The 85th Academy Awards happened to tonight. Seth McFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy,” was the host and a lot of people won stuff…
2012 in black cinema can be best described as “For Us By Us.” No longer depending on the Hollywood machine to greenlight their stories, a…
With the Valentine’s Day weekend upon us many folks will be looking for a flick to cuddle up with. But what are the choices? The sad fact is that seeing two Black people in love (or even lust) on the big screen is becoming more and more rare. Remember when it felt like we had […]
Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President (sorry, Bill Clinton does NOT count) the only time we saw a Commander-in-Chief of color was in the movies. Sometimes the portrayals were dignified (Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact) other times they were not (Terry Crews in Idiocracy), but nine times out of ten the world was […]
