Black Wings [They Broke through Racial Barriers to Reach the Skies] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0776K6R4X/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 The Square [Oscar Nominated Best Foreign Film from Sweden]
Top Ten DVD List for January 23, 2018
Thank You for Your Service [Inspired by True Events] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076R598PX/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Icons among Us [Jazz in the Present Tense] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002RNO1BW/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 In Search of Fellini [A Wonderfdully Whimsical Coming of Age Journey]
Top Ten DVD List for January 16, 2018
Blade Runner 2049 [With Answers Come Questions] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B075DHS7JK/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 The Commander [The Complete Collection] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076VY9196/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Extraordinary [Based on a True Marriage Journey]
Top Ten DVD List for December 26, 2017
Mayhem [Hostile. Work. Environment.] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B074WRVYSM/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Brawl in Cell Block 99 [Boxer-Turned Drug Courier Lands in Jail] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B074JVBJWJ/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Acceptable Risk: Series 1 [Her Perfect Life Was a Perfect Lie]
Blacktrospective 2017
Blacktrospective 2017 by Kam Williams Kam’s Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema Best Big Budget Black Films 1. Mudbound 2. Everything, Everything 3. The Fate of the Furious 4. Get Out 5. Girls Trip 6. Hitman’s Bodyguard 7. Roman J. Israel, Esq. 8. xXx: Return […]
The Ten Best Black Books of 2017
The Ten Best Black Books of 2017 by Kam Williams 1. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem 3. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd […]
NY Film Critics Online Awards for 2017
New York Film Critics Online, to which I belong, held its 18th annual awards meeting in Walter Reade Theatre\’s Furman Gallery in Lincoln Center, December 10, 2017, and voted winners in fifteen categories:
For movies opening December 1, 2017
Wonder Wheel (PG-13 for sexuality, profanity, smoking and mature themes) Woody Allen wrote and directed this ensemble drama, set on Coney Island in the Fifties, revolving around a carousel operator (Jim Belushi) whose waitress wife (Kate Winslet), falls for a strapping, young lifeguard (Justin Timberlake). With Juno Temple, Max
Top Ten DVD List for October 10, 2017
Baby Driver [Edgar Wright’s Music-Driven Action Masterpiece] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B073BXVX2J/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Planes, Trains & Automobiles [John Hughes Comedy Classic] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0748YH94G/ref%3dnosim/thslfofire-20 Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland [The King of Pop’s Final Years]