Dear Chris, In my moviegoing experience, I’ve only been brought to tears twice. The first time was when Kunta Kinte refused to answer to Toby, which may be the greatest scene in Roots. The other time was about 10 minutes into Batman and Robin, when the heroes started ice skating around the frozen over […]
My 2008 project became malikaziz.com. Coming up with a style and making it fit into the overall direction I’m going in; deciding on a recurring topic (the 25 MIF); tackling a few thoughtful topics to get this blog off on the right foot. While the ‘voice’ you’re reading is all mine, I had quite a […]
Danny Boyle’s latest is about a young Muslim kid named Jamal Malik. Needless to say, I really liked this movie. What, you want to know what it’s about? Sigh… This is really a movie you need to see to fully appreciate how it’s done, but Slumdog Millionaire frames a large part of its story around […]
The scale I came up with to determine the 25 Most Important Films and TV Shows to the Black Experience is pretty simple: five categories, each with a scale going from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). The higher the overall score, the higher the ranking. All ties broken by this one man committee. So what […]
Let me start off by saying I didn’t grow up a James Bond fan, even a casual one. The first 007 film I saw in the theatres was The World Is Not Enough. To refresh your memory, that was the one featuring Denise Richards as nuclear scientist Dr. Christmas Jones. Nuff […]
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