. It follows the trials and tribulations of an African American Muslim family pre and post 9/11. This film [...]
Lord of the Flies: A Review
Okay…hands up: how many of you read Lord of the Flies in high school? Okay, cool. Now how many of you have read or re-read Lord of the Flies as an ADULT? Right. That’s what I thought. Lord of the Flies was written in 1954 and, surprisingly, took well into the 60s before it became [...]
Movie Review: Source Code
I didn’t expect to like this film because I had heard from a good friend that it sucked because it was the same thing happening over and over again. I’m glad I didn’t take their word for it. Source Code is about a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers [...]
Movie Review: Cowboys & Aliens
This film should have been titled Cowboys vs Aliens! It was OK, but not great. Much of it was predictable and silly, but it’s a pretty good film. There’s a dog that steals the show and receives the most screen time, so I was disappointed that it did not receive proper credit at the end [...]
Movie Review: Sucker Punch
A sucker punch is described as an unexpected blow. Sucker Punch, the film, is all about women giving men unexpected blows (no pun intended. Really!), but the film also seems to be an excuse for women to be sexy badasses. I’m not mad about that fact, but other than that this film didn’t have much [...]
Movie Review: Super 8
I was not very impressed by this film at all. In fact, I was disappointed. The short teaser for this film that was shown in theaters over a year ago was more exciting than the finished product. What I’m about to say could be a spoiler, but the basic plot of the film revolves around [...]
Hollywood Takes Us Back To When Black Women Were “The Help”
Based on the New York Times Bestselling novel of the same name by author, Kathryn Stockett, The Help takes a look at life in the 1960′s when many Black women raised other peoples babies, cooked, and cleaned for affluent White families for a living. In Theatres August 12, 2011. Will You Be There? Related articles [...]
