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  Hallelujah 1929

  ★★★½ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  One of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first sound films, and among the very first Hollywood films to feature an entirely Black cast, “Hallelujah” was an attempt made in good faith to give Black actors a visibility never before attained in mainstream America, notwithstanding how much it suffers from the prevalent racial stereotypes of the day.

  “Hallelujah” is the story of two sharecropping brothers Zeke and Spunk (Daniel L. Haynes & Everett McGarity) who sell their family’s crops for $100, only for Zeke to lose…

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  Sidney 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  Sidney Poitier was never expected to live.

  The youngest of Reginald & Evelyn Poitier’s seven children, he was born two months premature in the Bahamas. His parents were abjectly poor farmers who lived on Cat Island. They frequented Miami to sell an assortment of produce to wholesalers, and Poitier’s father also held a job as a cabbie.

  The world as he’d known it as a child was 180 degrees from the world as he’d know it from 1942 on. He was…

Popular reviews

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  The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978

  ½ Added

  The only ever Star Wars film to make the prequels look GOOD. And that's saying something.

  In conclusion: Fuck Life Day.

  That is all.

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  Superman 1941

  ★★★★★ Added

  The pilot entry of the Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman series is the first cartoon short I've ever reviewed.

  Paramount's cartoon adaptation of Superman remains among my favorite film incarnations of the comic strip, second only to the 1978 feature film itself.

  It is easily one of the most lavish, technically sophisticated, and expensive cartoon shorts of its time; the first entry in this series of shorts cost $50,000 to produce. Superman captures the Fleischer Studios at the height of its creative…