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After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]
Writer-director Ryan Coogler tells the true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African American California Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. It ends […]
Writer-director Malcolm D Lee’s 1999 ensemble comedy drama stars Taye Diggs as writer Harper Stewart, who lives in Chicago with his beautiful, devoted girlfriend Robin (Sanaa Lathan). His first book, an autobiographical novel entitled Unfinished Business, has been selected […]
Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]
In his second film (after She’s Gotta Have It in 1986), from way back 1988, young writer-director Spike Lee gives himself a crucial role as Half-Pint, the newcomer to the Gamma Phi Gamma college fraternity […]