Slumdog Millionaire Dominates Oscars

Congratulations to Slumdog Millionaire which won Oscars in the following categories:

Best Picture
Best Director
Cinematography
Film Editing
Original Score
Original Song: “Jai Ho”
Sound Mixing
Best Adapted Screenplay

Casting Strange Update

Its been reported at The Root that the new movie “New in Town,” starring Renee Zellweger actually started out as a fish-out-of-water tale about a southern black woman who ends up working in a small midwestern town. How did it morph into a vehicle about a white woman from Miami transplanted to a small [...]

VIEWPOINT: Casting Strange

[Note: The title of this post is a play on the title of the Broadway musical and now Spike Lee film Passing Strange.]
Robert Downey, Jr.’s nomination for an Oscar for his role in Tropic Thunder got me thinking about whether it is appropriate to award any performance done in black face. I personally wasn’t [...]