A walk back to film making -When movies were made :::Do the right thing, Five Heartbeats, New Jack City

Looking at movies being made today and movies that were made in the 90's there is a huge difference in the presentation. Not to knock all films being made, but the problem is clear that Hollywood, black Hollywood has not been allowed to product the films that matter. After '94 the films became redundant with a few gems in between. Do not get me wrong there were some classics that, were released but they were too far-too few, between each other.

Here are some scenes from movies that held it down from the late 80's to the early 90's. I dare you to argue.

The five heartbeats:

New Jack City (brief nudity)

Do the right thing:

The Trailer ( bonus)

This is but a short look into my series. A walk back to film making-When movies were made!

Ne-yo, Method Man, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding jr in Red Tails

The diversity behind this film is great. It will showcase a broad range of personallity, once on screen will pop. 

What’s better than a historic film based on the Tuskegee Airmen…. the answer is a cast that rivals that of recent blockbusters including Dreamgirls, Stomp The Yard and the forthcoming flick ‘Fighting’.

Noted producer/talent George Lucas has put together a diverse cast for the anticipated World War II action/adventure ‘Red Tails’ that not only includes Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Ne-Yo but both Terrence Howard and Hip Hop veteran Method Man!

The trio, noted for their roles in other films including ‘Stomp The Yard’ and ‘Hustle & Flow’ will be joined by Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker, Elijah Kelly, Jesse Williams, Tristan Wilds (90210, The Wire), David Oyelowo and Lee Teregesen to name a few.

So just who exactly are the Tuskegee Airmen you may ask and why are these gentlemen on board for the film?

In the event that the Tuskegee Airmen were overlooked in your history textbook, as they often are breezed over, the group of young men from Tuskegee, Alabama became the first African American fighter pilots in the U.S. Military. In fact, their planes featured red painted tails — thus the title “Red Tails”.

According to Variety, “Red Tails” is slated to be shot in Europe this year and will likely hit theaters in mid-late 2010.

George Lucas, also known for “Star Wars,” recently conveyed excitement over the forthcoming picture:

“I’ve been wanting to do ‘Red Tails’ for 20 years, and we’ve finally got the means to showcase the skill of the Tuskegee pilots,” Lucas tells Variety. “We’re working on techniques which will give us the first true look at the aerial dogfighting of the era.”

Lucas will executive produce and finance “Red Tails” through Lucasfilm production company with Anthony Hemingway directing.

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan is also slated to make her acting debut in the film centered around the young pilots’ struggle to overcome institutional racism in the early 1940

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How to Kill Kings?

Kings...one of the best new shows television has offered in a long time is in its last eight breaths. How can something so well written, be given so little of a chance to survive? Putting the show on on a Sunday is the first mistake that the network made in bringing the kings to the masses. Everyone knows nothing last on Sunday but Church and picnics in summer. 

Look at Star Trek, it was cancelled and not only is it a hit in reruns it has spawned followers of all ages, spin offs and adaptations that you can not count in one lifetime. 

So How do you Kill Kings. Have the appear in court on Sunday and no one will listen or stand around to watch. Lucky for me I have nothing to do on Sunday but hate that Monday is on its way. So I am around to watch the show and enjoy every bit of it.

Personally I think that prime time should begin at 7pm and reruns start a bit earlier and we get rid of all these TV judges who do nothing by look like Jerry Springer in a robe. Seriously who wants to watch that stuff? 

Save the Kings!! Save the Kings!!

Before I go I want you to read what I a fellow blogger had to say:

Well, exit the Kings. NBC has moved its lush, sweeping, and increasingly good dramatic experiment from its valuable Sunday night slot to Saturdays, where it will play out its remaining eight episodes, then die. Sad.

Though the show—about an alternate reality where a monarchy reigns in thinly-disguised New York—can be a tad too sweeping and bombastic at times, and some of its conceits play pretty clunkily (see: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as palace guards), it's still intricate and intriguing. It's at turns sexy and violent, bitingly well-written and fascinatingly ambitious. It's full of magic and heavy-handed religiosity and some weird old dramatic ideal that you rarely see off the Shakespeare stage.

The production values alone are worth slobbering over. Getting a Terrence Malick look on a TV budget is not an easy thing to pull off, and the series' cinematographers (including Darren Genet) have so far pulled it off beautifully every week. Plus, you know, there are lots of pretty people on it—whether they're swaddled in proper military uniform or slinky ballgowns.

So if you haven't yet checked it out, I still strongly suggest you do. It might not be your cup of tea, but certainly give it a chance. Artistic derringdo—from the flowery, lyrical writing to the evocative, Gladiator-esque music to Ian McShane's gravelly, stylized towering performance—is so rarely recognized and fostered on network TV. You wonder, sadly, (or maybe hopefully!), how this show would fare on the pay cable stations. Maybe they'd give it more of a chance. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day. It took two whole seasons.

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Ultimate Questions :::: King Magazine?

King Magazine. I can not lie I loved the magazine in its prime and way up until a year ago. It seemed that this magazine was doomed to fail at some point. Right? I mean I am going to miss buffie the body, Angel with the implanted glute's, and a host of other guest cover girls who till this day make me boil, except for superhead( I cant get past the amount of it she had given). 

Since it is the illest men's magazine I want to send it off with one question. Why did this magazine lack so much? Where was the real editorial. At least Heff and the boys at maxim make an attempt to leave you with something more than a six inch boner. Lets be real I want the centerfold back but I hated paying $4.99 for something that sucked this bad. I must admit I waited for the pics to be posted online to get my fill of the centerfold, once I had it all figured out.

Would this magazine have made an impression outside of the black community, it its content were more universal? Would this magazine have lasted if it built on more than just the curves and car ads? Seriously, doesn't anyone think that the African American male, require a bit more edification than that, which King magazine offered? 

So my question is what will we do upon the return of the Black gentleman's magazine? Maybe this time around it should be a Gentleman's magazine, emphasis on gentleman. Let think for a minute that may the community deserves a little food for thought. 

Bankruptcy does not only come from poor money handling, when it comes to business. If this rag has real articles, did not repeat the women that it portrayed in the magazine, featured more than the rapper or R&B singer who appeared in other mags that month. Perhaps the substance would have been there. I am just speculating.

I don't want to say too much it is important that you think about this one. 

So again I ask! What will the new and improved Black Gentleman's magazine look like? Will it be based on the new administrations leader? Will they take initiative to offer something other than the formula that has been offered to the black man for the past 15 years? 

Here are 17 sections that should be included in the new gentleman magazine:

1. Politics
2. Art history
3. How to dress on a budget
4. How to buy the finest things for less
5. What to eat
6. Where to travel
7. Short Stories
8. Real Advice on how to make it in the new world
9. Financial
10. How to cook a meal
11. Financial advice
12. How to act when you see women 
13. How to treat them
14. Include College educated centerfolds or one that is a bit more than a Butt( although I do not mind her having one.)
15. Where to eat in your city
16. Fitness tips
17. Getting outdoors(fight a bear, we will see how tough you are)

As a parting gift before the final issue. I will like to leave your with a set of videos to show you how much they cared about the other sections of the magazine.

Christina Millian photoshoot

Angels lola luv's Photoshoot

Melyssa Ford

That is just a few for you. The rest find on your own...perv.