 | 187
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(47 reviews) 
Customer Review: Sometimes intelligent,sometimes silly: Sam Jackson plays a hard working New York teacher.At the very start of the movie we see him get brutally stabbed by the Wu Tang Clan's Method Man because he flunked him.A |
 | A Soldier's Story
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(02 June, 1998)
(13 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Director Norman Jewison's (In the Heat of the Night) 1984 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the ramifications of racism and loyalty through the prism of blacks in the military, revealed through a murder mystery set in the 1940s deep South. |
 | Amistad
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(99 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, |
 | Beloved
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by Touchstone Video
VHS Tape
(02 November, 1999)
(113 reviews)
Editorial Review: This layered film, a labor of love from director Jonathan Demme and star Oprah Winfrey, covers a lot of turf in its nearly three-hour running time. Part slavery fable, part mother-daughter tale, part ghost story, |
 | Boyz N the Hood
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(09 March, 1999)
(71 reviews)
Editorial Review: John Singleton, at the age of 23, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his debut film, Boyz N the Hood. The film stars Laurence Fishburne, Angela Basset, Ice Cube, and Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. |
 | Clockers
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: An Average Joint: This crime drama about a troubled, confused teen boy has some well-done elements but the overall result isn`t too exciting or innovative. |
 | Daughters of the Dust
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by Kino Video
VHS Tape
(13 February, 1996)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Working with a theme and history that's obviously dear to her heart, first-time writer-director Julie Dash's exquisitely alive film chronicles the last days of the Gullah, an Americanized West African people in danger of losing their identity. |
 | Devil in a Blue Dress
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by Columbia/Tristar 2
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Easy Does It!: It is the end of WWII. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins(Denzel Washington) returns from the war to find segregation,discrimination, |
 | Do the Right Thing
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(94 reviews)
Editorial Review: Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. |
 | Down in the Delta
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by Miramax Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(06 February, 2001)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: This family drama begins in a gritty Chicago neighborhood with ajobless, hopeless mother (Alfre Woodard) pouring her efforts into the bottle and various drugs rather than her troubled daughter and wise-beyond-his-years son. |
 | Eve's Bayou
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by Vidmark/Trimark
VHS Tape
(08 September, 1998)
(34 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve's Bayou begins with ominous narration: "The summer I killed my father, |
 | Glory
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(02 October, 1991)
(279 reviews)
Customer Review: Honor and Horror: The story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry is told in a solid and entertaining movie. The casting is brilliant, |
 | He Got Game
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by Touchstone Video
VHS Tape
(15 January, 2002)
(59 reviews)
Customer Review: This movie has game: I must say that Spike Lee did a great job in making this movie. Jake (Denzel Washington) plays a prisoner who is in jail for murdering his wife years ago. |
 | Higher Learning
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(09 January, 1996)
(67 reviews)
Editorial Review: This ambitious 1995 film by John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) doesn't quite succeed at painting the illuminating, collective portrait of college life in the '90s that the director seeks. But Singleton does do a fine job of defining some conflicting impulses for young people on the cusp of adulthood, |
 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(28 December, 1998)
(66 reviews)
Editorial Review: Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, How StellaGot Her Groove Back stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mom whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. |
 | Jungle Fever
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. |
 | Love Jones
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by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(04 June, 2002)
(76 reviews)
Editorial Review: Boy meets girl, and boy loses girl--no more and no less than that--in this romantic story of young, upwardly mobile African Americans navigating through Chicago club culture to the perilous shores of a relationship. |
 | Malcolm X
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(03 February, 2004)
(72 reviews)
Editorial Review: Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, |
 | Miss Evers' Boys
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by Hbo Studios
VHS Tape
(07 August, 2001)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, |
 | Mississippi Masala
list: $92.36
by Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Hardcover
(January, 1992)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Mira Nair, the Indian director, scored an international art-house hit with her feature debut, Salaam Bombay!, a tale of life in the streets of seething urban India. Her next film was a surprising turnabout: Mississippi Masala is a cultural study and a love story set in the rural American south. |
 | Mo' Better Blues
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(26 reviews)
Editorial Review: With Mo' Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeter's rise to jazz-world stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwood's cliché-ridden biopic of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, |
 | Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
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by Republic Studios
VHS Tape
(18 December, 2001)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: Tim Reid's wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-'40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, is thick with terrific, inspired actors and possessed of a mature, |
 | Rosewood
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(30 reviews)
Customer Review: excellent docu-drama: What an excellent movie. A moving portrait of the 1922 massacre in Rosewood, Florida. Without shedding too much blood or jeopardizing the truth of the story through unneccessary action, |
 | Set It Off
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by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(02 September, 2003)
(35 reviews)
Customer Review: Amateurish but entertaining: "Set it Off" is far from remarkable, but it's amiable and entertaining. The screenplay was definitely written by amateurs, |
 | Soul Food
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(07 January, 1998)
(30 reviews)
Editorial Review: Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production, and it's got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. |
 | The Color Purple (Widescreen Edition)
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by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(17 December, 2002)
(128 reviews)
Editorial Review: Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. |
 | The Preacher's Wife
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by Touchstone Video
VHS Tape
(13 August, 2002)
(24 reviews)
Editorial Review: This tedious remake of the classic Christmas movie The Bishop's Wife falls on its face by significantly altering the careful design of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert E. Sherwood's story for the original film. |
 | The Tuskegee Airmen
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by Hbo Studios
VHS Tape
(16 May, 2000)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, Iowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. |
 | The Watermelon Woman
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by First Run Features
VHS Tape
(16 March, 1999)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Widening the Spectrum: Multiple Issues, Multiple Minorities: As a lesbian film student of color, I find inspiration in Cheryl Dunye's vision. |
 | Waiting to Exhale
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(18 April, 1996)
(37 reviews)
Editorial Review: Based on a novel by Terry McMillan, this weepy melodrama about four African American women and the men who wronged them became an instant cultural phenomenon when it was released back in 1995. It's easy to see why Exhale struck a nerve: the movie boasts an attractive cast of African American actresses and personalities, |
 | What's Love Got To Do With It?
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by Walt Disney Home Video
VHS Tape
(04 June, 2002)
(34 reviews)
Editorial Review: Tina Turner, that dynamic diva of pop/soul/R&B from the '60s to the '90s, sings like a woman whose life story is every bit as rough and tough as her voice. And What's Love Got to Do With It, based on her autobiographical account (inI, |
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