3/9/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Good Fences – Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Mo’Nique

Tom Spader (Danny Glover) is an upwardly mobile black middle class attorney determined to end the black man’s losing streak. Now the family is off to the suburbs. It is 1973, and the lily-white community of Greenwich, Connecticut, doesn’t quite deliver on the promise of the American Dream. Continue reading

3/4/26 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Cotton Comes To Harlem- Iris, Officer Jerema and the Paper Bag

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Cotton Comes to Harlem was the beginning of short period in American film that featured black actors in leading roles and the themes dealt with issues from the African-American microcosm. With a screenplay by Arnold Perl and Ossie Davis, and  directed by Davis this action drama represents the black perspective. Much of the film’s humor is urban black comedy, which was groundbreaking in 1970.

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2/23/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Liberation of L.B. Jones- Roscoe Lee Browne – Introducing Lola Falana

In the 1970 film drama The Liberation of L.B. Jones a wealthy Black undertaker, Lord Byron (L.B.) Jones performed by Roscoe Lee Browne, seeks to engage a respected lawyer to represent him in a divorce action against Emma (Lola Falana), his young wife who’s having an affair with Willie Joe Worth (Anthony Zerbe), a white cop. Jones is seeking a divorce from his considerably younger Emma, alleging she had an affair with white police officer Willie Joe Worth, whom he suspects is the biological father of her unborn child. Continue reading

2/16/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: St Louis Blues(1958) – Nat King Cole Eartha Kitt

St. Louis Blues is a 1958 film broadly based on the life of W.C. Handy, in which both Eartha Kitt and Nat King Cole starred. Nat King Cole played the leading role of W.C. Handy, while Eartha Kitt played the character Gogo Germaine, a glamorous nightclub singer. Continue reading

2/14/26 O&A NYC ITS SATURDAY ANYTHING GOES: Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues is a biographical musical drama starring Diana Ross in her Academy Award-nominated film debut as the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Continue reading

2/14/26 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES: Daddy Wa And Family S1 EP2 – Falz, Tobi Bakre, Lizzy Jay, Mummy Wa, Blessing Onkwukwe, Itohan

Enjoy the drama and chaos cooking in Episode 2 of Daddy Wa and Family, with one man managing the affairs of three different women and their extended problems, Crixus and Spartacus are relentless in the pursuit of Mummy Wa leading them into premium problems. Continue reading

2/13/26 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ PRIME VIDEO TRAILER: Scarpetta – Official Trailer

 

Prime Video has officially unveiled the trailer for Scarpetta, the highly anticipated forensic thriller fronted by Nicole Kidman as the titular Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Based on the prolific book series by Patricia Cornwell, the show positions Kidman as a brilliant medical examiner returning to her former post to confront a grisly murder that threatens to unravel her career. Continue reading

1/28/26 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Good Times – Black Jesus -The Evans Family’s Lucky Charm

J.J. (Jimmie Walker) has painted a portrait of Black Jesus and it turns out it brings a lot of good luck to the family (Esther Rolle, John Amos, BernNadette Stanis and Ralph Carter). However, Florida is not a big fan of him. Continue reading

1/26/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Lilies Of The Field – Starring Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar as a warm, sensitive handyman who, while stranded in an Arizona desert town, builds a chapel for a lively group of nuns (including Lilia Skala). Continue reading

12/28/25 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ PRIME VIDEO TRAILER: Madden – Official Teaser

Prime Video debuted the first teaser for Madden, the highly anticipated biopic from director David O. Russell. In a casting choice as bold as a fourth-down conversion, Nicolas Cage steps into the headset of John Madden. Continue reading