How far would you go for love? In the romantic comedy “Peeples” Craig Robinson is Wade Walker, a humble pre-school teacher with a big heart…
2013 just might go down in film history as the turning point for Black cinema. No longer limited to the yearly offering of Madea films…
It’s been thirteen years since writer and director Gina Prince-Bythewood brought movie fans the love story of childhood friends Quincy and Monica in the…
The late Roger Ebert loved movies. All kinds of movies. For over three decades he was one of the definitive voices in film criticism until…
2012 in black cinema can be best described as “For Us By Us.” No longer depending on the Hollywood machine to greenlight their stories, a…
There’s a wonderful phenomenon going on in black movies these days. From a business perspective, Think Like A Man proved that an all-black cast succeeded…
With the Valentine’s Day weekend upon us many folks will be looking for a flick to cuddle up with. But what are the choices? The sad fact is that seeing two Black people in love (or even lust) on the big screen is becoming more and more rare. Remember when it felt like we had […]
Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President (sorry, Bill Clinton does NOT count) the only time we saw a Commander-in-Chief of color was in the movies. Sometimes the portrayals were dignified (Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact) other times they were not (Terry Crews in Idiocracy), but nine times out of ten the world was […]
