This past weekend I went to the USC Homecoming game with a couple of the guys from school, and for a minute I couldn’t help but daydream about these days. Part of getting older is remembering how idealistic you were and how real life changes your perspective on things. I tell that anecdote […]
Spent quite a bit of time this past week staring at the big screen. Let the awards season begin! Real quick wrap ups of three films I’ve seen the past week: N Secure is a film about abusive relationships, set in the upper/middle class black community. The film buff in me thought this movie had […]
If you come here regularly or know me in real life, you know I’m good friends with the man in the middle of this picture. Aaron Rahsaan Thomas is one of the writers on CSI:NY, and he was the head writer on Friday’s episode, which is also noteworthy as being the television return […]
This weekend would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. As a kid, I knew Lennon as a face and a name (much like the Beatles themselves) but not music I heard (or at that time recognized as theirs). As my individual interest in pop culture and music grew, it was only a matter of […]
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen two movies I’ve liked but haven’t written in depth reviews for: The American and Never Let Me Go. As I’ve been rolling over in my head why it’s been so hard to write about these movies, there’s one word I keep coming back to: slow. In the […]
Hey All, Haven’t posted in a little while, and probably won’t for a little longer. Just wanted to give a heads up I’m taking some personal time for myself at the moment. This year has gone very well; thanks to all who have read. Fingers crossed we’ll wrap up 2010 on a high note. Until […]
One of the side effects of being in the house so much lately is catching up on movies on TV/DVD. One of the films I caught maybe should have been on my 25 Most Important Black Film list from a couple years ago. Maybe. Regardless, I’m not changing the past, but will give this a […]
Saturday night I participated in the Reel Black Men Film Festival organized by the Black Hollywood Resource and Education Center. “Lady In My Life” screened along with several other films made by black filmmakers. All shorts (the longest was 30 minutes), the films covered the spectrum of storytelling: there were romances, dramas, comedies, satires, […]
I made reference to this a little while ago and now can officially announce it: I received an invitation to be part of a Q&A for my film this upcoming weekend, and here are the details. It’s known as the Reel Black Men Film Festival and its run by my friends at the Black […]
While I continue to be annoyed with Islam’s status as the modern day ‘boogeyman’, I also recognized long ago that the definition of the word ignorance comes out of people just not knowing what something is. And human nature is to fear what you don’t know or understand or control. So with that in […]
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