Black on Black Cinema - Black Movie Reviews

In this preview episode the next movie, Glory, is introduced. The movie is currently on Youtube in its entirety. The movie deals with an all black regiment of soldiers serving in the military during the Civil War.

This week on Black on Black Cinema the guys take a look at World War 2 through the eyes of young black fighter pilots. Red Tails, a movie that examines the heroism of black fighter pilots during World War 2 takes place squarely in 1940s Italy. Through adversity and shear determination the Red Tails make their massive impact on history.

In this preview episode the next movie, Red Tails, is introduced. The movie is currently on HBO. The movie deals with the WW2 Tuskegee Airmen and their quest to be seen as equal to white fighter pilots.

This week on Black on Black Cinema we keep the theme of drug dealing and its impact going with the 1991 hit New Jack City directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Wesley Snipes, ICE-T, Chris Rock, and Allen Payne. A story about the rise of a violent, yet charismatic, crack cocaine drug dealer named Nino Brown in New York City in the late 1980s.

This is a mini episode to give you a heads up as to what movie the guys will be tackling next. The guys will deal with the mad world of New York City in the late 1980s as it is overrun by the crack epidemic.

The guys sit down and discuss the famed blaxploitation film, Superfly, starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest. A story of a cocaine dealer in New York during the 1970s desperately trying to leave his drug dealing lifestyle and start over.