…….my nephew, Andrew Burroughs, Jr., whose sci-fi thriller “Algeny” has made No. 5 of Smooth magazine’s top five indy Black films you should be watching,
…..Free Speech TV being covered by The Denver Post,
and, finally to my friend and colleague Ericka Blount-Danois, who wrote this story about this groundbreaking show.
Very, VERY good! It could have been GREAT but, alas, Marvel doesn’t care that much; these movies are just not that deep for The House of Ideas. (Moviewise, trade “Ideas” with money.) Kudos especially to Idris Elba, who could, and would, have stole the movie if his part had been greater. He has had to deal with a lot of crap from white fanboys, and his performance should shut folks up, a la Obama ( with birth certificate in one hand, Osama’s head in another) vs. Tea Party. More proof that there are no such thing as a small part if you are a great actor.
Onward to superhero movies “X-Men: First Class,” “Green Lantern” and “Captain America: The First Avenger.” I predict the DC property will be the best one this summer.
Then there’s the property below, which Marvel made famous in the 1970s:
The international box office is in: $83 million! And the very early reviews (95 percent, 55 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes as I type) are good! Waiting until Friday……..
……..my Morgan colleague M.K. Asante, who was recently profiled by CNN International’s “African Voices.”
Really enjoyed the trailer!
Pretty good trailer-as-commercial for the Super Bowl crowd. But there are at least five ways for it to suck and one narrow way to make it good, so……. 🙂
……the GREATNESS of Al Jazeera English. Nothing more needs to be said.
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……TV One’s recent airing of a serious documentary on Black men. Congrats and Kudos to Mario!
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The next Superman? Hmmm……….
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I liked the first half hour of the one I heard—the second one. Public radio often lurches SLOWLY to a real examination of Black life in America.
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A REAL-LIFE Batmobile, like in “Batman Returns” and “The Dark Knight?” WOW!
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……..the death of Wizard as a print publication. Yes, long time coming, but still……I hope the new venture will have as many (as in the same) employees, but I doubt it.
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I really don’t know what to do with this. (My nephew kept telling me about this incident.) I saw other (and whiter) real-life superheroes in the last issue of Wizard. I liked “Kick Ass” a lot—AS A MOVIE.
………THIS is the movie I’m waiting for, anxiously. The GREATEST Superman story EVER. And if you have a lot of time and have read a lot of books, you can check this looonnnggg interview out, because it’s just that significant!
FEBRUARY 17th UPDATE: Enjoyed this:
The Movement and/versus Obama. I agree with Mary Frances Berry here; the Movement will return the day after Obama leaves office.
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What can I say? This and this took care of it for me.
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If making $400,000 a day is the end product of a cursed production and a train-wreck-in-the-making, I want to produce one! LOL! 🙂
(By the way, here is the “Spider-Man musical” from my childhood. Ah, the early 1970s…. You opened up the LP and followed the story with comicbook images.)
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Really enjoyed this film. Some critics dogged it for being too traditional, but as someone who grew up with old-timey 1950s and 1960s adventure films, what’s wrong with a film in that spirit? Too bad the remaining books in the series don’t deal with the main cast, so between that and the weak box office, I guess that’s it.
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For fans only.
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Well, she only owns half, but when you don’t have to put up the money…… 🙂 And I guess this had to be said. But I think that in the 21st century, we can be sophisticated enough to thank Oprah for her consistent (albeit often-controversial) contributions to Black CULTURE, and separate that from the products she produces for her audience, i.e., white women. Oprah has never been committed to Black MEDIA, and 25 years is a long time to complain about that.
Drums in the Global Village 
