Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘Y’all seen Magic Mike right? Now we gonna add a little chocolate’ intones Michael Jai White before the opening credits of the movie. What he fails to mention is that they have also added a lot more cheese and a great deal of soap too in this all-black take off of the 2012 smash hit … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guidePoor Malcolm seems like he should have been born in a different place and a different skin. He and his two best friends Jib and Diggy live in Bottoms the worst part of Los Angeles’s Inglewood where most of the population are either poor African/American or Latino. They however are fixated on BMX biking, classic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is a melodrama about 14 different African-American women loosely connected who are united by their color and all the bad things men have done to them. Based on an award winning Play from the 1970’s (full title For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf), which was technically a choreo-poem, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe epic domestic drama of how Cecil Gaines a young negro slave from a Southern cotton plantation evolved into a Butler to a string of US Presidents in The White House also serves as a backdrop for the birth and survival of the Civil Rights Movement through the last century. It’s a powerful tale that doesn’t … Continue reading
