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Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative
Rating: NR
Genre: Documentary
Directed By: Justin Malone
Written By: Ryder Ansell, Larry Elder, Justin Malone
On Disc/Streaming: Jun 19, 2020
Runtime: 106 minutes
Studio: Malone Pictures
The film’s strength is derived from tapping into the humanity of the Black people showcased. Black conservatives are not the self-hating negroes that many on the political left sometimes make them out to be. They are people who trust in the American system. They believe the Democrat’s focus on racism is a unworthy distraction which is preventing Black people from being successful in this country. They believe, getting an education, not breaking the law, and raising children in a two-parent households, are the real the keys to building wealth and succeeding in the country. It is a compelling argument.
Dolemite Is My Name
Rating: R (for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Craig Brewer
Written By: Larry Karaszewski
In Theaters: Oct 4, 2019 Limited
On Disc/Streaming: Oct 25, 2019
Runtime: 118 minutes
Studio: Netflix
Dolemite Is My Name is funny, heartwarming, and inspiring, which are always the qualities of an Eddie Murphy film. The injustice often done to Murphy and most black male artists is that they are often presented or perceived as flat, one-dimensional beings who can only be overly masculine, overly sexual, and overly humorous.
Superfly (2018)
Rated: R for pervasive profanity, graphic sexuality, violence, ethnic slurs, nudity and drug use
Running time: 108 minutes
Written By: Alex Tse
In Theaters: Jun 13, 2018
Production Studios: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment / Silver Pictures
Trevor Jackson Plays Iconic Title Character in Stylized Remake of Blaxploitation Era Classic
Super Fly (1972) was one of the most profitable of the Blaxploitation Era flicks. Released during the genre’s heyday, the picture revolved around its iconic title character, Youngblood Priest, a flamboyant cocaine dealer who dressed like a pimp, drove flashy cars and sampled his wares from a spoon shaped like a cross draped around his neck.
Crown Heigths
Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity and violence
Genre: Drama
Running time: 93 minutes
Directed By: Matt Ruskin
Written By: Matt Ruskin
In Theaters: Aug 18, 2017 Limited
Studio: Amazon Studios and IFC Films
Courtroom Docudrama Recounts Real-Life Miscarriage of Justice
In the spring of 1980, Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield) was wrongfully accused of murder on the streets of Brooklyn by a 15 year-old juvenile delinquent (Skylan Brooks) who picked him out of a photo lineup provided by the police. That supposed "eyewitness" testimony was the only evidence linking Colin to the crime, but it didn't prevent a jury from convicting the 18 year-old in spite of a credible alibi and the absence of a motive, weapon or connection to the victim.
Detroit
Rated R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity
Running time: 143 minutes
Directed By: Kathryn Bigelow
Written By: Mark Boal
In Theaters: Aug 4, 2017 Wide
Production Company: Annapurna Pictures / First Light
Distributor: Annapurna Pictures
Claustrophobic Docudrama Revisits '67 Riots through the Prism of Infamous Interrogation at Algiers Hotel
Detroit’s 1967 riots broke out in the wee hours of July 23rd, in the wake of a police raid on an unlicensed bar where folks had been toasting a couple of vets who’d recently returned from Vietnam. Word spread like wildfire through the black community that the cops had arrested all 82 people they found inside, and it wasn’t long before mobs began looting and firebombing stores all throug out the neigborhood.
The rebellion would last five days and result in over 1,000 injuries and 7,000 arrests, while also claiming 43 lives. In terms of property damage, about 2,500 businesses were destroyed and hundreds of families were left homeless.
I Called Him Morgan
Unrated
Running time: 92 minutes
Production Studio: Kasper Collin Produktion
Distributor: Submarine Deluxe
Reverential Retrospective Revisits Abbreviated Life of Legendary Jazz Great
Written and directed by Kasper Collin, I Called Him Morgan is a warts-and-all retrospective chronicling the highs and lows of Lee's checkered career. He enjoyed a meteoric rise as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still in his teens, only to eventually become broke because of a heroin habit that made him so unreliable that nobody in the music industry would hire him anymore.
