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For a change, just to be different before I literally leave the country, I’m going to be really nice and not say a negative thing about Sisqo’s new music video Unleash The Dragon. Believe me there are a LOT of nasty things I could say about it, but I’ll leave it up to you. But [...]
These are truly the dog days of summer. A ho-hum box office report for a ho-hum week. Nothing much to crow about except George Clooney’s The American was No. 1, and The Last Exorcism dropped almost 60%, no doubt because of bad word of mouth, due to its twist ending which EVERYBODY hates. (And I’m not [...]
Bruce Lee’s final film, The Game of Death, is pretty much a laughable disaster, except for the locker room fight with “Carl Miller” (Anyone who loves Bruce Lee and his movies knows what I’m taking about: “You lose Carl Miller!”) and the final three fight scenes. But there’s a good reason why it’s so bad.
I must give all credit to Issa Rae who first posted this trailer for this straight-to-DVD (despite the voiceover saying it’s “coming to theaters”) “urban” film on her site, and I had to share it with all of you. Talk about a LAFF RIOT!
Here’s a picture I took earlier this evening of Night Catches Us writer and director Tanya Hamilton, taken during a break at the closing night of the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago.
If you’ve never taken a look at it, by all means check out the website Trailers from Hell (HERE), one of the best sites about movies (… that is along with S & A).
As Tambay reported last month (HERE), Sean Baker’s film Prince of Broadway (which I have to brag we screened at last year’s Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago), will be released theatrically in New York (Sept. 3), LA (Sept. 24), and Chicago (Oct. 1), through Elephant Eye, thanks to Lee Daniels, who is a huge fan [...]
According to film blogger David Poland, Tyler Perry’s (sorry I tried to find a more masculine picture of him but I just couldn’t…) upcoming film version of For Colored Girls “is a lock to end up in this year’s Oscar race come December.”
So as we all know, Fantasia Barrino and Alicia Keys have gotten themselves involved in scandals with married men. We touched on the Keys case recently (HERE). So let’s now look at Fantasia, particularly, some comments she made recently.
So, the reader who predicted that Takers would do $21 million in S & A’s “Guess takers opening box office,” hit it right on the head, because that’s what the film made, doing slightly better than yesterday’s box office predictions.
All our readers in the Chicagoland area will have a chance to finally see the film that Tambay just can’t stop raving about, Legacy, with Idris Elba, directed by Thomas Ikimi.
Since everyone is interested in what Takers will do at the box office, the info coming in now is that the film will come in second, pulling in an estimated $20.3 million, getting beat by The Last Exorcism, which will do about $23.2 million.
Last night I met one of our regular readers of S & A (and a very attractive one if I do say so myself speaking as a guy…), and we got into a conversation about how often black actors and actresses I’ve met in person, are much better looking than they appear on screen.
I admit I haven’t seen a complete episode of Saturday Night Live in more than a decade. With the exception of those Tina Fey as Sarah Palin bits, which are real gems, it ceased to be funny and cutting edge a century ago, black in 1869…(no that wasn’t a typo either)
This week it was reported that Anthony Mackie was one of three actors up for the role of the lead opposite Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible IV (yes that’s right they’re making another one), slated to begin production very soon, to be directed by Brad Bird, an interesting choice since Bird will be making his live [...]
No secret that a lot of big name film directors direct TV commercials. (Spielberg is the only one that come to mind who hasn’t). I think it was Ridley Scott and Spike Lee, who’s done his far share of TV spots for over 20 years, who both made it cool for film directors to tip [...]
That’s the thing about Shadow And Act. If we don’t stay on top of what’s going on in black cinema who will?
Here’s a sort of wacky trailer for director Danny Boyle’s new film 127 Hours, with James Franco, about the true story of Aron Ralston, the free-spirited mountain climber and adventurer, who was forced to cut off his own arm, after he was trapped by a boulder. The film is making its premiere at the Toronto [...]
The late 1960’s were a hell of time. It looked like the country was ripping apart at the seams. There was the Vietnam war going on full blast (even worse because of the Viet Cong Tet offensive the year before, which the U.S. military was totally unprepared for), the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, urban riots torching major cities, [...]
Back almost a year ago I wrote an item about Charles Burnett’s documentary-in-the-making – Stanley Ann Dunham: A Most Generous Spirit – about the life and story of President Barack Obama’s mother (HERE).
The Toronto International Film festival today announced an additional 102 films to their schedule, making it the most comprehensive and wide ranging film festival in the world… well not exactly.
If you’re looking for a job, the Department of Justice just might have the opportunity that you’re looking for. They announced yesterday that they are searching for up to nine Ebonics experts to work in the DEA field office in Atlanta, to “help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics [...]
There aren’t a whole lot of films being made in the Dominican Republic and most of them are usually shown at international or Latino film festivals. But here’s a Dominican feature film that is getting a limited theatrical release – La Soga (The Rope), directed by Josh Crook. The film, which stars, and was written and produced by [...]
I had this conversation with someone a few days ago who claimed to be an expert on the film business and it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what he said.
Just like last week once again MEN ruled supreme making The Expendables No. 1 at the box office chart again (and if that comment makes me a vile, disgusting, sexist pig then I claim the title proudly and, baby, you have absolutely NO idea just how vile and disgusting I can be).
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