Today is the anniversary or “Founders Day” of Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the historically black Greek letter organizations. Through pure coincidence, I talked to both of my line brothers yesterday. I became an Alpha Man (cough, cough) years ago, and went through the entire undergraduate experience: the ‘neo’ semester, the party walking, the […]
Dear Mr. President-Elect, Let me start by saying, I hate politics. In a perfect world, the most talented artists would be the biggest celebrities, the biggest criminals would get the largest jail sentences, and the smartest people would be our world leaders. As it is, sex tapes kickstart more careers than they destroy; the […]
Ahh Benson. Spun off from the very funny satire Soap, Benson follows the butler made famous by Robert Guillaume as he starts working for the Governor Gene Gatling. Time for the tale of the tape: Relevance: It’s 2008, about to be 2009. Turn on your television. Now flashback to the early 80s, where a […]
Car Wash was Michael Schultz’ follow up to the cult classic Cooley High. In the style of Robert Altman, the main character of the film isn’t a person at all; it’s the car wash which serves as the meeting place for pimps, preachers, militants, capitalists, and everyone in between. Now, on to the tale of […]
Full disclosure: Until the trailers started coming out, I had never heard of Harvey Milk. Not even once. Now that I think about it, I haven’t made my way to San Fran yet. Maybe that will be my 2009 road trip. Anyway, I can’t speak to how close this movie stayed to the real […]
I remember the weekend this movie came out; I planned to see it but something came up. I went back a couple weekends later and couldn’t find it. Not exactly a box office smash… Now that I’ve finally had a chance to see it, let me give you […]
At different times, I’ve had close friends ask me what I thought of the women who would become their wives. My response has usually been something like this: “She’s cool with me. But in the end, it’s you who’s going to be going home to her everyday, it’s you who’s going to be waking up […]
With the extra time off, I’m catching up on various movies I just hadn’t gotten around to yet. I was talking about Miracle at St. Anna to a friend, and he told me I really should take time out to see She Hate Me. What I had heard over the years was this […]
2009 is still something of an open book right now. I have a short I really like, but the economy isn’t helping anybody these days, least of all independent filmmakers. Last summer I outlined my next feature script, Isn’t She Lovely? It’s as close to a Tyler Perry style film as I’m capable of writing; […]
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