Black on Black Cinema | Black Movie Reviews

This week the next film is introduced, 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.' A documentary cataloging the rise of the American Black Power movement Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedies, a...

This week on Black on Black Cinema the guys discuss the 1992 romantic comedy classic, Boomerang. A conventional story of a hot shot marketing executive and all around ladies man who gets his comeuppance when he gets a taste of his own medicine from his female equal. Starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, and Halle Berry, Boomerang is a flip on a classic tale. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running...

This week the next movie, Boomerang, is introduced. Starring Eddie Murphy as the ultimate ladies man who eventually gets his comeuppance. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedies, and blockb...

This week the guys take on Tyler Perry's latest movie in which a woman is tempted away from her marriage. The movie deals with the downfall of a once good woman. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dram...

In this preview episode the next movie is introduced, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, directed by Tyler Perry. Nothing more than that! Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedi...

This week the guys discuss Fruitvale Station, a film chronicling the last days of police brutality victim Oscar Grant III. An exploratory episode into race relations in America. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-...

The next movie is introduced, Bad Boys, the 1995 action buddy cop flick starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith and directed by Michael Bay. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedies, and blo...

This week on Black on Black Cinema the guys take on the party classic, House Party. What stakes will high school age kids go to in order to make sure the party of their dreams goes off without a hitch? No matter parents, angry neighbors, or even psycho bullies can stop two determined teenagers from the ultimate house party. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black m...

In this week's preview show the movie House Party is introduced. A fun loving party movie starring the members of Kid N' Play. Considered to be the black 90s version of Animal House. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black...

This week on Black on Black Cinema the guys go in depth with the 1999 black romantic comedy, The Wood. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, this movie covers the coming of age of three kids in Inglewood, CA during the 1980s juxtaposed against their chaotic time in getting one of them married. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that...

This week the next movie is introduced, The Wood. The 1999 romantic comedy starring Taye Diggs, Omar Epps, and Richard T. Jones as they grow up in Inglewood, CA during the 1980s. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci...

This week the guys go in depth with Spike Lee's 1992 biopic, Malcolm X. Covering the life of the controversial civil rights hero and major leader within the Nation of Islam during the 1960s. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror a...

This week on Black on Black Cinema the next film, "Malcolm X" is introduced. Based on the autobiography of Malcolm X the biopic documents the life and times of the controversial civil rights leader. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black...

This week the guys discuss the life of a teenager who goes off to the Vietnam War and his struggle as a black man upon returning to the Bronx in the American Crime Drama, Dead Presidents. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and...

This week the movie introduced is Dead Presidents. The film chronicles the life of a black man coming back from Vietnam and trying to support his family. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, come...

This week the Black on Black Cinema crew take on the classic black comedy Coming to America. Starring Eddie Murphy at the height of his comedic/acting career the movie takes on stereotypes from Africa to Queens, New York. Dealing with the hilarious immigrant experience in America, Coming to America, hits all the high notes of an 1980s comedy instant classic. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running...

In this week's preview show the movie Coming to America is introduced. The infamous 1988 comedy stars Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and James Earl Jones. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedi...

This week the guys go in depth about the newly released biopic on Jackie Robinson, entitled "42." The movie takes a look at Robinson attempt to break the color barrier in major league baseball during the late 1940s. The film stars Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Bla...

This preview episode is to introduce the next film, 42. A biographical telling of Jackie Robinson's famous racial integration of major league baseball, and his successful crossover appeal and career. Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We revie...

This week the next film is introduced, Medicine for Melancholy. An indie black film dealing with the struggle of a black man and black woman meeting in a highly segregated (racial and financial) city of San Francisco. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every...

In 1989 Spike Lee decided to take on racial unease in Bed-Sty Brooklyn, New York. Easily Lee's must known film, Do The Right Thing, is an in-your-face look at the boiling tension between the races in the heart of the hood. With a backdrop of a brutally hot summer day we watch as Mookie (Spike Lee) sways between his loyalties to his boss and his loyalties to his neighborhood. Black on Black Cinema...

In this preview episode of Black on Black Cinema the next movie, Do the Right Thing, is introduced. Produced, written, directed, and starring Spike Lee. Do the Right Thing takes on racial unease in 1989 in front of the back drop of the hottest days of the summer. This is easily Spike Lee's most universally known film and you don't need to think to hard why. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running...

This week on Black on Black Cinema: In 1975 a movie was released entitled Boss Nigger, and the world was never the same. Directed by a Jack Arnold and written by and starring Fred Williamson, Boss Nigger is a quintessential blaxploitation film. This is Django Unchained before Django Unchained existed. Chock full of offensive stereotypes of Blacks, Whites, and Mexicans in the post-slavery western U...

In this preview episode of Black on Black Cinema the next movie, Boss Nigger, is introduced. The film deals with a Black sheriff and his deputy in the Western United States some time soon after the end of slavery. The movie also deals with the enforcing of "Black Laws" throughout the town full of White folks. Action packed and full of classic blaxploitation moments the movie runs the line between...

This week on Black on Black Cinema the guys discuss the 2011 coming of age/coming out drama, Pariah. Directed by Dee Rees this film takes a unabashed look at homosexuality and its level of acceptance in the Black community. Alike, a 17 year old girl in New York, has to come to terms with who she is and the world in which she lives. Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth...