Sentences with phrase «black film»
For example, the third Men In Black film, although not as big a disaster as the critics made it out to be, should have been a lot better.
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When it comes to the success of black films at the international box office, we quite literally have the receipts.
By all accounts, 2013 has been a striking year for black film directors.
There's more and more black films being done and so I think that the learning curve has gotten less and less.
Use clear film rather than black film because the clear plastic will transmit more solar radiation and increase the temperature of the soil.
Black films often appeal to sympathy, but when universal stories are told through and by people of color, they evoke empathy.
Never one to sit on the sidelines of any pressing issue, in 2003, Gil rolled up his sleeves and got to work as the co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the largest collection of Black film critics in North America.
Wouldn't Shane Black films in the 80's and Joel Silver movies in the 80's have more to do with buildings blowing up type of films?
- All three Men in Black films on Blu - ray (MEN IN BLACK, MEN IN BLACK II and MEN IN BLACK 3) in collectible packaging.
Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre of black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's Wife.
Finally, we're getting new details about the upcoming Men in Black film with Thor: Ragnarok costars Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, which will see them solving a global murder mystery.
He sets about proving his thesis by closely examining the careers of five African - American acting icons, starting with Sam Lucas (1839 - 1916), the first black film star.
The African American Film Critics Association represents the leading black film critics in America.
Salon, in one example of the widespread amnesia about black superhero films, frames Black Panther as «the first blockbuster - format release featuring a black hero front and center,» ignoring two decades of black film history in order to make a point about Hollywood's own lack of interest.
The Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF), the longest - running black film festival in the United States, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with a blockbuster lineup of films and documentaries, including winners of the biennial Paul Robeson Awards.
UK distributor Eone has released both a new red and green band trailer for Riddick, the third Pitch Black film opening...
Marvel Studios also gave Black the freedom to make a Shane Black film so the dialogue was razor sharp, there was a beachfront helicopter attack and a Christmas setting.
Good black films aren't exactly churned out with the frequency of superhero movies (or Tyler Perry movies), so a flawed complicated film is a gift in its own right.
And while waiting for the official specifications and details on where the engine updates took the car's performance, we can sit back and enjoy the first official images of the hatchback that show the matte black and carbon black film exterior combined with its orange elements.
Cube, the BFCC said, «continues to defy expectations [and] expand the boundaries of what black film - makers can achieve».
Between the cultural importance of this film, which features Marvel's first black superhero, the push to legitimize superhero films as art, as well as recent snubs of black films like Straight Outta Compton in 2016, Black Panther very well could make waves with the Academy.
For far too long, there have been Black films which are aimed squarely at a Black audience, but Johnson Family Vacation does nt fall into that trap.
Released on May 25th is the third instalment of the Men in Black film series, and on the same day the Men in Black: Alien Crisis game will be released... [Read full story]
The comedy is broad, and this is certainly more multiplex - friendly than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, however, so those who hold that earlier Black film in high regard might be left feeling a bit unfulfilled.
Once again, Black film directors like Ryan Coogler and F. Gary Gray find themselves shut out of nominations in the Best Director category.
The 2016 nominations were widely criticised for a lack of representation for black film figures, with critics — including Smith — using the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag to promote a boycott of the ceremony.
Chris Rock's Top Five takes multiple swipes at Tyler Perry, but doesn't offer a much better alternative for black film actors and entertainers.
The Big Combo — Joseph H. Lewis's very black film noir stars Richard Conte as a crime boss being hunted by a persistent cop played by Cornel Wilde.
In a career spanning almost 30 years, Oscar Micheaux became the most successful early black independent film producer and the first black film auteur.
The new MEN IN BLACK film just can't seem to catch a break.
«The success of «Girls Trip,» the first R - rated film starring an all - Black female cast to surpass $ 100 million, and «Get Out,» Jordan Peele's directorial debut which surpassed $ 250 million worldwide, prove just how viable Black films are across the board.»
The festival aims to celebrate black film and explore the diversity within the black communities in Canada.
On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.
I don't know why the studio apparently didn't believe in the movie, but I don't think it's implausible to speculate that it might have been due to some archaic ideas about selling black films — like, for example, marketing it to the point of saturation during streamed NBA games.
With a $ 34.1 million gross, the film wasn't a runaway success (the original American Pie grossed $ 102 million earlier that year), but it was the second highest grossing black film of its time, trailing only Soul Food's impressive $ 43.7 million total.
The AAFCA, the largest group of professional black film critics, will host the AAFCA Awards on February 7, 2018 at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.
The film was remade or refashioned three times - Delmer Daves» turn - of - the - century Western gold robbery titled The Badlanders (1958) with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine, the robbery of King Tut's treasures in the Cairo Museum in the British film Cairo (1963) with George Sanders and Richard Johnson, and a diamond robbery in the all - black film Cool Breeze (1972) with Thalmus Rasulala and Judy Pace.
The editing of these scenes is a bit choppy to near incoherence, and though the film tries, it doesn't keep up the snarky zip that we're accustomed to from a Shane Black film over the years.
But by painting Jonas so black the film becomes more than an expose of a crooked cleric.
But Jenkins, along with Ava DuVernay, Amma Asante, Steve McQueen, and Ryan Coogler is at the forefront of what has been termed the «black film boom.»
While Black Panther is neither the first predominantly black film nor the first black superhero film, the full financial backing of the Disney Marvel cinematic universe allows for the portrayal of black life and black fantasy on a scale many have not seen before.