I Am Not Your Negro
PG-13 (for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity)
Running time: 93 minutes
Studio: Big Beach Films
Distributor: Focus Features
Oscar-Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin’s Unfinished Manuscript
When novelist/social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled Remember This House. The 30-page manuscript assessed the plight of African-Americans in the United States while specifically reflecting upon the assassinations of three civil rights icons: Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loving
Rated PG-13 for mature themes and ethnic slurs
Running time: 123 minutes
Studio: Big Beach Films
Distributor: Focus Features
Poignant Period Piece Recounts the Forbidden Romance That Led to Landmark Supreme Court Decision
Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga) and Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) committed a crime just by falling in love when they were in the bloom of youth back in 1958. That's because she was black and he was white, and they were living in Virginia, one of the many Southern states with anti-miscegnation laws still on the books forbidding cohabitation, marriage, procreation or even sexual relations across racial lines.
Moonlight
Rated R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity, ethnic slurs and graphic violence
Running time: 110 minutes
Studio: Plan B Entertainment
Distributor: A24
Gay Ghetto Kid Struggles with His Sexual Awakening in Homoerotic Coming of Age Flick
It isn’t bad enough that Chiron (Alex R. Hibbert/Ashton Sanders/Trevante Rhodes) is being raised by an emotionally-unavailable, drug-addicted, single-mom (Naomie Harris). The shy youngster also has the misfortune of having to hide the fact that he’s gay, since he’s experiencing pangs of sexual awakening in the midst of an African-American, ghetto culture which is homophobic to the point of violence.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
In Theaters: Oct 14, 2016 Limited
Directed By: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
Unrated
Running time: 114 minutes
Distributor: American Masters Pictures
Co-directed by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack, the film features heartfelt reflections by an array of luminaries, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, John Singleton, Cicely Tyson, Dave Chappelle and Valerie Simpson, to name a few. For example, we hear Secretary Clinton refer to her as “a phenomenal woman” while Lou Gossett, Jr. credits her with raising his political consciousness.
The Birth of a Nation
In Theaters: October 7, 2016 Wide
Rated R for brief nudity and disturbing violence
Running time: 120 minutes
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
This compelling drama landed both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and had emerged as the prohibitive Best Picture Academy Award favorite until buzz about Mr. Parker’s having been accused of rape while in college went viral across the blogosphere. Nevertheless, judging The Birth of a Nation strictly on the merits, it undeniably deserved its previous status as a prime Oscar contender.
Southside With You
In Theaters: August 26, 2016 Wide
PG-13 for smoking, a violent image, brief profanity and a drug reference
Running time: 84 minutes
Distributor: Miramax / Roadside Attractions
Who would ever think of making a movie just about Barack (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Obama’s (Tika Sumpter) first date? Richard Tanne would, that’s who, and he makes an impressive directorial debut with this inspirational biopic chronicling a very eventful day in the lives of the future President and First Lady.
Nina
In Theaters: April 22, 2015 Limited
Rating: PG for mature themes
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Cynthia Mort
Written By: Cynthia Mort
Running time: 90 minutes
Studio: Ealing Studios
Most of the pre-release buzz surrounding this controversial biopic has swirled around the debate about Zoe Saldana’s darkening her skin, donning an afro wig and wearing a prosthetic nose to portray Nina Simone (1933-2003). Apparently, in these politically-correct times, some consider the casting of Saldana as the dark-skinned title character to be a case of cultural appropriation, since she is of Dominican and Puerto Rican extraction and thus, by implication, not black enough to play an African-American.
