Over the years, there’s only been one festival that I rarely miss and it’s the Fantasia Film Festival. Every year all movie junkies, cinephiles, film freaks, film aholics and popcorn munchers gather to enjoy a cinematic celebration. In 2018 I discovered Bodied...
“You are the perfect verse over a tight beat”… Dre – Brown Sugar. At the turn of the millennium, a gem of a film was released, produced by the great Magic Johnson. Brown Sugar is the story of a friendship between two hip hop lovers and enthusiasts. A stellar...
Here is a movie that blends comedy and hip hop very well: Top Five. By the way, this flick is the inspiration behind our literary Top Five section. It also brings light to the Haitian Revolution’s first major contributor in the person of Dutty Boukman. Being of...
Circa 1988, Michael Jackson released the musical film Moonwalker, an experimental anthology of some of his music taken from the album Bad. 10 years later, Jigga came with his own version of an anthology. A medley of songs from his first 2 opuses: 1996’s Reasonable...
I’m neither a politician nor a civil rights activist, but in the backdrop of the covid-19 crisis and the public murder of George Floyd, I can’t help but point out that police brutality has been around for many decades. Here comes the not so great movie “Colors” that...
“What you doing on our turf, punk?” The Education of Sonny Carson was one of the 1st movie about the struggle of being black in the ghetto with issues such as drug abuse, local gang life, poverty, prison life, police discrimination and brutality… basically...