Black On Black Cinema

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to preview the next film, "Rebel Ridge" (on Netflix) starring Aaron Pierre. The film follows an ex-Marine who grapples his way through a web of small-town corruption when an attempt to post bail for his cousin escalates into a violent standoff with the local police chief. The random topic this week is all about the controversial tweet by vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, claiming Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating pets. The hosts strongly criticize this narrative, calling it false and rooted in racist, xenophobic stereotypes. They compare Vance's statements to historical prejudices against different ethnic groups, such as Haitians, Asians, and Jews. The hosts condemn the perpetuation of these baseless claims, arguing that such rhetoric puts lives in danger and stokes fear without evidence.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss Lee Daniels latest film, The Deliverance. The film follows a family as they begin to deal with supernatural occurances as they simultanouesly fight to stay together and find their footing in more ways than one.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, "The Deliverance" directed by Lee Daniels. The film follows an Indiana family who discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and their community that the house is a portal to hell. The random topic this week is all about Black health. The crew discuss and article about why kidneys donated by Black Americans are often thrown away and the larger implications as to why. Food desparities, hereditary issues, historical trauma, and much more plant massive obstacles in the way of Black Americans long term health. Can we overcome this, and why the answer to that is important for us and the next generation that we are raising.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2023 film, "The Kitchen." The film takes place in a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home. The concepts of community and responsibility is reinforced throughout.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the whole crew returns to announce the next film, "The Kitchen" (available to stream on Netflix). The film takes place in dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home. The random topic this week is all about the issue of conditional allyship that Black people are seeing when they are being asked to sacrifice their livelihood by abstain from voting in support of the people of Palestine who are experiencing the horrors of genocide.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2022 film, The Inspection. The film follows a young gay black man, Ellis French, who defiantly endures brutal training at a Marine Corps boot camp, seeking approval from his homophobic mother. It stars Jeremy Pope, Raúl Castillo, McCaul Lombardi, Aaron Dominguez, Nicholas Logan, Eman Esfandi, Andrew Kai, Aubrey Joseph, Bokeem Woodbine, and Gabrielle Union.

This week the FULL crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, "The Inspection." The film follows a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. The random topic of the week is all about the massive news that the current Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, is now taking the reins as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party to take on Donald Trump in November. 

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to review the latest Tyler Perry film, "Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black." The film stars Megan Good and Cory Hardrict. The movie follows a woman named Ava who's husband Dallas leaves her heartbroken as he abandons their marriage. 

This week on Black on Black Cinema, we announce the next film to be reviewed "Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black" starring Megan Good and Cory Hardrict. The film follows Ava, a young bank professional, who is devastated when her husband abandons their marriage. She's determined to fight until fate intervenes, revealing the wicked deeds that once upon a time sabotaged Ava's destiny to connect with her soulmate. The random topic of the week is about the rightfully growing concern about Project 2025 and its implications for America. The crews discusses some of the details of the plan that would be implemented if Donald Trump became president in 2024.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2024 film, "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F." The fourth film in the Beverly Hills Cop action comedy franchise starring Eddie Murphy finds the hero, Axel Foley, headed back to Beverly Hills, CA to investigate a budding conspiracy after his estranged daughter is threatened.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" starring Eddie Murphy returning as Axel Foley in this action comedy franchise that has now officially spanned 40 years. The movie follows Foley as he returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life is threatened. He is joined once again by his old pals John Taggert and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy. The random topic this week is about a new Pew Research study that shows an ever-increasing mistrust that Black people have with the medical community. The hosts discuss the reasons this is likely happening but also what the ramifications of not seeking proper medical care has on the community as well.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the third film in the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The film follows Mike (Smith) and Marcus (Lawrence) once again as wild Miami cops fighting against a mother and son team that is terrorizing their city.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed. The 2020 sequel "Bad Boys For Life." The third film in the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence taking on a Mother and Son team of drug lords wreaking havoc in their beloved city of Miami. The random topics this week are connected through the idea of an odd need for some to move the goalposts on Black people when their standard for others remains the same. The crew disgusts sport commentators (specifically Stephen A. Smith) giving over the top coverage of Caitlin Clark playing a rookie in the WNBA. The second topic is on Sam Forster, a Canadian author, who decided to write a book on racism against Black Americans. The hook is that he disguised himself as a Black person to get a "true" understanding of what Black people go through in America.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2006 film, "ATL" starring T.I., Lauren London, and Evan Ross. The film follows a group of friends in their last year of high school trying desperately to meet girls, avoid the more dangerous trappings of Atlanta, and just have a good time at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film, "ATL" starring T.I. Harris in a coming of age comedy-drama. The random topics this week are surrounding our show's origin story, videotape of Diddy brutally assaulting Cassie Ventura in a hotel, his pathetic faux apology, Rep. Jasmine Crockett's devastating clapback against Republican Marjorie Taylor-Greene's personal attack, and joking conversation as to why Red Lobster is shutting down.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2024 film, "The American Society of Magical Negroes" starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, and An-Li Bogan. The film follows a young man (Aren) who joins a clandestine group of magical Black Americans committed to enhancing the lives of White individuals, satirizing the Magical Negro trope.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film, "The American Society of Magical Negroes." The film follows a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier. The random topic this week is about the rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. However, as there are so many other shows talking about the lyrical contest, we decided to take a different angle on what this beef means in a larger context. Frankly, how it and many other rap beefs tend to squeeze women in the middle as named victims, weaponized sexual encounters, and even the stripping of their humanity to be used as merely objects for these men to manipulate for the end goal of winning the contest in the court of public opinion.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns with special guest, Juwan, from the "Edit That Out" Podcast. The hosts tackle in-depth the 2023 Ava DuVernay directed film, "Origin." DuVernay's film explores author Isabel Wilkerson's tremendous personal tragedy that sets her on a path of global investigation and discovery as she writes her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history. The film stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Audra McDonald, Vera Farmiga, Blair Underwood, and Nick Offerman. 

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film that will be explored. Next week the movie will be the director Ava DuVernay's 2023 "Origin" based on the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson's nonfiction book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." The film itself is described as "The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions."  The random topic of the week is about Steven A. Smith's controversial comments about how he believes that Black Americans are sympathetic to what Donald Trump is going through as he is dealing with the American justice system.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2003 relationship comedy, "Deliver Us From Eva" starring Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Duane Martin, Essense Atkins, Meagan Good, Mel Jackson, Dartanyan Edmonds, Robinne Lee, and Kym Whitley. The film follows three sisters who's lives are overseen by their overbearing older sister to the dismay of the men who they are in relationships with. The men hire a known ladies' man to date and distract the overbearing sister in hopes of getting their own relationships back on tract.