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Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr and Rex Ingram make a fascinating star trio in the 1958 American drama film Anna Lucasta, an all-African-American version of Philip Yordan’s long-running 1944 stage play. Director Arnold Laven’s 1958 […]
Stormy Weather (1943): ‘HOORAY FOR RHYTHM! HALLELUJAH FOR FUN’. Director Andrew L Stone’s 1943 black and white film Stormy Weather stars Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, Fats Waller and Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra. […]
‘Strike up the band, here comes happiness, in a merry medley of romance and rhythm’: Birth of the Blues (1941). Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1941 Paramount Pictures musical hit Birth of the Blues stars Bing Crosby, […]
Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1991 Ricochet is a wildly tacky and violent action thriller with Denzel Washington as Nick Styles, a former cop turned LA assistant district attorney being dogged by psychopathic killer Earl Talbot Blake […]
The 74-year-old Charles Bronson stars as old cop Paul Fein in director Ted Kotcheff’s 1995 Family of Cops, the first of a series of three highly competent TV movie crime thrillers. A well cast Bronson […]
Director Spike Lee’s ambitious, lengthy but fast-paced 1992 biopic of the Sixties black activist is given special distinction by Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated star tour de force performance, full of power, passion and dignity. Malcolm X […]
Director Bill Duke’s 1991 neo noir thriller A Rage in Harlem is based on Chester Himes’s novel and stars Forest Whitaker as clumsy but nice Harlem hero Jackson, who meets and falls for sassy and […]