Archive for the ‘African American Cinema’ Category
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2005Amazon.com
Ken Burns’s documentary style is so unencumbered; the subject matter is effortlessly presented. His regular mix of photos, subtle sound effects, excellent musical score, and actor readings of historical text hasn’t changed since his breakthrough of The Civil War. And it doesn’t need to. Even though this 220-minute production is a biography–on heavyweight champion Jack Johnson–the film reson… More >>
Unforgivable Blackness – The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Description
When a Medieval World theme park worker (Lawrence) is magically transported back to 14th century England, he must do battle with an evil king, deadly assassins – and really bad plumbing!Amazon.com
In Black Knight, Martin Lawrence plays an amusement park employee who is magically transported back to medieval times and helps return a queen to her rightful throne (while learning some valuable lessons along the way). Despite the script’s lack of logic and originality,… More >>
Black Knight
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Description
The hilarious Steve Martin (FATHER OF THE BRIDE) and Academy Award(R)-nominee Queen Latifah (Best Supporting Actress, 2002, CHICAGO) star with Eugene Levy (AMERICAN PIE) in the laugh-out-loud hit comedy BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE. Peter Sanderson (Martin), a divorced, straitlaced, uptight workaholic attorney, meets a brainy bombshell lawyer in an on-line chat room and they make a date. Expecting his soul mate, he opens the door and finds himself face-to-face with Charlene (Lat… More >>
Bringing Down The House
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Description
The Battle of the Sexes Has Never Been Funnier…
The Hit Oxygen Channel Show – Completely Uncut and Unedited With a new book deal, a fabulous apartment and a stable relationship, psychologist turned sex expert Kate Langford (Rachael Crawford) is living her dream. But when her publisher pairs her up with the arrogant yet irresistible PhD, Benjamin Chase (Adam Harrington), for her next book, Kate realizes she still has a lot to learn…. More >>
Show Me Yours: The Complete Series
Posted in African American Cinema | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Description
DOWN IN THE DELTA brings together an outstanding cast of stars in an uplifting story of family, community, and friendship! In a desperate attempt to change her life, Loretta (Alfre Woodard — STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, MUMFORD) — a troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood — is sent to spend a summer in her family’s ancestral home in rural Mississippi. In “The Delta,” with the support and widsom of her hardworking Uncle Earl, Loretta finally begins to see a … More >>
Down in the Delta
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Description
Urban auteur filmmakers, the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents) hitthe mean streets with an “incredibly entertaining and charismatic” (Shout) expose on real-life pimps. A “snappy, stylish documentary” (The New York Post) containing “blunt, raw power and stylistic energy” (The Hollywood Reporter), American Pimp is “a primer on pimp craftand culture” (Shout) that takes you into the shadowy world of prostitution, “putting on the screen everything you ever wan… More >>
American Pimp
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Description
Get ready to groove with this heartwarming comedy full of love and friendship, starring sexy Angela Bassett and comic superstar and Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg. Through good times and bad, Stella (Bassett) and Delilah (Goldberg) have always had each other. Now, Stella’s so busy building a life that she’s forgotten to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as … More >>
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Description
Slicker than a Harlem shakedown, Across 110th Street “hits hard” (Cue) with a jacked-up, smacked-down thrill-ride through the hell-raisin’ hoods of Harlem! Cooler-than-cool Anthony Quinn leads a hot cast, including Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto, in a “hair-raising” (Motion Picture Herald) cop thriller that packs a double barrel of “gory vengeance raw, ugly and unnervingly real” (Playboy)! When a crew of gun-totin’ gangstas knocks over a Mafia racket in Harlem, their p… More >>
Across 110th Street
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Amazon.com essential video
Spike Lee’s 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another out of frustration with social… More >>
Jungle Fever
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Product Description
In this breakthrough film an idealistic hustler becomes militant after witnessing police brutality and corruption.DVD Special Features:All new making of by Melvin Van Peebles: The Real Deal (What it Was Is) remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1/Stereo filmography chapter selection original theatrical trailerSystem Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 000799106426 Manufacturer No: 23138Amazon.com
Raw, jagged, and… More >>
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Posted in African American Cinema | 5 Comments »
