The International Black Film Festival of Nashville has honored Melvin and Mario Van Peebles for innovative film making. Festival officials said in a news release that the father-son team has emerged years in front of their counterparts.

I love me some Harry Belafonte – the man just doesn’t age. His film “Odds Against Tomorrow,” was featured at Chicago’s Noir City Film Festival: A Celebration of Classic Hollywood Film Noirs.
Odds Against Tomorrowis a 1959 film about a bank heist gone array because of the racism of two of the bank robbers. Belafonte sat [...]

Expect to see Denzel Washington as a badass anti-hero in 2010’s The Book of Eli:
Visually, the movie looks something like The Matrix crossed with Road Warrior, with silvered, smoky air and stylized fights. In a discussion at Comic-Con after the clips aired, Washington said that he’d done almost all the fight scenes in the movie [...]

.I was talking to a friend the other day about the horror that was Transformers 2 came up. Of course we talked about the coon fest the was Skids and Mudflap and he pointed out to me a fact that I’d forgotten – one of those two illiterate morons changed into a monkey.
A monkey?
Combine that [...]

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This is Day 3 of my 7 day tribute to Michael Jackson. You can find the first two here and here. Today I’m looking at the best Michael Jackson was King of the long-form video. He often made mini-films instead of just videos and he single-handedly changed the way the video was made with 1984’s [...]

It was on regular TV and I was HOOKED. Man the music, the story, Michael Jackson, yep it was the best thing since cornbread to me. And Eveline? Whew. She scared the bejesus out of me as did those motorcycle/flying monkeys. I had a second grade teacher that I used to secretly call Eveline. She was about her size, color and walked just like her. Man oh man, talk about being on your best behavior.

While BET is/was definitely scrambling to ensure that Sunday’s BET Awards provides a tribute to Michael Jackson that is worthy of his life and influence on the music industry and the world, it seems like the artists themselves are then willing to sacrifice their performances to ensure they offer proper homage as well