Film
The Many Talents of REV. DR. WARREN A. RHODES
Warren A. Rhodes of Dover, Delaware is no stranger to the theater and Screen. Rhodes wrote and directed the original gospel musical stage plays, “The Sermon” (1989) and “The Sermon II: The Plan” (1991). Both plays tou...
Love and Deceit: A look at independent film maker, Joseph Johnson.
Writer/Director/Executive Producer Born on September 10th, Joseph Johnson is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a specialized degree in filmmaking from the Parsons New School in New York. This man of many talents mad...
The Hate U Give
The rapper Tupac Shakur once broke down the acronym for his mantra “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.”: “The hate you gave little infants [expletive] everybody,” he said of systematic injustices. “What you feed us as seeds, grows and...
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Director Barry Jenkins, whose last film, Moonlight, won a Best Picture Oscar is back with his sophomore effort, If Beale Street Could Talk, based on author James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. Jenkins is working with ...
East Side Su-She
For centuries, in seemingly, ever country, male dominance has been at the forefront of every society. Many cultures to this day, hold steadfast to the past treatment of women as inferior, and less than. In our more modernistic ...
Running For His Life
I happened upon a documentary, “Running for His Life” while flipping through the movie section of our streaming network, about former NFL player and college phenom Lawrence Phillips. What garnered my attention was how the p...
QUINCY
With nearly 3,000 songs recorded, 300 albums, 51 film and television scores, and 27 Grammy awards, Quincy Jones is to put it mildly, undoubtedly a living legend. ‘QUINCY’, the documentary directed by Rashida Jones and Alan ...
The Black Panther: All about History and Lineage
In April of 1966, six months before the Black Panther Party was established, Marvel Comic’s Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created a new superhero that was a native of an African continent, who was a black prince from one of the wea...
Mudbound
The film ‘Mudbound’ takes place in rural Mississippi where a young white family comes to acquire the management of a farm that is being sharecropped by a black family. This is taking place at the end of the fighting in Euro...
GOOK
A film about race and family set against the backdrop of the L.A. Riots Los Angeles, CA (April 19, 2017) – Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today the acquisition of the 2017 Sundance audience award winner GOOK. The film, writt...