“Shirley,” the 2024 film written and directed by John Ridley(“12 Years A Slave”), astutely pays tribute to the trailblazing legacy of Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress and the first Black major-party candidate for President of the United States. Like last year’s film “Rustin,” we have another historically accurate […]
This is a western where you might feel “wrung dry” by the end. It’s a bit of a spoof on westerns in general, but it is also serious in demonstrating that black faces were ubiquitous throughout the post Civil War west, even among the cowboys. The subject of the movie, Nat Love, was actually a cowboy sometime
And what a night! After Cassius Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston in 1964, four friends meet to celebrate. They are prize-fighter Cassius Clay (Goree), NFL hero Jim Brown (Hodge), pop star Sam Cooke (Odom), and Malcolm X (Ben-Adir). Sitting in Malcolm X’s hotel room, the four reflect/argue about what they are and are not doing for the rights
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins highly anticipated new film opens exactly the way you would hope. A perfectly timed musical score from his “Moonlight” collaborating composer Nicholas Britell folds into the frame. The two lead actors (KiKi Layne and Stephan James) wearing outfits that compliment each other, slowly walk down the street daydreaming about their future