My interests cover a lot of ground, but I can’t say I’m anyone’s Hunter S. Thompson fan. Don’t dislike the man, just not in my wheelhouse. I ‘got’ Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas as one big acid trip (and a good Terry Gilliam piece) but that’s as far as it moved me. So […]
I’ll keep this one short and sweet… The syndicated program “African-American Short Films” has selected “Lady In My Life” as one of its featured films for this quarter. Like many of you, I’ve caught the show on a Sunday afternoon when it comes on; I’m tremendously humbled and thrilled to have my film be […]
Stokely Carmichael. Assata Shakur. Angela Davis. Bobby Seale. Huey P. Newton. For my generation, if you grew up around a certain dynamic those are all names you knew and heard about often, without living through the Experience. “The Black Power Mixtape” is a well-edited documentary that casts an eye on what those times were like […]
When I officially retire from my full geekdom in around 250 plus days, I’ll be able to say I saw a trilogy of great films (I hope) and 2 great video games all built around my favorite fictional character. I finished the story mode of Batman: Arkham City tonight, somewhat shocked at how dark […]
It’s both impossible and unfair to expect any one film to try to explain the entire history of African-Americans in cinema. But I tell you what, ‘Classified X’ is as close as they come. This documentary, written and narrated by Melvin Van Peebles, traces the history of blacks in cinema, and how movies, Hollywood […]
The latest animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation is a very faithful recreation of the classic comic, ‘Batman: Year One.’ (In the interest of full disclosure I’ll tell you that I’ve met the director of this film, Sam Liu, and talked briefly about the Batman. Not on any kind of business thing, just one […]
The dark cloud that’s been hanging over my head the past two years has finally dissipated into a thunderstorm, so I can talk about it (a little). This morning, my only sibling started serving a maximum prison sentence. The details of who/what/when aren’t important to what I’m writing here. Besides that, the rumblings of a […]
Business will be taking me to Vegas very soon. My first trip to Sin City was New Years Eve of the Millenium. Here’s what I remember: My drink was rum and Coke. We went to a corner store since we were staying in someone’s condo; came back, made our own drinks (I think mine […]
George Clooney’s latest, ‘The Ides of March’, is about a young idealistic campaign manager who finds his ideals challenged and must make the choice of whether to stick to his guns or ‘play the game’. It’s a good film and I’ve gone on record of being someone who drinks the Clooney Kool-Aid. But having said […]
The metrics I get back have made it clear that the signature piece of this blog in its lifetime has been ‘The 25 Most Important Black Films & TV Shows’ that I wrote a couple years back. When new people seek out either me or a project I talked about, the search engines will […]
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