Do you believe in love at first sight? During a stroll through a park, a lonely photographer meets the love of his life. Through a series of unfortunate events, he must find a way to her heart before his luck runs out. Continue reading
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Tag: Film
4/24/15 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
4/22/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (or simply Don’t Be a Menace) The film spoofs a number of black, coming-of-age, hood films such as Juice, Jungle Fever, South Central, Higher Learning, Do the Right Thing, Poetic Justice, New Jack City, Dead Presidents, Friday, and most prominently Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society. Continue reading
4/18/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Changing Batteries
An old lady who lives all alone and receives a Child Robot one day as a present. The story tells about their relationship and love for one another through time. Continue reading
4/8/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: The Longest Yard Funny Moments
The Longest Yard 2005 remake of the 1974 sports comedy film of the same name stars Adam Sandler as Paul Crewe; a disgraced Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. He is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards. Continue reading
3/30/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers- Robot Love Story (Episode 3)
A man wakes up in a hospital with no memory and severe convulsions. With the help of a nurse, Autumn, he learns to control the robotic ticks that control his body and plague his heart. However, not everything and everyone is as they seem. Continue reading
3/18/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Borat
Borat Sagdiyev is a fictitious Kazakh journalist travelling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans. British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen plays the title character.
3/13/15 Shall We Dance Friday: Excerpts From The Ballerinas (1987) – Starring Carla Fracci
In The Ballerinas, a sumptuously produced two-part ballet drama, Fracci places her rare artistry in the service of dance history as she recreates roles first premiered by such luminous ballerinas as Marie Taglioni, Emma Livry, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Elssler, Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Carlotta Brianza, Matilde Kschessinska, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and Olga Spessitzeva. Continue reading
3/4/15 Wildin Out Wednesday: The Little Rascals (Readin and Writin)
Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach’s Rascals) is a series of comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. In addition, Our Gang notably put boys, girls, whites and blacks together as equals. That had never been done before in cinema, and the series broke new ground. Continue reading
(Repost) 11/16/20 O&A HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Cotton Comes To Harlem- Iris, Officer Jerema and the Paper Bag
Cotton Comes to Harlem was the beginning of short period in American film that featured black actors in leading roles and the themes dealt with issues from the African-American microcosm. With a screenplay by Arnold Perl and Ossie Davis, and directed by Davis this action drama represents the black prospective. Much of the film’s humor is urban black comedy, which was groundbreaking in 1970.
