Just When You Thought It Was Safe
(Africana.com)
No open-minded, open-eyed person can deny that Hollywood films target, profile and demean black characters as a regular narrative convention... [a]s her voice-over sets the plot, the camera roams the city inhabitants; it comes upon a black man just as the voice-over says, "The only way to deal with them is to annihilate them." I'm not much of a horror- or vampire-movie fan, but I know that in my beloved sci-fi stories, the brutha always dies first. Now some will argue, but what about "The Matrix?" Morpheus lives. Well, hold on soup-coola, that's the other role penciled into the margin for those Negroes: the mystical sidekick that happily opens the doors of perception to the typically white lead. Think "medicine man" or "witch doctor." Think "Driving Miss Daisy," the Black person who's always there with that special way of seeing things. And think about "The Matrix Reloaded," we had The Architect, looking like Colonel (KFC) Sanders, talking about how he was "perfect" but that it took a less-perfect program, the Oracle -- a Black woman -- to help him understand that anomaly that Neo represented. I could do an entire blog that breaks this down the point of this article, across all genres ... and stay tuned, I just might.
Blogged: Sunday, October 19, 2003

(warning: some of these links may have expired)

1. 2012 Trailer
   (Moviefone)
   Blogged: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2. Review: Wanted (2008)
   Blogged: Thursday, July 10, 2008
3. Review: Kung Fu Panda (2008)
   Blogged: Thursday, June 26, 2008
4. Review: Iron Man
   Blogged: Saturday, May 3, 2008
5. Review: Cloverfield (2008)
   Blogged: Sunday, February 3, 2008
6. The Movies
   Blogged: Thursday, January 17, 2008
7. Review: Superbad
   Blogged: Monday, August 20, 2007
8. Review: The Bourne Ultimatum
   Blogged: Monday, August 6, 2007
9. Review: Transformers
   Blogged: Sunday, July 15, 2007
10. Review: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
11. Star Wars auteur shares his take on YouTube
    (AllThingsD)
    Blogged: Thursday, May 31, 2007
12. Eddie Griffin wrecks rare $1.5 million Ferrari
    (CNN.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
13. Review: 300
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Thursday, March 22, 2007
14. Black Sheep
    Blogged: Sunday, March 4, 2007
15. Can Computer Models Help Select Better Movie Scripts?
    (Knowledge@Wharton)
    Blogged: Thursday, November 30, 2006
16. Amazon.com Unbox
    Blogged: Friday, September 8, 2006
17. The Found Footage Festival
    Blogged: Friday, September 8, 2006
18. Snakes on the internet, too?
    (Freakonomics Blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, September 3, 2006
19. Albert Einstein Robot
    (YouTube/ROBORAMA.info)
    Blogged: Saturday, August 26, 2006
20. The Frank Caliendo Effect
    (I, Cringely)
    Blogged: Saturday, August 26, 2006
21. 'Snakes on a Plane' fails to charm moviegoers
    (CNN Money)
    Blogged: Monday, August 21, 2006
22. Nollywood
    Blogged: Sunday, August 6, 2006
23. Three flicks, three strikes...and out!
    (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
    Blogged: Monday, July 24, 2006
24. 78th Annual Academy Awards
    (OSCAR.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 5, 2006
25. Movie Trailers
    Blogged: Friday, October 14, 2005
26. Spike Lee slams Hollywood
    (Telegraph UK)
    Blogged: Friday, September 2, 2005
27. King of Thieves
    (Wired 13.07)
    Blogged: Tuesday, July 19, 2005
28. The fall of Hollywood?
    (Marginal Revolution blog)
    Blogged: Friday, July 15, 2005
29. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
    Blogged: Saturday, June 4, 2005
30. Paperdoll Heaven
    Blogged: Friday, June 3, 2005
31. Love, Cinematical Style?
    (Cinematical blog)
    Blogged: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
32. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Blogged: Sunday, May 29, 2005
33. Store Wars
    Blogged: Sunday, May 15, 2005
34. Tribeca Screening Room
    (Amazon.com)
    Blogged: Thursday, April 21, 2005
35. Best Films of 2004
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
36. Taxi
    Blogged: Wednesday, September 29, 2004
37. Klaatu barada nikto
    (The Day the Earth Stood Still Reference Library)
    Blogged: Thursday, September 16, 2004
38. Hero
    (RottenTomatoes.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, August 29, 2004
