We know you love them. Black music movies, that is. Who hasn’t watched the true stories of some of the greatest musicians of all time in one of several musically based Black films, many of which have become beloved parts of the culture? We see you, Five Heartbeats fans and Purple Rain junkies who’ve seen […]
The 1967 Race Riots of Detroit, also known as the 12th Street Riots, were among the most violent civil disturbances in United States history. A new film by Oscar Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit will examine the riots and one particularly disturbing incident involving the mysterious murder of three Black men at the Algiers Motel. The […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — An author whose book was the basis for the Oscar-nominated movie “Hidden Figures” has won an award for writing literature that promotes diversity and confronts racism. Margot Lee Shetterly’s book and the namesake movie are about the contributions of a team of black women mathematicians to the NASA space program. Best-selling novelist […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Samuel L. Jackson has criticized the casting of black British actors in American films like the horror hit “Get Out” and the Martin Luther King Jr. drama “Selma.” In an interview Monday, Jackson noted that a lot of roles are going to British actors. He said he wondered what “Get Out” […]
According to this spoof, all of America is in the sunken place.
Director Theodore Melfi says he had to whitewash a couple of scenes in the Oscar-nominated movie Hidden Figures because it’s not fair to depict ALL the white characters and the white establishment as racist, even though history says otherwise. When interviewed by Vice, Melfi defended his decision to add a white savior into the story… because every […]
An uplifting drama about African-American mathematicians who aided NASA’s 1960s space race, “Hidden Figures” was the surprise best-ensemble winner Sunday night at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium. With the Oscar front-runner “La La Land” not nominated in the category, most expected a contest between “Moonlight” or “Manchester by the Sea.” “This story is about unity,” […]
The blue music of “Fences” sings with a ferocious beauty in Denzel Washington’s long-in-coming adaptation of August Wilson’s masterpiece of African-American survival and sorrow. Transfers from stage to screen often serve up only a pale reflection of the electric, live-wire theater experience. But Washington, in his good sense, has neither strained to make August’s Pulitzer […]
Now looking to be released (in a limited form) on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) instead of 01-06-17, to qualify as an Oscar hopeful, is Hidden Figures from Fox starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae. And if you’re feenin’ to see the film on Christmas day, you’re probably interested in knowing what theaters in […]
John Singleton spoke to civil rights activist Deray Mckesson during last weekend’s ComplexCon at The Long Beach Convention Center about the unreleased biopic of Tupac Shakur All Eyez on Me. According to reports, the director is not convinced that the movie will be a proper chronicle of the rap legend’s life and career. Singleton, who was […]
Audiences were introduced to an all-Black, all-female quartet of actresses with the debut of the bank robbery thriller, Set It Off. The film, directed by Straight Outta Compton’s F. Gary Gray, made its debut 20 years ago on Nov. 6, 1996, and helping to propel the careers of its leading ladies. Starring Jada Pinkett […]
With Boo! A Madea Halloween earning $56.5 million domestically on a $20 million budget, Tyler Perry and Lionsgate have decided to partner on two more films — one of which will feature Madea in yet another setting, reports Variety. The studio has already made a ton of bank from releasing Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection, Madea Goes […]
