Before Black Panther and Creed, Ryan Coogler made this short film at USC. This was the first collaboration between director Coogler and composer Ludwig Goransson. Both attended USC Film School at the same time. Continue reading
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Tag: Hollywood Monday
3/23/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall is a American Western Film directed by Jeymes Samuel, who co-wrote the screenplay with Boaz Yakin.The film stars Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi and Deon Cole. Continue reading
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
3/2/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Stormy Weather- Lena Horne, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway, Nicholas Brothers, Katherine Dunham and dancers
Stormy Weather is a 1943 film musical produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The movie is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with an all African-American cast and serve to showcase of some of the top African-American performers of the time. Continue reading
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
2/4/26 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Big Ben – Lady Sings The Blues
Lady Sings The Blues is the story of jazz singer Billie Holiday and is loosely based on her 1956 autobiography. The name of the film was taken from one of Holiday’s most popular songs.
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
1/12/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Sounder – Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks
Sounder (1972) is a film drama based on the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong about a black depression era sharecropper family in Louisiana. The movie starred Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks. Musician Taj Mahal composed the film’s blue-inspired soundtrack and appears in a supporting role. Continue reading
1/5/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Life of Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989)
Alvin Ailey revolutionized the world of dance by honoring the African American experience, but his journey was not without its struggles. O&A NYC Magazine honors the memory of one of dance’s most prolific pioneers on the anniversary of his 95th birthday. Continue reading
12/29/25 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Miracle In Harlem (1948)
Miracle in Harlem (1948) is a independent American film known as a race film, featuring an all-African American cast. is a murder mystery melodrama with musical elements, considered one of the better films of its genre from that era. The cast in the all black cast included Sheila Guyse as Julie Weston, Hilda Offley as Aunt Hattie, William Greaves as Bert Hallam (Julie’s boyfriend), Stepin Fetchit as Swifty, the handyman, Laurence Criner as Albert Marshall, and vocalists Savannah Churchill, Juanita Hall, and the Lynn Proctor Trio. Continue reading
