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It was exceedingly rare for a big studio movie in the 1940s to have an all-Black cast, but Cabin In The Sky is the exception. Starring Lena Horne, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and Ethel Waters, it's a ...
Check out these films and TV series that feature iconic Black vampire after you watch Ryan Coogler's hit action-horror ...
The star of early-'70s action pictures stopped by the 'It Happened in Hollywood' podcast to discuss movie history and the making of 1997's 'Jackie Brown.' ...
Here are five critical entries in the Black vampire movie canon and how their tackling of social issues adds to the subgenre.
"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn't support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." ...
Those movies, which still draw sold-out revival house crowds 50 years later, are now commonly referred to as “blaxploitation” pictures — a term Grier says was introduced by marketers at ...