Black on Black Cinema - Black Movie Reviews

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl." The film starts on an empty road in the middle of the night, where Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. The random topic of the week is all about Juelz Santana's comments on kids not needing to know how to read in the modern era and that it is somehow more important to know how to start a business instead. The host discuss the levels of anti-intellectualism that is within these ideas and why we as a community need to push back on them hard.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2024 film, 40 Acres. The film follows a Black and First Nation family in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by famine. Their routine has kept the fed and safe for many years. The household is headed by Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) who's connection to her family is put in peril when their farm is attacked by cannibals.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to introduce the next film, "40 Acres." The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic world with food scarcity, as a Black family of Canadian farmers, descended from American Civil War migrants, they defend their homestead against cannibals trying to seize their resources. The random topic this week is all about the November 4th special elections that happened around the country. While it certain was a positive night, we discuss this but also what the real fight ahead looks like and why people like Charlemagne tha god's advice to Democrats is not only hypocritical but also deeply wrong.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2025 horror film, Him. The story follows a young college athlete who descends into a world of terror when he's invited to train with a legendary champion whose charisma curdles into something darker. The film stars Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to preview their next film review: Him (2025) — a chilling psychological horror story about a promising young athlete whose invitation to train with a legendary champion quickly descends into manipulation, control, and terror. This gripping thriller explores the dark side of mentorship, power, and identity.In this week’s discussion segment, we deliver a 10-month check-in on the Trump administration’s catastrophic return to power. From devastating ICE raids in major cities, to soaring food prices, and farmer bankruptcies triggered by renewed tariffs, we break down how everyday Americans are paying the price — literally and figuratively — for nationalist policy failure. Is the country unraveling under the weight of authoritarian overreach and economic instability?

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2024 film, Blink Twice. This directorial debut of actress Zoe Kravitz follows a waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie) who is invited to the private island of celebrity billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) and his friends. Things start to get odd, and Frida starts to question her situation.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, Zoe Kravitz directorial debut, "Blink Twice." The film follows tech billionaire Slater King who meets a cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, and Frida questions her reality. The random topic this week is about a conversation between NY Times writer/podcaster Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates who go back and forth about statements Klein and others made in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss director Spike Lee's latest film "Highest 2 Lowest" starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky. The film follows a music mogul, David King, who's life gets flipped upside down when his son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film to be reviewed, Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest" starring Denzel Washington, and Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky. The film follows a titan music mogul who is targeted with a ransom plot, causing him to be jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. The random topic this week is about the recent public killing of rightwing hatemonger Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of college students in Utah. At the time of this recording, the suspected shooter (Tyler Robinson, 22, white male) had not be apprehended by the FBI.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew return to discuss the 2022 film, "Brother." An adaptation of David Chariandy's award-winning novel of the same name, the film centres on the relationship between Francis and Michael, two Black Canadian brothers growing up in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario in the early 1990s. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Francis and Lamar Johnson as Michael, with supporting cast members including Kiana Madeira, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray, Maurice Dean Wint, and Dwain Murphy.