War Room
In Theaters: Aug 28, 2015 Limited
Rating: PG for mature themes
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Alex Kendrick
Written By: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
Running time: 120 minutes
Studio: Provident Films
Distributor: TriStar Pictures
In 2011, Pastor Alex Kendrick produced, directed, wrote and starred in Courageous, a very compelling, action-oriented, faith-based drama. With War Room, he's opted to play only a supporting role in the flick, thereby freeing himself to focus more on his duties behind the camera.
The film revolves around protagonists Elizabeth (Priscilla Shirer) and Tony Jordan (T.C. Stallings), a couple we meet already in the midst of a relationship crisis. Most of their marital woes are of the husband's making, as he is a workaholic who's emotionally and physically unavailable to his wife and their young daughter, Danielle (Alena Pitts). Read More
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
In Theaters: Sep 2, 2015 Limited
Runtime: 1 hr. 53 min.
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Documentary
Directed & Written By: Stanley Nelson
Distributor: Firelight Films
The late Stokely Carmichael is famous for coining the phrase “Black power!” What he might not be as well remembered for is founding the Black Panthers. Frustrated by the tortoise-paced progress of the Civil Rights movement and by the number of martyrs dying and disappearing around the South… “You tell them white folks in Mississippi that all the scared niggers is dead!” he announced. However, Stokely had little to do with the organization after opening that first chapter in 1965 in Lowndes, Alabama (an 80% black county where no African-American had ever been allowed to vote). Read More
Straight Outta Compton
In Theaters: Aug 14, 2015 Wide
Runtime: 2 hr. 27 min.Rating: violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and ethnic slurs, graphic sexuality and frontal nudity
Genre: Drama
Directed By: F. Gary Gray
Written By: Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack-cocaine to African-American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime. Read More
Dope
In Theaters: Jun 19, 2015 Wide
Runtime: 1 hr. 55 min.
Rating: R (for languge, drug content, sexuality/nudity, and some violence- all involving teens)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Directed & Written by Rick Famuyiwa
Rated R for profanity, nudity, sexuality, ethnic slurs, drug use and violence, all involving teens
Distributor: Open Road Films
17 year-old Malcolm (Shameik Moore) was raised by a single-mom (Kimberly Elise) in a rather rough section of L.A. where he's turned out to be more of a milquetoast than a menace to society. He's actually so nerdy he's formed a funk band called Oreo with a couple of fellow geeks, Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) and Jib (Tony Revolori). The tight-knit BFFs carefully negotiate their way through the perilous gauntlet lining their path to school, doing their best to hide the fact that they do “white sh*t” like getting good grades in hopes of going to a good college and making it out of the ghetto. Read More
Brotherly Love
In Theaters: Apr 24, 2015 Limited
Rated: R for violence, profanity and ethnic slurs
Genre: Drama
Written & Directed By: Jamal Hill
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min.
Distributor: Liquid Soul Media / Freestyle Releasing
As far as performances are concerned, Keke Palmer is terrific in the lead role as Jackie. She also belts out a couple of tunes on the soundtrack, including a mesmerizing, closing credits rendition of the Harold Melvin R&B classic, “Wake Up Everybody.” And the rest of the cast, especially Cory Hardrict, Romeo Miller, Macy Gray, Eric D. Hill, Jr., Quincy Brown and Faizon Love, does a great job creating the requisite edgy atmosphere that imbues the production with a very authentic feel for the duration. Read More
Supremacy
In Theaters: Jan 30, 2015 Limited
On DVD: Apr 21, 2015
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Deon Taylor
Runtime: 1 hr. 46 min.
Distributor: Well Go Entertainment
DVD Extras: Behind-the-Scenes featurette; and the theatrical trailer.
Directed by Deon Taylor (Chain Letter), Supremacy is a hostage thriller ostensibly inspired by actual events which transpired in Sonoma County, California on the night of March 29, 1995. At 11:30 that evening, Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Trejo was assassinated by a recently-paroled member of the Aryan Brotherhood and his gun moll, just before they forced their way into a nearby house and held the owners captive. Read More
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus [2015]
In Theaters: Feb 13, 2015 Limited
Rating: Unrated
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 hr. 3 min.