39. Remember the Alamo...
    (Silver Rights blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, April 14, 2004
40. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
    (metacritc)
    Blogged: Friday, March 26, 2004
41. Delivering Films to Fans
    (Cinequest Online)
    Blogged: Thursday, March 4, 2004
42. Oscar Winner's List
    (CNN.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, February 29, 2004
43. Khakee
    (HindustanTimes.com)
    Blogged: Monday, January 26, 2004
44. Just When You Thought It Was Safe
    (Africana.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, October 19, 2003
45. The Culture Industry Has You
    (PopPolitics.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, October 1, 2003
46. Matrix Reloaded Explained
    Blogged: Thursday, May 29, 2003
47. What Matrix Persona Are You?
    (Quizilla)
    Blogged: Thursday, May 29, 2003
48. The Spiritual Message of 'The Matrix'
    Blogged: Sunday, May 25, 2003
49. The Architect Script
    (TheAntiTrust)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 21, 2003
50. Project Greenlight
    Blogged: Tuesday, May 20, 2003
51. Matrix Essays
    Blogged: Friday, May 16, 2003
52. Disney to begin renting 'self-destructing' DVDs
    (Yahoo!)
    Blogged: Friday, May 16, 2003
53. Matrix Reloaded
    Blogged: Thursday, May 15, 2003
54. Reloaded
    Blogged: Saturday, April 19, 2003
55. Look Away Dixie Land
    (Ghost in the Machine blog)
    Blogged: Monday, February 24, 2003
56. 75th Annual Academy Awards
    Blogged: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
57. The Matrix Makers
    (MSNBC)
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
58. LOTR: The Two Towers
    (REEL.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, December 24, 2002
59. Murder, revenge, rage ... andﾠapathy
    (LA Times)
    Blogged: Tuesday, December 24, 2002
60. How High (2001)
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Sunday, November 17, 2002
61. Screenwriters: Cut to the Web
    (Wired News)
    Blogged: Saturday, November 16, 2002
62. Valenti presents Hollywood's side of the technology story
    (SiliconValley.com)
    Blogged: Monday, September 23, 2002
63. Barbershop
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Sunday, September 15, 2002
64. Neo/Christ Parallels in The Matrix
    Blogged: Wednesday, July 24, 2002
65. Easter Eggs: Memento
    (Eeggs.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 31, 2002
66. Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop!
    (Salon.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 31, 2002
67. Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop! (QOTD)
    (Salon.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 31, 2002
68. Television doesn't accept new machine that can warp time
    (Newszine)
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
69. 74th Annual Academy Awards
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
70. Project Greenlight
    (HBO Online)
    Blogged: Monday, December 31, 2001
71. Black Hawk Down
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 30, 2001
72. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Wednesday, November 21, 2001
73. Digital Bruce Lee to Star in New Movie
    (washingtonpost.com)
    Blogged: Friday, November 16, 2001
74. From Hell
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 30, 2001
75. Training Day
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Monday, October 29, 2001
76. Zoolander
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 2, 2001
77. A L I E N Legacy
    Blogged: Sunday, September 30, 2001
78. Plots, Marketing of Several Films to be Reworked
    (Mr. Showbiz)
    Blogged: Sunday, September 16, 2001
79. Two Can Play That Game
    (Rotten Tomatoes)
    Blogged: Monday, September 10, 2001
80. Jackie Chan's Injury List
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 20, 2001
81. Ultimate Survivor
    Blogged: Friday, May 4, 2001
82. Josie and the Pussycats
    Blogged: Monday, March 26, 2001
83. The Sopranos: Season Three
    (HBO.com)
    Blogged: Monday, March 5, 2001
84. Ronnie Cramer's Cult Film Site
    Blogged: Saturday, February 24, 2001
85. Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
    Blogged: Wednesday, February 14, 2001
86. The Best Overlooked Movies of 2000
    (Mr Showbiz)
    Blogged: Saturday, January 13, 2001
87. Black and White Mixes Things Up
    Blogged: Wednesday, April 19, 2000
88. Evil Mirror
    Blogged: Saturday, March 18, 2000
89. The Matrix
    Blogged: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
90. Blaxploitation
    Blogged: Friday, January 28, 2000
91. Plotomatic
    (Memepool)
    Blogged: Monday, January 24, 2000
92. Pleasantville
    Blogged: Tuesday, January 18, 2000