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Steven Spielberg presents Obama ‘movie’

By Ben Daité | April 28, 2013 | Film, News | No comments

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.

Color of Change Calls for the End of ‘Cops’

By Ann Mamie | April 27, 2013 | News, TV | No comments

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Color of Change members want to end the dehumanizing images on the Fox television reality-based show Cops by pushing the show out of primetime. They are asking the television network and advertisers to end support of the show.

Cops has aired for 25 seasons, since 1989 and is marketed as being unbiased. However, members of Color of Change allege that dangerous, controlling stereotypes are a recurring component of the show’s message.

Cops puts a black male face on criminality, presenting a world where Black men and boys are stereotyped and punished.

Ama K. Abebrese, Dakore Egbuson, AY to Host 2013 African Movie Academy Awards

By Ann Mamie | April 12, 2013 | Africa, Film, News, Trailers | 1 Comment

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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:

‘Virgin Margarida’ (Mozambique)

‘Last Flight to Abuja’ (Nigeria)

‘Ninah’s Dowry’ (Cameroon)

Remembering Roger Ebert

By Ann Mamie | April 9, 2013 | Film, News, Profiles | No comments

ROGEREBERT

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.

Campaign Stops Airing of Oxygen’s ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’

By Ann Mamie | January 16, 2013 | News, TV | No comments

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Oxygen’s in-the-works reality TV show All My Babies’ Mamas based on Atlanta-based rapper Shawty Lo has been canceled. The show would have featured Shawty Lo and his 11 children by 10 women (all his babies’ mamas), and his girlfriend, who is the same age as his oldest daughters. Black people across the country critiqued the show before its official release after seeing leaked online footage from the pilot – such as this clip where Shawty Lo struggles to name all his children.

Is Hollywood Strung on Guns?

By Ann Mamie | December 19, 2012 | Film, News | 5 Comments

The year was 1983. Director Brian De Palma, writer Oliver Stone, and actor Al Pacino, better known to some as Tony Montana, would make Scarface the grandaddy of all glorious Hollywood mass murder massacres. Gangster movies had long since been a staple in American movies. However, these action shootouts tend to undergo much scrutiny when a nation sees its citizens fall victim en masse to the trigger-happy hands of a single shooter of multiple semi-automatic weapons.

Mass shootings like the one that occurred in Sandy Hook have become quite routine in the U.S. By this time, we’ve all lost count how many, but we’re accustomed to the caravan that follows.

‘Life of Pi’ – A Scintillating Enchantment

By Ben Daité | December 8, 2012 | Film, News, Reviews | 1 Comment

Ang Lee wants to honor Yann Martel’s tone in the prize-winning 2001 novel, “Life of Pi,” as well as his narrative strategy, but perhaps filmmakers should stop using India as a source of higher spirituality — it’s a genteel form of exploitation and one that’s increasingly misleading. Where is the surging, high-tech, entrepreneurial narrative of the past twenty years?

Rachard Brody - The New Yorker

Welcome to Pi’s Ark! and soon enough Pi and a four hundred and fifty pound Bengal Tiger – a digital beast – are the only passengers aboard a safety boat in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

Pi’s family owned a zoo and had decided to move with some of the animals from India to Canada. But a storm wrecks the old Japanese freighter carrying them. The animals are washed out of the hold and flail around in the tumultuous seas. Pi falls into a lifeboat, and popping out from beneath a canvas covering, a tiger who owing to a clerical error, would be called Richard Parker.

The Future Of Sci-Fi – As Space Ambitions Shrink In Scale

By Ben Daité | September 10, 2012 | Film, Filmmaking, News | No comments

*** A BBC Review ***

Films suggest that our future is full of fantastically large spacecraft in galaxies far, far away. But the reality is that our ambitions in space are small – and seemingly getting smaller – says Quentin Cooper.

Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.

Spaceships are really big too.

The first few lines, as you probably recognised, are from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The other line about spaceships? That’s from pretty much every other off-world sci-fi movie of the last few decades. But it’s beginning to look like – at least for the foreseeable future – it’s wrong.

It’s tempting to blame the error on something that happened a long time ago in a cinema far, far away – the overwhelming opening shot of the first Star Wars film. That’s first as in the first one made and the first good one in the finished sequence. After the backstory has crawled by, Princess Leia’s (fairly sizeable) spaceship zips across the screen. Then behind it, with the speakers shaking the seats, comes the Imperial Star Destroyer which takes a full 12 seconds to rumble over our point of view. Twelve seconds – we’re into a whole new galactic scale of bigness.

[Video] Colorado ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Movie Shooting

By Ann Mamie | July 20, 2012 | Film, News, Trailers | No comments

12 people are reported dead and 59 injured after a gunman – dressed in a gas mask and police riot gear and armed with a rifle, handguns, and a smoke bomb – opened fire in a midnight showing of Dark Knight Rises.

The shooter, 24-year-old James Holmes, was apprehended by the police in the parking lot of the theater in Aurora, Colorado.

[BOOK] Presentation of Love, Sex & Mathematics

By Ben Daité | July 8, 2012 | Africa, News | No comments

Author: LM ARNAL

LM ARNAL is a multiracial writer who grew up without a family in Europe, at a time when mixed relationships were still taboo, and who migrated at a young age to the United States.

In Europe, after studying literature and political philosophy ARNAL found the weight of racism too thwarting and decided to travel as an adventurer.

The United States was a place where everything seemed possible, and it was easy for this soon-to-be-writer to learn many skills to be independent and remain free. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and Fassbinder were ARNAL’s first inspirations, then Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Edgar Poe, among many others.

LM wrote articles, mostly for the black press (Nommo, African Affairs, Ariztos, etc) and worked as a radio programmer for many years (to broadcast reggae, jazz, African music, and panels to discuss primarily issues concerning the black community).

Tyler Perry Talent Search Winner Selected

By Ann Mamie | July 6, 2012 | Film, LOL, News | No comments

Over 16,000 people submitted videos for the Tyler Perry Talent Search contest. Congratulations to contest winner Darmirra Brunson!

Tyler Perry made this statement about the selection process:

This was a hard decision. The winner of the talent search contest won for several reasons. One is the number of votes, but more important than that is the level of talent. I’m very excited to work with this person because I love breaking fresh new talent. I was so inspired by this person’s work that I can’t wait to create something for this person to do.

Here is Darmirra’s contest-winning video:

American Black Film Festival 2012 Winners + Trailers

By Ann Mamie | June 27, 2012 | Festivals, Film, News, Trailers | No comments

The ABFF held its annual film festival this past weekend June 20-23 in Miami, Florida. Read on for the complete list of winners and movie trailers.

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