Studio: 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
The Kickstarter page where Spike Lee raised $1,418,910 from fans for his latest “Joint” expressly states that the money would not used to shoot a remake of Blacula (1972). But it also failed to inform investors that the crowdfunded feature was ostensibly-inspired by another Blaxploitation era horror flick, namely, Ganja & Hess (1973). And after screening this disappointing indie, it’s obvious there was no reason to redo that picture either. Read More
Selma
In Theaters: Dec 25, 2014 Limited, Jan 9, 2014 Wide
PG-13 (for disturbing thematic material including violence, a suggestive moment, and brief strong language)
Runtime: 2 hr. 7 min.
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Ava DuVernay
Written By: Paul Webb, Ava DuVernay
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Believe it or not, this moving biopic is the first, full-length feature ever made revolving around Dr. Martin Luther King. That oversight is only apt to further enhance the film’s stock value when it goes wide in theaters right before Dr. King’s birthday and the eagerly-anticipated awards season. Read More
Annie
In Theaters: Dec 19, 2014 Wide
Rated PG for mild epithets and rude humor
Running time: 118 minutes
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
PG (for some mild language and rude humor)
Genre: Drama , Kids & Family, Musical & Performing Arts
Directed By: Will Gluck
Written By: Emma Thompson , Thomas Meehan , Aline Brosh McKenna
A 21st Century variation on the age-old theme where an insufferable 1%-er finally gets in touch with his sensitive side with the help of an irresistible ragamuffin representing the downtrodden rest of humanity. Read More
Top Five
In Theaters: Dec 12, 2014 Wide
R (for strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout and some drug use)
Running time: 1 hr. 41 min.
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Written and Directed By: Chris Rock
Top Five features Chris Rock as Andre Allen, a comedian who has become too closely associated with “Hammy the Bear,” the popular protagonist of a humor-driven film franchise. Consequently, he’s been having a hard time making the transition to dramatic roles. Read More
25 to Life
In Theaters: Nov 28, 2014 Limited
Rated PG-13 for PG-13 for action and sci-fi violence
Running time: 87 minutes
Studio: SimonSays Entertainment
Distributor: AaFFRM
Directed by Mike Brown, 25 to Life is reverential biopic that revisits all of the above, opting to present Bill in a positive light despite his risky behavior with a string of sex partners. Granted, it’s great that he ultimately embraced honesty and even settled down and got married, but it would’ve been nice to hear from his former conquests to learn how they felt about being used and whether they’ve tested positive for the AIDS virus. Read More
Beyond the Lights
In Theaters: Nov 14, 2014 Wide
Rated PG-13 for sexuality, profanity, suggestive gestures, partial nudity and matures themes
Running time: 1 hr. 42 min.
Written and Directed By: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Genre: Drama
Distributor: Relativity Media
Beyond the Lights, a steamy romantic romp written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees and Love & Basketball). Don’t be duped into thinking that you’ve seen this same story somewhere before, given how the plot is vaguely reminiscent of Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner’s The Bodyguard (1992). Read More
Dear White People
In Theaters: Oct 17, 2014 Limited
On DVD: Feb 3, 2015
Rated R for profanity, ethnic and sexual preference slurs, sexuality and drug use
Running time: 1 hr. 48 min.
