5/13/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Mulignans

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Brooklyn favorite and budding dramedy maven Shaka King got invited to Park City, Utah’s 2015 Sundance Film Festival with his unruffled humor layered in gutsy slurs. Mulignans borrows from the world of New York gangster flicks to confront unequal portrayals in Hollywood. Director King portrays social roles and race through the comic lens in a shocking, but funny race reversal. 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

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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

4/8/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: The Longest Yard Funny Moments

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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)

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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

3/13/15 Shall We Dance Friday: Excerpts From The Ballerinas (1987) – Starring Carla Fracci

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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)

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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