Category: Movie Reviews

For Colored Girls is a fireball of raw, organic rage bundled into 120 minutes worth of film. All at once it’s ugly, beautiful and profoundly abstract, a dizzying triad of perceptions that will either stamp For Colored Girls a box office triumph or a commercial bomb. Critics may question whether mass audiences are ready (or […]

Even as a child, music was a critical part of Matthew Kennedy’s life. At 4 he played his first piano piece and starred in his own radio program by 12 in Macon, Ga. His exceptional musical gifts brought Kennedy from the deeply segregated South to New York City, where he studied at the Julliard School […]

Author and director E. Raymond Brown garnered notable recognition for his critically acclaimed self-published book, Will the Real Pimps and Ho’s Please Stand Up! Now, along with co-creator William H. Arntz, Brown is taking the conversation of exploitation in modern society to new heights with the film adaptation, Ghetto Physics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho’s […]

Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) is interning in Los Angeles at Pinnacle Records, a company struggling to stay afloat in an industry with bleak prospects. The slacker’s relationship with his M.D. girlfriend, Daphne (Elisabeth Moss), is severely strained, because they barely spend any quality time together, and they rarely even make love anymore. The standoff builds […]

BIG BUDGET FILMS Case 39 (R for violence, terror and disturbing images) Renee Zellweger stars in this psychological thriller about a naïve social worker who rescues an abused 10 year-old (Jodelle Ferland) from her parents (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O’Malley) only to discover that the girl isn’t as innocent as she looks. Hatchet II […]

While it appears that the hip-hop industry is mostly comprised of glitz, glamour and groupies, many are unaware of its cruel, harsh and sometimes dangerous realities. The Next Hit, a suspenseful thriller distributed by Barnholtz Entertainment, offers a fictional tale set in the rap world that exposes these realities and provides a glimpse into the […]

For years, four very close couples, friends since college, have been taking an annual vacation together to luxurious getaway spots to reconnect, reminisce, and reflect on the state of their marital relationships. Their previous reunion at a Colorado ski lodge proved very eventful, especially for the emotionally-abused Sheila (Jill Scott), who eventually summoned up the […]

Janks Morton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for poignant, tough-love documentaries about African-American males such as What Black Men Think and Men to Boys. Now, as the father of an 11-year-old girl poised on the brink of blossoming into a beautiful, but possibly vulnerable young woman, he was inspired to make sisters the subject […]

Hailing from Flint, Mich., Terry Crews has not only one of the most recognizable faces around, but maybe one of the most recognizable physiques as well. The handsome hunk is currently one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, having a trio of flicks released in August alone, namely, The Expendables, Lottery Ticket and Middle Men. […]

Sure, people say “money can’t buy happiness,” but when you’re young, living in the projects and sick of your surroundings, that old saying seems like a lie. Such is the case for Kevin Carson, the lead character in the Erik White film Lottery Ticket. Kevin, played by rapper/actor Bow Wow, is a recent high school […]

After serving his country in Vietnam, Henry Marrow (A.C. Sanford) returned to his hometown of Oxford, N.C., only to be murdered in broad daylight for allegedly leering at a White woman. On May 11, 1970, the 23 year-old African-American veteran left behind a pregnant widow (Milauna Jemai) and two young daughters, while the perpetrators of […]