from NoirKulture.com "Of his own volition, photographer, filmmaker, and oral historian Rev. L.O. Taylor single-handedly documented the African American community in Memphis, Tennessee from the 1920s through the 1960s." -Center for Southern Folklore The films,...
Revisiting Thomas Ikimi’s Underseen 'Legacy' Starring Idris Elba By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act As I said I would a month ago, when it was announced that writer/director Thomas Ikimi had reunited with Idris Elba for a Fox hour-long drama series titled "The...
By Rob Keyes | ScreenRant It’s been over twelve years (and four Transformers movies) since Michael Bay’s Bad Boys 2 released in theaters in the summer of 2003 and nearly every year since we’ve heard rumblings and quotes teasing that Bad Boys 3 would be coming…...
By Aramide A Tinubu | Shadow and Act Meagan Good has been working in the entertainment industry for well over twenty years. She first burst onto the scene as the troubled and secretive tween, Cicely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons’ 1960’s era “Eve’s Bayou” alongside Samuel L....
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Cinematographer extraordinaire Bradford Young has been named the 2015 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. This is the 16th year of the residency program, which is sponsored by the...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It continues to be a point of contention, even among black people. Who gets to tell *our* stories? It's a guaranteed debate starter - new film or TV project is announced with black protagonist(s), but non-black creator (writer and...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act In the spring, we learned that Idris Elba had joined the cast of the next "Star Trek" movie (the 3rd one), playing a villain, although, since then, details on who this villain is have been kept tightly underwraps, so we still...
By Andre Seewood | Shadow and Act Much of the power of the film image, excluding for the moment its historical preeminence, resides in its grandeur; its tiny images in multiple millimeters projected over our heads and transformed into gigantic images in multiple...
By Aramide A Tinubu | Shadow and Act Though Nichole Galicia began her career as a high fashion model strutting across runways around the globe, it was her breakout role in Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film “Django Unchained” that got everyone buzzing about her. In the...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Before Spike Lee made his mark, Michael Schultz was the most prolific African American filmmaker since Oscar Micheaux, directing around 12 feature films between 1970 and 1990 (and much more if I included TV movies and serials)....
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act I really loved this! It looks like it was as fun to make as it is to watch. It actually gave me some ideas for a series I've been thinking about. But in short, Lupita Nyong'o, who is featured on the October cover of Vogue...
by Ashanti Scott | Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Ethosheia Hylton’s latest film LIA is one of 41 films directed by women of color that will be screened at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series on Oct. 24-25 in Brooklyn at LIU. Tickets:...