When Leslie Jones performed her update sketch on SNL she took a brilliant kamikaze leap into America’s pile of racial brain manure and, despite emerging covered in some of the very shit she was working to lampoon, she resurfaced as a fearless truth-teller. Telling the sort of family secrets that we as black Americans find…
Here is the list: Die Hard, Predator, The Hunt For Red October, Die Hard With a Vengeance, I was a Republican. Number 5 isn’t a film. It’s a quote! A comment McTiernan made during a CNN interview about a real life revelation he had in regards to racism, black and brown voter disenfranchisement and the…
This summer 2014 I am planning to direct White Water, the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the white’s only drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: drink from it. The screenplay is…