So like a lot of you, I’m getting geared up to see Red Tails in a couple of weeks. To get my mind ready for that, I went on Netflix Instant this weekend and rewatched A Soldier’s Story for the first time in what must have been 2o years. The trailers already let us […]
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 […]
Hollywood Shuffle was the first film written, directed, produced by and starring Robert Townsend. The autobiographical tale is simple enough; a young black actor finally gets his break in the Business, winning the part of the lead pimp in a ‘black’ mashup of West Side Story. The role is so brutally stereotypical though, he wonders […]
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