Django’s Unchained Melody
I remember seeing the trailer for Quentin’s Tarantino “Django’s Unchained” a few months back and I groaned with the rest of the black members of the audience. Honestly, it wasn’t […]
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Red Tails: Another Tuskegee Experiment Gone Bad
I had had a long day, a very long and tiring day at work. I felt like Mr. Clark in “Lean On Me” when he decided to go to the parent […]
Hollywood Social Commentary is just ‘In Time’
I frequent the movies often enough so I had probably seen trailers for the Justin Timberlake movie “In Time” before most people and the concept that time itself was a […]
The Romanticized Victimhood of Black Women and “The Help”
I was able to see “The Help” back in July for a pre-screen and even after sitting on the front row and watching the grossly distorted images courtesy of looking […]
The ‘Inception’ of Reality into your Dream
SPOILER ALERT!!!! I wouldn’t consider myself a movie buff, but certainly I appreciate movies that are thoughtful that include a well written script, directed with some expertise and actors that […]
Oh How ‘Precious’
There are only two movies in my lifetime that I ever cried on–or rather allowed myself to cry on. The reuniting scene of Celie and Nettie in “The Color Purple” […]
From The Uppity Negro Network, Living In Liminality, The Typewriter Series Presents: “Horror Movie Husbands”
I’m doing a series, just about three or four, might be five, can’t remember, blog posts that I had actually typewritten on a Royal Typewriter Futura. These are my thoughts […]
Good and Bad, See If I Care, Good and Bad Hair
“Any hair is good hair as long it covers my head.” Mama Uppity That’s a scene from the cult classic Spike Lee Joint “School Daze” as Lee grapples with the […]
UNN Movie Review: Changeling
Okay, one down–one more to go. I was on the Academy Award’s list of nominees and I saw another movie I had seen last summer was up for nomination […]
UNN Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Okay, the Academy Awards are in two hours and some odd change, let’s see if I can knock out these movie reviews quick fast and in a hurry. Up on […]
