Hollywood is no stranger to getting it wrong when it comes to Black History. From fantasy films to revenge slave dramas, time and again,Hollywood has really tried it. They’ve even re-written African history and removed us from it. When it seems they’ve had the best intentions, some of these films have fallen completely flat. And even when […]
Daniele Watts and her beau are standing by their story that they weren’t doing anything dirty when cops picked them up in October. Neither the…
Daniele Watts (pictured left) who co-starred in the film “Django Unchained,” has been charged with lewd conduct for allegedly engaging in a sexual act in…
New pictures of Daniele Watts (pictured in car) have been released of the actress straddling her husband in her car before her detainment last Thursday, according…
Actress Danièle Watts was “handcuffed and detained” by Los Angeles police officers Thursday. She and her husband explained from their Facebook pages that the incident…
“Django Unchained” proved to be one of the most controversial movies of 2012. From Black academics and intellectuals critiquing Quentin Tarantino’s depiction of slavery to…
Will Smith has begun the promo run for his up-coming sci-fi epic “After Earth” but he can’t jump ahead to the future just yet. In…
Real estate developer, television personality, conspiracy theory slinger, Internet troll, and now apparent faux film critic Donald Trump (pictured) was none too pleased with last…
After months of infighting amongst the black community over 2012′s most controversial movie, Quentin Tarantino was the clear winner when he walked away with an…
The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards were revealed this morning. While there weren’t too many surprises, the one shocker is the Best Actress nomination for the 8-year-old actress Quvenzhané Wallis, who made waves in the critically-acclaimed indie film “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Wallis becomes the youngest person ever to be nominated in a […]
Ex-Slave Exacts Vengeance in Tarantino Variation on Spaghetti Western There’s a sensible reason why nobody ever wanted to be an Indian whenever we played Cowboys and Indians as kids. That’s because the white man was invariably the hero of the Westerns on which we’d been weaned, while the red man had always been presented as […]
Denzel Washington and the new film Django Unchained are among the honorees named by the African-American Film Critics Association. Denzel earned recognition for his starring role in Flight, while Django Unchained earned a spot in AAFCA’s Top Ten Films of 2012. The independent films Middle of Nowhere and Beasts of the Southern Wild were also […]