Genre: Drama , Comedy
Directed By: Justin Simien
Written By: Justin Simien
Distributor: Roadside Attractions
…director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines (“Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.”) and touching on a litany of hot button issues ranging from Affirmative Action to Tyler Perry. Read More
The Equalizer
In Theaters: Sep 26, 2014 Wide
Rated R for graphic violence, sexual references and pervasive profanity
Running time: 131 minutes
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Mystery & Suspense
Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
Written By: Richard Wenk
On the surface, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a perfectly-pleasant, hail fellow well met. By day, the affable widower is employed as a sales associate at a hardware superstore where he jokes with co-workers who call him “Pops.” Evenings, he retires to a modest apartment in a working-class, Boston community, although bouts of insomnia often have him descending to a nearby diner to read a book into the wee hours of the morning. Read More
Take Me to the River
In Theaters: Sep 12, 2014 Limited
Rated PG for smoking, mild epithets and mature themes
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Musical & Performing Arts, Documentary
Directed By: Martin Shore
Written By: Rick Clark, Jerry Harrison
Produced By: Martin Shore, Jerry Harrison, Cody Dickinson, Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell, and Dan Sameha
A lot of great soul music came out of Memphis in the Sixties and early Seventies. Stax Records launched the careers of acts like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Booker T. and the MGs while its cross-town rival Hi Records had Al Green, Ann Peebles and O.V. Wright.Take Me to the River is a reverential retrospective which is a combination tribute to the city’s impressive legacy and a tip of the cap to some up-and-coming artists still recording in the region. . Read More
Get on Up: The James Brown Story
In Theaters: Aug 1, 2014 Wide
Rated PG-13 for sexuality, drug use, profanity and violence
Running time: 2 hr. 18 min.
Drama
Directed By: Tate Taylor
Written By: Steven Baigelman, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Just last year, Chadwick Boseman successfully channeled the spirit of Jackie Robinson in 42, a powerful biopic about the Hall of Fame great who made history when he integrated Major League Baseball in 1947. In Get on Up, the gifted young actor is already impersonating another legendary African-American, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown (1933-2006). Read More
Hidden Colors 3:The Rules of Racism
In Theaters: Jun 26, 2014 Limited
DVD Release Date: July 4, 2014
Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.
Documentary
Directed By: Tariq Nasheed
Studio: King Flex Entertainment
Actors: David Banner, Paul Mooney, Dick Gregory, Nas, Tariq Nasheed
ARRAY’s (AFFRM) – Film Releases
Blacktropectives (Best Black Films):
Blacktrospective 2016 (coming in December 2016)
Blacktrospective 2015 (coming soon)
Blacktrospective 2014
Blacktrospective 2013
Blacktrospective 2012
Best 100 Films of 2012
Blacktrospective 2011
Blacktrospective 2010
Blacktrospective 2009
Blacktrospective 2008
Blacktrospective 2007
Blacktrospective 2006
Blacktrospective 2005
Films from Moguldom Studios
Best Selling DVD's:
Best Selling DVDs for 2013 (Final List)
Best Selling DVDs for 2012
Best Selling DVDs for 2011
African American Film Critics Awards
AAFCA 2013
AAFCA 2008
AAFCA 2007
Films Reviewed by AALBC Include:
- Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
- 12 Years a Slave
- 13
- 2 Guns
- 2012
- 2016: Obama’s America
- 21 Jump Street
- 25 to Life
- 42
- 96 Minutes
- A Beautiful Soul
- A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy
- A Great Day in Harlem
- A Haunted House 2
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Review of the Broadway Play)
- A Thousand Words
- A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
- African American Lives 2
- African-American Lives
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Ali
- America the Beautiful
- America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments
- American Gangster
- American Gun
- American Violet
- Amistad
- An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
- Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
- Annie
- Anonymous
- Are We Done Yet?
- ATL
- Baby Boy
- Baggage Claim
- Ballast
- Balls of Fury
- Bamboozled
- Banished
- Barack Obama: The Man and His Journey
- Barbershop 2
- Barry Bonds
- Bass Clef Bliss
- Bastards of the Party
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Behind those Books (press release)
- Belle
- Beloved
- Best Kept Secret
- Beyond the Gates
- Beyond the Lights
- Big Words
- Biracial, Not Black, Damn It!
