8/25/17 O&A NYC FILM: Top 10 Actors Who Got Buff For a Movie Role

The top 10 actors who got buff for a movie role. This list features actors who put on considerable muscle mass to play a role in a movie, with special consideration given to those who did so in a relatively brief period of time or who underwent dramatic physical transformations compared to their previous looks. Continue reading

8/15/17 O&A NYC DANCE: Travis Scott- The Prayer Featuring Skitzo Dancing In Shanghai

Travis Scott featuring Skitzo dance in the Yak Film presentation Dancing In Shanghai.  
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8/15/17 O&A NYC INSPIRATIONAL TUESDAY: Don’t Be a Sucker!- The Anti-Fascist Short Film Is Back

Don’t Be A Sucker, an anti-fascist short propaganda film made by the U.S. War Department in 1943 has resurfaced as a statement against the resurgent white-nationalist movement. Almost 75 years after its debate, Don’t Be a Sucker lives again in a new and strange context. Continue reading

1/10/18 (REPOST) O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Robert Ri’chard- Excerpts From Chocolate City

Chocolate City (2015) stars Robert Ri’ chard, Michael Jai White, Carmen Electra and Vivian Fox. Continue reading

8/7/17 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Billie Holiday her songs from the film New Orleans

Billie Holiday in the 1947 film New Orleans. This video contains Holiday’s songs only- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (two versions), Farewell To Storyville, and The Blues Are Brewin’. Continue reading

8/4/17 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: Carib Gold- Featuring Geoffrey Holder

Carib Gold (1956) featuring the first known film roles for both Geoffrey Holder and Cicely Tyson.   The film was filmed almost entirely in Key West, Florida, with locally-cast musicians, extras and largely African-American cast headlined by Ethel Waters. Continue reading

8/2/17 O&A NYC DANCE: The Washington Ballet’s Hardest Dance Moves

PostTV goes behind the scenes at the Washington Ballet to get six professional dancers to show off the most difficult moves in their repertoire. Continue reading

7/31/17 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Mills Brothers – Caravan

The Mills Brothers recorded the Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington exotic jazz composition Caravan a cappella making the instruments’ sounds with their voices. The Mills Brothers honored Duke Ellington with this swing version of his Caravan.

Mills Brothers – Caravan

The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as The Four Kings of Harmony, were an African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records. The Mills Brothers were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.

9/5/17 O&A NYC DANCE AND MUSIC: FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg

 FOLI, the word for rhythm used by the Malinke tribes of Baro, Guinee Afrika, encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound. It’s found in every part of daily life. Continue reading

(Repost) 7/22/17 O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY- ANYTHING GOES : The L.A. Complex – The Complete Kal and Tariq Story

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The L.A. Complex, The Complete Kal and Tariq Story centers around Kaldrick King (Andra Fuller) a successful but troubled and bad-tempered rapper dealing with the secret of being a closeted homosexual.
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