In the tradition of the great New York City comedic duos comes the contemporary slapstick team of 40 and Leroy. Join cousins 40oz (Lorenzo Eduardo) and Leroy (Horace Glasper), along with a host of crazy characters, as they explore the highs and lows of the life of everyday urban youth living in the city.
How crazy can things get for them? Watch this clip to find out.
Tina Gordon Chism releases her first feature film Peeples today in theaters nationwide. The film marks one of extremely few times a major Hollywood company backs a film directed by a black woman.
Peeples tells the story of a happily cohabitating couple who are deeply in love, except for one catch: he hasn’t met the in-laws.
Congrats to all the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards winners! The annual AMAA ceremony took place on April 20.
Below is the full list of winners, along with sneak peeks of select films:
Best Short Film: Kwaku Ananse (Ghana)
Best Diaspora Documentary: Fan Do Brasil (Brazil/Guadeloupe)
Best Animation: Adventure Of Zambezia (South Africa)
Best Film By Africans Abroad: Last Flight To Abuja (UK/Nigeria)
President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and his adversaries at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington.
He tickled his audience – who included actors Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Claire Danes and South Korean singer Psy.
The president ended his speech playing a taped piece with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg who did a spoof claiming his new project would be a movie on the president called “Obama” starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Mr Obama then appeared acting as if he were Day-Lewis preparing for the role.
Some great films are on the horizon for 2013…the feature film debut by filmmaker Tina Gordon Chism. A documentary about the most dominant sisters ever in the history of women’s tennis. A young Latina entering the world of hip hop.
Check out the trailers below!
After Earth (Opens June 7)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Zoe Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo
Synopsis: A father and son crash land on Earth 1,000 years into the future.
Peeples (Opens May 10)
Director: Tina Gordon Chism
Cast: Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson
Synopsis: Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage.
Venus and Serena (Opens May 10)
Director: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
Cast: Venus Williams, Serena Williams
Synopsis: Venus and Serena takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen.
The African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) will take place on April 20 in Bayelsa. Ghanaian actress and British television presenter Ama K. Abebrese, Nigerian actress Dakore Egbuson and comedian AY will host the ceremony.
Africa’s most prestigious motion picture award ceremony, the AMAA annually celebrates and honors filmmakers and other professionals in film across the African diaspora. In addition to highlighting the best of African movies, foreign films from America, Canada, France, Germany, Guadalupe, Italy, Jamaica, and the UK also got nominations.
Watch trailers from top films and see the full list of nominations below:
At age 70, legendary fllm critic Roger Ebert passed earlier this week on April 4, 2013.
Ebert reported for at the Chicago Sun Times for 46 years, starting in 1967. He also starred in the wildly popular television series At the Movies with fellow film critic Gene Siskel.
Later, after Siskel’s death in 1999, Ebert ran a blog of film reviews. He wrote more than 300 reviews in 2012 alone.
In 1975 Roger Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. And in 2007, Forbes magazine called Ebert the most powerful critic. He’s also the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Throughout his career, he wrote over 15 books about movies.
The movie ‘polymath’ Tyler Perry has stepped up to the pulpit in his new Temptation. This film is perhaps Tyler Perry’s biggest stamp on his belief in conservative marriage and family structure.
There’s no doubt that Tyler Perry’s work has long proclaimed religion, thrusting Christian principles at the center of most of his films and triumphantly upholding those value systems in his movies.
But perhaps never have those biases been entrenched more so than in this floppy fable he has under his eloquent erudition decided single-handedly to call, “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor.”
Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning Western, Django Unchained, is one of relatively few Hollywood films depicting a black cowboy. In reality there were many, some of whose stories were borrowed for films starring white actors.
The most common image of the cowboy is a gun-toting, boot-wearing, white man – like John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood.
But the Hollywood portrayal of the Wild West is a whitewashed version of the reality. It is thought, by very conservative estimates, that about a quarter of all cowboys were black.
Like many people, Jim Austin – a college-educated, 45-year-old businessman – who hadn’t heard about the black presence in the Old West was flabbergasted at the truth.
Writer/director/producer/creator R.L. Scott (Touye Pwen, Kill Point has a brand new original series… Fixer.
Move over Kerry Washington (Scandal). There’s another powerful-black-woman role in town. See for yourself.
FIXER: Official Trailer
The crowd-funding campaign for Oya: Rise of the Orisha is currently underway!
The film resurrects mythical deities from African folklore, known as Orishas, into modern-day superheroes in Britain. The film will be presented in a visually unique style drawing inspiration from related genres, including sci-fi, action and martial arts and presenting a truly phenomenal spectacle in the art of film.
Without question, the highlight of Sunday night’s Academy Awards show was cute little 9-year old Quvenzhané Wallis flexing her muscles. Shirley Bassey (who sang Goldfinger), Jennifer Hudson (And I Am Telling You), and Adele (Skyfall) also put on a show with their standout vocal performances. Yet as usual, the program ran entirely too long at 3 1/2 hours (or more if you watched the red carpet), with all awards the 40 million viewers really wanted to see happening in a short span of 30 minutes.
The 2013 Oscars can very well be described as 3 1/2 hours you’ll never get back, though most viewers probably didn’t have anything better to watch since their favorite shows were running reruns.
If you thought the Oscars were a yawn or didn’t watch, here are five ways we suggest would make the annual award ceremony better:
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