A very fun teen time capsule from 1990 that has a lot on its mind but resists any major dramatics.
Category Archives: Black Directors
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)
A very well-done neo-noir that deals with issues the original film noirs mostly ignored. Denzel Washington plays the detective in over his head.
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990)
A Magical Realist story of a Black family in Los Angeles that throws out a lot of ideas, and leaves us to our own conclusions.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS (1941)
This is a movie as “outsider art,” an unfiltered detour into a religious mind without an insincere bone in its body.
THE BEST MAN (1999)
I’ve watched a lot of movies that were aggressively not my thing since starting this blog, but oh boy, this was a rough one.
WAITING TO EXHALE (1995)
Some people are perfectly happy to watch movies where a bunch of women get together and complain about men and then get together or do not get together with those men. It’s not my thing.
SHAFT (1971)
He’s a Black private dick who’s a sex machine with all the chicks, but I found his movie not as interesting as one might think.
GANJA & HESS (1973)
An “experimental” horror movie that’s about vampires, sort of, and… other things? What things you ask? I’m not sure.
LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000)
A very different kind of sports movie, or maybe a very different kind of romance.
COOLEY HIGH (1975)
In which we learn that it’s possible to be nostalgic about something yet not remember it as perfect.