- Black Coffee
- Black Dynamite
- Black in America
- Black Snake Moan
- Black. White
- Blackout
- Blood Diamond
- Blood Done Sign My Name
- Blue Caprice
- Bobby
- Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
- Born into Brothels
- Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans
- Breasts
- Bring It On 4
- Brooklyn’s Finest
- Brother to Brother
- Brotherly Love
- Bushwick Homecomings
- Butterfly Rising
- Cadillac Records
- Captain Phillips
- Carmen & Geoffrey
- Cash Crop
- Changing the Game
- Circus
- Cloud Atlas
- Code Name: The Cleaner
- College Road Trip
- Color of the Cross
- Confessions of a Call Girl
- Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
- Constellation
- Cop Out
- Courageous
- Cover
- Crash
- Crips and Bloods
- Crossing the Line
- Crown Heights
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
- Daddy Day Camp
- Daddy’s Little Girls
- Darfur Diaries
- Dark Girls (Preview)
- Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
- Dead Presidents
- Dear White People
- Delta Farce
- Desert Bayou
- Detroit
- Detropia
- Diary of a Tired Black Man
- Dirty Laundry
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Do the Right Thing
- Dolemite Is My Name
- Don’t Trip, He Ain’t Through with Me Yet
- Dope
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Eat, Pray, Love
- El Cantante
- Endgame
- Evan Almighty
- Eve’s Bayou
- Examined Life
- Fast & Furious 6
- Fear of a Black Republican
- Feel the Noise
- Fire in Babylon
- First Sunday
- Flight
- For Colored Girls
- Forgiveness
- Four
- Freakonomics
- Freedom Riders (American Experience)
- From the Rough
- Fruitvale Station
- G
- Get On Up: The James Brown Story
- Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- GhettoPhysics
- Ghosts of Cite Soleil
- Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
- Giuliani Time
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Good Hair
- Graffiti Verite’ 7: Random Urban Static
- Gravity
- Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
- Hairspray
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Hancock
- Harlem Aria
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Hava Nagila: The Movie
- Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
- Hey, Boo: HarperLee & To Kill a MockingBird
- Hitch
- Hollywood Chinese
- Homie Spumoni
- Honeydripper
- Hoodlum
- Hoodwinked
- House of Payne, Volume 4
- How She Move
- How to Make Money Selling Drugs
- Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
- Hustle & Flow
- I Am Legend
- I Am Not Your Negro
- I Called Him Morgan
- I Can Do Bad All by Myself
- I Think I Love My Wife
- I Will Follow
- I.O.U.S.A. (One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.)
- I’m Through with White Girls
- Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Idlewilde
- Ikland
- In the Mix
- Inheriting the Trade
- Inside Man
- Invictus
- Iron Lady
- Iron Man 2
- It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’
- J. Edgar
- Jamesy Boy
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
- Joe Louis: American Hero - Betrayed
- Joyful Noise
- Jumping the Broom
- Kabluey
- Kamp Katrina
- Katt Williams: American Hustle
- Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
- Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
- Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is
- Kickin’ It Old School
- Killer of Sheep
- King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
- King’s Faith
- Kinyarwanda
- Kiss and Tail
- Lackawanna Blues
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)
- Legacy
- Life of a King
- Life of Pi
- Life, Above All
- Lincoln
- Linsanity
- Long Live the Spirit of the Million Man March
- Looking for Lincoln
- Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
- Louder Than a Bomb
- Love & Basketball
- Loving
- Madea Goes to Jail
- Madea’s Big Happy Family
- Madea’s Witness Protection
- Magic Mike
- Malcolm X: The Lost Tapes
- Man of Steel
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Marley
- Maxed Out
- Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
- Meet Dave (2008)
- Meet the Browns
- Meeting David Wilson
- Melancholia
- Men II Boys
- Men in Black 3
- Mirror Mirror
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Mission: Impossible III
- Mississippi Damned
- Monster’s Ball
