African-American
The Skinny
This sassy new movie follows the lives of five Brown University graduates who are reuniting for NY’s Gay Pride weekend. They are all African-Americans too as it is after all the handiwork of Patrik-Ian Polk the filmmaker that brought us the unmissable ground-breaking TV series ‘Noah’s Arc’. In this latest work he continues the…
Pariah
A brilliant coming-of-age story of a butch black highly intelligent teenage girl who struggles to reconcile being gay within the confines of her conservative middle-class home. Her meddlesome bible-thumping mother is in denial of both her husband’s infidelity and her daughter’s sexuality thus creating more angst. A thought-provoking film enlivened with some neat touches…
FOR COLORED GIRLS
This 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,…
