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25 March 2019 Comments Off on Diversity Rules at Oscars!

Diversity Rules at Oscars!

2019 reigned in the new year with an exceptional cast of nominations in all categories of this years Oscars. A record breaking academy awards ceremony brought in a multiple of nominations and earnings of 10 award winners to people of color. Topping the list of winners was the Academy after receiving backlash and boycotts in […]

17 March 2018 Comments Off on “Black Panther” A $1 Billion Box Office Superhero!

“Black Panther” A $1 Billion Box Office Superhero!

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name which will head into this weekend with a massive $578 million domestic and $1.12 billion worldwide sales. The North American theatrical distrabution receipts make it the second-highest grossing superhero film in domestic history, behind only 2012’s The Avengers. This weekends revenue […]

16 March 2018 Comments Off on Jordan Peele Wins Oscar for Best Original Screenplay!

Jordan Peele Wins Oscar for Best Original Screenplay!

Jordan Peele’s film “Get Out” has placed him in the uniqually into Oscar history books in the category of Best Original Screenplay. Peele was crowned the winner at Sunday’s Academy Awards making him the first African-American screenwriter to receive the honor. In his speech, Peele thanked the people “who raised my voice and let me […]

22 June 2017 Comments Off on Tupac Revealed in “All Eyez On Me”!…

Tupac Revealed in “All Eyez On Me”!…

The true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur from his early days in New York to his status as one of the world’s most recognized and influential voices.

28 January 2017 Comments Off on “Fences” Delivers Oscar Nods for Denzel Washington and Viola Davis!

“Fences” Delivers Oscar Nods for Denzel Washington and Viola Davis!

Fences is an American drama film directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name. Paramount Pictures has offered up a first look at what could be one of the studio’s biggest awards contenders of the year. “Fences” is a feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning […]

27 January 2017 Comments Off on Mahershala Ali wins SAG and Oscar Award!

Mahershala Ali wins SAG and Oscar Award!

Mahershala Ali is an American actor that began his career as a regular on series such as Crossing Jordan before his breakthrough role as “Richard Tyler” in the science-fiction series The 4400. For his performance in the 2016 film as drug dealer Juan in Moonlight (2016), Ali received universal acclaim from critics and was nominated for an […]

26 January 2017 Comments Off on “Hidden Figures” The Untold True Story!

“Hidden Figures” The Untold True Story!

Hidden Figures is an American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the sane name by Margot Lee Shetterly which is about female African-American mathematicians at NASA. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project […]

15 May 2016 Comments Off on “Southside With You”…Barack and Michelle!

“Southside With You”…Barack and Michelle!

It’s a drama about Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson’s first date, in Chicago, in the summer of 1989. It stars Parker Sawyers as the twenty-eight-year-old Barack, a Harvard Law student and summer associate at a Chicago law firm, and Tika Sumpter, who also co-produced the film, as the twenty-five-year-old Michelle, a Harvard Law graduate and a […]

4 May 2016 Comments Off on Nate Parker Stars and Directs Epic! “Birth of a Nation”

Nate Parker Stars and Directs Epic! “Birth of a Nation”

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself and his fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

8 June 2015 Comments Off on N.W.A. Movie Coming to Theaters Soon!

N.W.A. Movie Coming to Theaters Soon!

The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.  This film is coming soon to a theater near you.  “Compton hasn’t changed,” Ice Cube says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. “It’s wack. It’s pretty […]