Tuesday, May 18 2010
Fear of a Rap Parody
Underrated in the annals of hip-hop cinema, Rusty Cundieff's Fear of a Black Hat is biting and unflinching, and forces hip-hop fans to stare soberly at the culture's flaws and to revisit their own reasons for loving the music.
Thursday, November 29 2007
Talk to Me
Vibrant, exuberant, colorful and irresistibly alive, Talk to Me is a celebration of a lifestyle as much as a life -- the thumping funk, soul and R&B of the late '60s, early '70s.
Thursday, August 30 2007
A Tough Road for Hollywood’s Female Film Directors
Like most big-time movie directors, Kasi Lemmons had a studio driver to take her to and from the set of her new film, Talk to Me. "He said he'd driven 130 directors," Lemmons recalled. "And I was the first woman director he'd driven."
Friday, July 13 2007
Don Cheadle gets the word out about ‘Talk to Me’
“You do what you are able to do,” says Cheadle. “That’s my responsibility as a human. But as an actor, you know, I don’t always want to represent all that is good and noble. Sometimes you just want to, you know, get down a little bit.”
Talk To Me (2007)
Part biopic, part portrait of an era, Talk to Me presents an ongoing dilemma -- what does it mean to be "black enough" and how does "talk" shape the question and answers?
Monday, August 23 2004
Candyman: Special Edition (1992)
Kasi Lemmons says, 'The Candyman is born of extreme racism against him.'"
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Caveman’s Valentine (2001)
Despite and sometimes because of its unevenness, the film conveys the delusions of daily existence with fierce poetry.