- Moonlight
- Mooz-Lum
- Mosquita y Mari
- Muhammad Ali: The Long-Lost Movie
- Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
- My Brother
- Never Back Down
- Never Die Alone
- New Year’s Eve
- Next Day Air
- Night Catches Us
- Nina
- Noah
- Norbit
- Notorious
- Obsessed
- October Baby
- Off and Running
- Olympus Has Fallen
- On the Rumba River
- Orgasm, Inc
- Out of the Furnace
- Pain & Gain
- Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe)
- Pariah
- Paul Mooney: It’s The End of the World
- Peeples
- Perfect Stranger
- Phat Girlz
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Preacher’s Kid
- Precious
- Premium
- Premium Rush
- Prisoners
- Private Dicks: Men Exposed
- Prometheus
- Punta Soul
- Ray
- Real Steel
- Rebirth of a Nation
- Red Hook Summer
- Red Tails
- Rejoice & Shout
- Rent a Rasta
- Repentance
- Restless City
- Resurrecting the Champ
- Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008)
- Riddick
- Rising from the Ashes
- Roots
- Run, Fatboy, Run
- Rush
- Rush Hour 3
- Safe House
- Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
- Saving Lincoln
- Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings
- Selma
- Seven Pounds
- Shaft
- She’s Gotta Have It
- Sicko
- Skid Row
- Skin
- Smokin’ Aces
- Snakes on a Plane Review
- Soul Food Junkies
- Soul Men
- Southside With You
- Sparkle (2012)
- Star Trek (2009 #11)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- Still Trippin ’
- Stomp the Yard
- Straight Outta Compton
- Street Journeys
- Sucka 4 Luv
- Superfly (2018)
- Supremacy
- Sweet Dreams
- T.D. Jakes: Reposition Yourself - Living Life Without Limits
- Take Me to the River
- Talk to Me
- Temptation
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Anonymous People
- The Artist
- The Avengers
- The Best Man
- The Best Man Holiday
- The Birth of a Nation
- The Black Candle
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
- The Boys of Baraka
- The Brothers
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Descendants
- The Dhamma Brothers
- The Empire in Africa
- The End of Poverty
- The Equalizer
- The Express
- The Family That Preys
- The Five-Year Engagement
- The Girl Is in Trouble
- The Good Shepherd
- The Great Debators
- The Hate U Give
- The Help
- The Hip Hop Project
- The Honeymooners
- The Hunger Games
- The Hurricane
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
- The Last King of Scotland
- The Lottery
- The Loving Story
- The Mighty Macs
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green
- The Orig. Kings of Comedy
- The Pact
- The Perfect Holiday
- The Pirogue
- The Pride
- The Prince of Broadway
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
- The Purge
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- The Salon
- The Sapphires
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Simpsons
- The Single Moms Club
- The Social Network
- The Soloist
- The Souls of Black Girls
- The Story of Lovers Rock
- The Ultimate Ali Collection
- The Vanishing Black Male
- The Velvet Elvis
- The Weird World of Blowfly
- The Wolverine
- The Wood
- The Words
- Things Never Said
- Think Like a Man
- Think Like a Man Too
- This Christmas
- Thunder Soul
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- To Live & Die in Amerikkka
- Toe to Toe
- Top Five
- Tower Heist
- Traffic
- Transformers
- Trinity Goodheart
- Trouble the Water
- Twenty Feet from Stardom
- Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas
- Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
- Unapologetic - D.L. Hughley
- Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative
- United 93
- United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
- Vanishing Pearls: The Oysterman of Pointe a la Hache
- Venus & Serena
- Very Young Girls
- W. (2008)
- Waiting for Superman
- War Dance
- War Room
- War Witch
- Watchmen
- We Are Together
- We Need to Talk
- We the Party
- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
- What Black Men Think
- When the Levees Broke
- White Chicks
- White Wedding (2010)
- Who’s Your Caddy?
- Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
- Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
- Why We Laugh
- William Kunstler
- Winnie Mandela
- Without the King
- Wrath of the Titans
- You Got Served
- Zero Dark Thirty