From the “Coming 2 Nostalgia” File…Both Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall have remarked that they never intended to make a sequel to “COMING TO AMERICA.” Yet they decided to do one eventually because over the years, fans of the film kept asking if there would be one and they felt compelled to catch up to […]
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Read More One Night In Miami…2020 Jam21 Entertainment/Seven Word Letter Films/Amazon Studios Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe Produced by Eugene Ashe/Nnamdi Asomugha/Gabrielle Glore/Jonathan Baker/Matthew Thurm Music by Fabrice Lecomte Cinematography by Declan Quinn Edited by Dana Congdon While it isn’t necessary to be familiar with the films of Douglas Sirk to enjoy SYLVIE’S LOVE it also doesn’t hurt to […]
Read More Sylvie’s Love2020 Directed, Written, Narrated and Produced by Chris Bournea Cinematography by Paul Hill/April Martin Edited by Paul Hill I myself don’t know a whole lot about Wrestling as a sport or as entertainment. Back in the 1980s I was a casual fan of the WWF (now known as the WWE) and of G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies […]
Read More Lady Wrestler: The Amazing, Untold Story of African-American Women In The RingIf there were a theme running through the second season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it would be called… …the mean season. Peele still sticks to the spirit of Rod Serling’s brainchild, but there are a lot of episodes that would’ve fit more in the horror vein as a continuation of Serling’s […]
Read More The Twilight Zone Season Two Review by Sean E. Ali2019 Knuckle Sandwich Productions/Indie Rights Written and Directed by Detdrich McClure Produced by David Douglas/Kiarra Graves/Raymond James Herrera/LaCora Stephens/Detdrich McClure Music by Jairo Duarte-Lopez/Michael Eremiasova Cinematography by Adam Gan Edited by Brian Uskokovich When Patricia and I get together in the evenings to watch a movie I like to let her pick what we watch. […]
Read More Brown Paper Bag1975 New World Pictures Directed by William Witney Produced by Gene Corman Written by George Armitage “In fact, if you look from today’s perspective at 1970’s exploitation movies, they look like they were made on another planet. The basic elements in these movies are things you couldn’t put in movies today” -Joe Dante This is […]
Read More Darktown Strutters1976 Ramana Productions/Po’ Boy Productions Directed by Fred Williamson Written by Jolivett Cato/Charles Walker Music by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson Here’s the thing that made Fred Williamson stand out from other male Blaxploitation stars of the 1970s: even then he wasn’t satisfied with just acting in those violent action thrillers. Even then he had an eye toward […]
Read More Mean Johnny Barrows2019 Lionsgate Written and Directed by Wes Miller Produced by Curtis Nichouls/Henry Penzi/Sasha Yelaun Music by Sid De La Cruz/Savannah Latham Cinematography by Michael Brouphy Edited by Rowan Maher In the space of a decade give or take two or three years, Bass Reeves has gone from being the most famous lawman of The Old […]
Read More Hell On The BorderA FALL FROM GRACE 2020 Tyler Perry Studios/Netflix Written and Directed by Tyler Perry Produced by Tyler Perry/Mark E. Swinton/Will Areu/Michelle Sneed Music by Jay Weigel Cinematography by Terrence Burke Edited by Larry Sexton You walk into a McDonald’s because you’re hungry and you don’t feel like going through the trouble of cooking for yourself […]
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