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Buried deep within your Netflix queue of House Of Cards Season Two and Family Guy, you’ll find these top classic Hip-Hop flicks streaming on the service.

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Samuel L. Jackson is a world renowned Black actor. Laurence Fishburne is a world renowned Black actor. They looking nothing alike.

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Tupac “2Pac” Shakur was just as known for his acting chops along with his celebrated rap career, and showed range in classic films such as Juice and Poetic Justice. But according to an industry insider, 2Pac was pegged to read for a part in one of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises in George Lucas’ Stars Wars […]

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With all the festivities this past Thanksgiving brought to the entertainment realm, apparently everyone forgot Spike Lee had a movie out. Despite solid reviews on Metacritic, Lee’s remake of 2004’s Oldboy only managed to muster up $850K over the holiday weekend, an average of just $1,458 in the 583 theaters it was shown in.

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Lovers of classic ’80s cinema will enjoy the first trailer for the reboot of Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi film Robocop. Set to release February 7 of next year, expect aspects of this José Padilha-directed film to greatly differ from the original story line.

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Director and film producer Spike Lee returns to the big screen this fall, tackling a revered Asian thriller that critics across the board called one of the best of all time. Oldboy, originally a South Korean film released in 2003, gets a remake from Mr. Lee and stars Josh Brolin as the protagonist. 

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Controversy and slavery make for box office gold. Less than a month after its release, Django Unchained has reached the $100 million mark. The milestone keeps Django on pace to become director Quentin Tarantino’s most successful film, surpassing 2009’s Inglorious Bastards.

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A recent interview that nearly went unnoticed with Samuel L. Jackson is stirring up a bit of controversy while making the rounds on the Internets. During a  press junket for the Quentin Taratino-directed Django Unchained, the veteran actor dares a white interviewer to utter the controversial “n-word” on camera. 

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When Quentin Tarantino first announced that he was making the film, Django Unchained, about a slave who lands a gig as a bounty hunter, he likely expected that there would be backlash. He’s been criticized by people like Spike Lee for even making a slave film, raised eyebrows over Jamie Foxx’s unbelievably straight hairline (slaves didn’t own electric […]

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What’s the cost of a human life? For bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz it can run between $200 to $7,500 depending on the person, but for a slave named Django, the number is decidedly different. This is the story that Quentin Tarantino told in his latest flick Django Unchained. The previews would have you believe […]

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According to polls, President Barack Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney are in a tight contest with either side just besting the other by mere points depending on the survey. Both men have catered their campaign talks to a variety of audiences, including the African-American community. Just how critical is the Black vote to this race? […]

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Samuel L. Jackson wants Americans to vote for President Obama and he’s not above using colorful word choices to get the job done. According to Politico, as early as tomorrow, the esteemed actor, will film an ad in support of the president’s re-election bid. The verbiage used in the spot, is a play on Jackson’s […]