Black Film

ATL movie fans, it looks like your dreams of a sequel are finally coming true. Both unconfirmed speculation from hopeful fans and whispers from the film’s…

Actress Sanaa Lathan has maintained a consistent presence on the Hollywood scene over the last decade or so with movies including Love & Basketball, Brown…

  Hello Beautiful favorite Ava DuVernay is once again making moves, but this time she’s behind the keyboard instead of behind the camera. DuVernay and over 40 of her amazing fellow Black filmmakers are participating in a Rebel-A-Thon on Twitter to raise awareness about DuVernay’s Black film collective AAFRM (specifically the #ARRAY membership drive) and to generally […]

Two filmmakers are taking bringing humor to the challenge of teaching Black kids to love their natural hair, but they might need you to chip…

Woody Allen disagrees with assumptions that he’s racist because he doesn’t tend to cast black actors in his films. Back in April, there were rumors…

In honor of the “The Best Man” sequel “Best Man Holiday”, here are 15 more black films that we’d like to see a part two…

Tyler Perry has been a major player in Hollywood with his hit TV series, movies and plays, but  now he has his eyes set on animation. AlwaysAList.com reports the media mogul is preparing an animated project called “Madea’s Kids.” Later this year, Madea returns to the big screen with “A Madea Christmas.” That movie is set […]

As the latest slave film,  ”12 Years A Slave” makes its way to the box office, there’s already a cry of fatigue from some Black…

The trailer for “The Best Man Holiday” just hit the net and it looks as though 14 years later our favorite group of dysfunctional friends are reuniting for the Christmas holidays to catch up. We already saw some behind-the-scenes photos of  Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and […]

An Indiana man is claiming that he led Tyler Perry into “Temptation” — and now he wants payback from the filmmaker. Writer William James of Gary, Ind., filed a lawsuit against Perry in U.S. District Court in Indiana this week, saying that the idea for Perry’s “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor” is lifted from […]

Based on the 1943 Broadway musical, Carmen Jones is an updated version of the George Bizet opera “Carmen” in an African-American setting.  When director Otto Preminger decided to adapt it for the big screen, his goal was to make a dramatic film with music rather than a conventional film musical.  Realizing that movies with an […]