WATCH: Clips from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Play, “Choir Boy”
Here are exclusive clips from Academy Award Winning “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Broadway play, “Choir Boy.”
Netflix’s Love Death & Robots
I don’t think animation gets the respect it deserves. Case in point; many social media feeds and websites that cater to people of color highlighted all the Black people that were nominated and won Oscars in their respected categories but didn’t even mention Spider-Man Into…
Quick Spoiler Free Thoughts On Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Us is a comedic-suspenseful-horror film adding to a body of work that could be the beginning of Jordan Peele’s reign as ‘Master of Horror’. Following up the racially charged hit Get Out, Us feels a bit more expansive and if you’ve seen the trailers you already know…
Damned If You Blue, Damned If You Don’t
When Disney first dropped their live action adaptation of Aladdin featuring Will Smith as ‘Genie’, folk were upset because he was not blue. Being that the animated version included a blue genie voiced by Robin Williams…folk don’t like change or studios fucking up their nostalgia….
MA – Starring Octavia Spencer
Don’t you hate it when you feel a trailer gives away the whole dame movie? I feel like the trailer for ‘MA’ does just that. From what I can tell the film is a thriller set in a small town. It features MA who appears…
Bravado & Action are on tap in Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw
I’m not a huge F&F fan, as such, I haven’t seen one of the films in a couple of years. The last one I believe I saw (months after its debut) was F&F 6, which Cypher Ave co-founder Nick Delmacy did a review when it…
After 3 Test Screenings, Viewers Still Think X-Men Dark Phoenix Sucks
Test screeners are speaking out stating how horrible the Dark Phoenix is after multiple re-shoots. Directed by Simon Kinberg (more on him below), the Dark Phoenix was supposed to premier November 2018. It was then pushed back to February 2019 and has finally been pushed…
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films
Premiering February 7th, Horror Noire brings to the screen the acclaimed book by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman. Directed by Xavier Burgin, Horror Noire discusses the history and depiction of Black people in Horror. Just viewing the trailer brought back so many memories while acknowledging…
Netflix’s High Flying Bird
Moonlight’s Oscar winner writer, Tarell Alvin McCraney, has written a new film premiering on Netfilx Friday, February 8. High Flying Bird stars Andre Holland (also from Moonlight) and is shot on entirely on iPhone. High Flying Bird is directed by Steven Soderbergh who also…
Closeted Rapper Finds His Truth in Web Series ‘Single Record’
We’ve seen the story of the DL closeted rapper finding love, not know how to deal with it, subsequently being outed and then dealing with the consequences; similarly in The LA Complex and Empire. Filmmaker Nelson “Moses” Lassiter adds his creative perspective to rehash this…
WATCH: Trailer for “MARZ,” Upcoming Hip-Hop Version of “Moonlight”
Directed by five-time Emmy Award winner, Bobby Yan, this short film “MARZ” tells the story of childhood friends exploring their sexuality and dealing with the fallout of emotion and confusion.
Short Film Review – In The Dark
I usually don’t watch gay short films or web-series due to their typical clichés and stereotypes such as: A group of sassy friends, with the main protagonist looking for love with over the top acting and shade. Masculinity only being represented in the form of…
Black Panther – Already Making the Earth Shake
The final trailer for Black Panther has been released and the countdown has begun. Those who will see Black Panther in IMAX will get a special visual treat because select scenes were specifically designed for IMAX screens. Those scenes will have an expanded 1.9:11 ratio…
WATCH: Office Workplace Horror Spoof “Working With Jigsaw” + “Saw” Franchise Eye Candy
You’ll definitely get a kick out of this workplace comedy spoof the the series called, “Working with Jigsaw.” The short features the iconic Jigsaw puppet “torturing” his co-workers with his annoying games around the office.
I’m Down to my Last Black Nerds Sci-Fi group on Facebook
My crossing into the sci-fi event horizon was in the early 80’s with influences by Flash Gordon, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heavy Metal magazine, Conan the Barbarian, X-Men comics and Millipede the video game. I feel like I must include kung fu theater in…
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