11/25/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Who Made The Potatoe Salad? | Thanksgiving Comedy
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? is a romantic comedy film directed by Damon Daniel and starring Jaleel White, Jennia Frederique, Clifton Powell, DeRay Davis, Eddie Griffin and Tommy Tiny Lister. Michael, a San Diego Policeman travels to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving with his fiancée, Ashley to meet her dysfunctional family… Continue reading
11/4/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Quincy Jones – The Many Lives Of Q
Documentary which celebrates the life and career of top American jazz musician, composer, arranger, record producer and entrepreneur, Quincy Jones. Continue reading
10/28/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Sweet Transvestite Scene (The Rocky Horror Picture Show-1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car… Continue reading
10/7/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Hard Lessons 1986 Denzel Washington
George McKenna (Denzel Washington) confronts a career-defining moment when he accepts a job as principal of a tough, inner city Los Angeles high school. Facing an apathetic student body and indifferent teachers and parents, McKenna, with help from dedicated educator Bobbie Maxwell (Lynn Whitfield), transforms the school from a gang-ridden… Continue reading
9/23/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: King of New York
King of New York is a Crime Film directed by Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John. It stars Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Victor Argo and Wesley Snipes with supporting roles played by Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderón, Janet Hulian and Theresa Randle. Continue reading
9/16/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Black Film Entertainment | Bright Road With Dorothy Dandridge
Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the short story See How They Run by Mary Elizabeth Vronman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate with a problem student. Continue reading
9/9/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Bullitt (1968) The Greatest Hollywood Car Chase of All Time
Bullitt, a 1968 action thriller film directed by Peter Yates and produced by Phillip D’Antoni. The film stars Steve McQueen as the title character. He is a San Francisco police detective Frank Bullitt, who pursues a group of mobsters after they kill the witness he’s been assigned to protect. Continue reading
9/2/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Nothing But A Man
This 1964 cinematic masterpiece presents the portrait of an imperfect man traversing the difficult terrain of his relationship with the woman who loves him, and the stiflingly primitive culture of American apartheid, all while insisting upon his own sense of self-respect. Continue reading
8/12/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of Black people as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman.The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson. Continue reading
7/29/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Fallen | English Full Movie | Action Crime Drama
In a world where angels and demons walk among us, a young woman discovers she is the key to a celestial war that threatens humanity’s existence. Haunted by visions and pursued by both heavenly and hellish forces, she must uncover the truth about her past and embrace her destiny to… Continue reading
7/22/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Contract – Full Movie
Frank Carden (Morgan Freeman), one of the world’s greatest assassins, is handed a lucrative contract to kill a highly secretive billionaire. But in a twist of fate, Carden is involved in a car accident during the job, and when his gun is found after he is admitted to a hospital,… Continue reading
7/19/24 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: The Wiz-A Brand New Day (Everybody Rejoice)
With Evillene (Mable King*) dead, her powerful spells. Soon all her sweat shop workers and prisoners are free from her hold over them and “strip” way their hideous wicked witch skin. They all celebrate with Dorthy (Diana Ross), Scarecrow, (Michael Jackson), Tin Man (Nipsey Russell), and Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross*).… Continue reading
5/20/24 O&A Hollywood Monday: Grace Jones in Vamp
Vamp is a 1986 comedy horror film directed by Richard Wenk, co-written by Wenk and Donald P. Borchers, and starring Grace Jones and Chris Makepeace. Continue reading
5/13/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) – Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
In the gritty streets of 1940s Los Angeles, a down on his luck war veteran finds himself caught in a web of deceit and danger when he accepts a seemingly straightforward job to find a missing woman. As he delves deeper into the seedy underbelly of the city, he uncovers… Continue reading
5/6/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: A Ballerina’s Tale
Ballerina Misty Copeland made history becoming the first African-American Woman to earn the position of Principal Dancer with the world renowned American Ballet Theater. Continue reading
4/22/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings | Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and More
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) and Charlie Snow (Richard Pryor), who dreams of playing in the majors. Continue reading
4/15/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Chicago
Winner of 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and based on the hit Broadway musical, CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike. Continue reading
4/8/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Run For The Dream|Inspiring True Story
Truth is stranger than fiction. Olympic gold medal hurdler Gail Devers almost lost her feet to a mysterious disease after being picked for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She failed to qualify for the finals as the disease left her feet swollen, cracked and oozing blood.After two years, doctors were on… Continue reading
3/25/24 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Piano Lesson
Boy Willie (Charles Dutton), a sharecropper, travels to Pittsburgh in the 1930s hoping that his sister, Berniece Charles (Alfred Woodard), will let him have the piano that their enslaved uncle engraved in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Willie hopes to parlay proceeds from selling the instrument into ownership of the land his… Continue reading
3/18/24 O&A NYC CELEBRATING WOMEN ON HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Trip to Bountiful- Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Vanessa Williams, Keke Palmer
Unable to drive, Carrie (Cicely Tyson) begs her son (Blair Underwood) to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Carrie makes an escape to the bus station, where she meets Thelma (Keke Palmer) in The Trip to Bountiful. Vanessa Williams also stars in this… Continue reading
