What’s On My Shelf–Random Selection

From time to time on this blog, I’m going to write posts about some older films that I love.  To that end, I took a look in my own movie collection and found about twenty-plus films I’d like to highlight on this blog.  If you haven’t seen some of these films, hopefully you’ll be inspired [...]

Movie Review: Miracle at St. Anna–A Spike Lee Joint

This weekend I went to see the new Spike Lee film Miracle at St. Anna.  It’s a movie based on the novel by James McBride who also adapted the screenplay.  In sum, it’s about four WWII Buffalo soldiers who are trapped behind enemy lines in a small Italian village.  I can’t say this is the [...]

Welcome to The Sepia Screen

This blog is dedicated to chronicling films featuring people of color in non-stereotypical roles.  My reasons for starting this blog are summed up in an article I wrote this summer on my other blog mesoamused.com and appears below:

My Struggle with Hollywood’s Quintessential Negro
August 24, 2008

This week I was able to attend a screening of the movie “The Express” [...]

Redbelt

Normally you wouldn’t catch me at a any type of martial arts movie although I will admit to The Last Dragon (80’s schlock/guilty pleasure), The Karate Kid (80’s Rite of Passage), and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Perfection).  But otherwise that’s not me.  What sucked me into this film was it’s star Chiwetel Ejiofor who I’ve been [...]

Traitor

“Traitor,” is a recently released film starring one of my favorite actors Don Cheadle. [I have liked Cheadle since back in the day when he was on the David E. Kelly show "Picket Fences" and Cheadle's stock went way up when he played "Mouse" in "Devil in a Blue Dress."] I have one word for this film: [...]