Narrated by Ben Harper and Tariq "Black Thought" of The Roots, the 75-minuted documentary film Whitewash will be available on DVD and VOD on October 4, 2011.
Read More »Not really sure what to make of this trailer for a film called Herpes Boy, which Octavia Spencer from The Help co-stars in.
Read More »In my review of Djo Tunda Wa Munga's crime drama, Viva Riva!, I highlighted the film's audacious depictions of the kind of orchestrated sexuality and violence rarely seen in African cinema (specifically cinema of the DRC - the Democratic Republic Of The Congo, where such scenes are taboo); a kind of...
Read More »Black films that came out during the 1970's get too often shortchanged when people dismiss them as just "blaxplotataion" movies. The reality was that there was an extraordinary range of black films released threatrically during that period that dealt with every type of genre from action to dramas to...
Read More »It's raked in over $600 million in worldwide box office since its April release. Nice chunk of change! You can guarantee that another one will be made.
Read More »Undoubtedly one of the most obscure and rarely seen films from the 1970's is the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia. The low budget film, which was based on an original screenplay by Maya Angelou is often mistakingly credited as also being directed by her too.
Read More »We covered this film on the old S&A site, while it was still playing the festival circuit, and when it enjoyed a lengthy though limited theatrical run in 2010.
Read More »Your reactions to the film were mixed - some enjoyed it, others didn't. C'est la vie... so it goes.
Read More »Well, I've been waiting for this to happen, and finally it is. Lionsgate Home Video announced earlier this week that Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown with Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro and Robert Forester is finally coming out on blu-ray DVD, on October 4th.
Read More »And the winner of the 5th and FINAL S&A Mooz-lum DVD Giveaway contest is... Emmanuel Akitobi! Congrats Emmanuel! Send me an email at the same address you submitted your trivia answer to, with your mailing address, so that I can forward to the Mooz-lum marketing team to get you your DVD! By the way, ...
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