Alien

Year: 1979
Runtime: 117 mins
Cinema releases
25/05/1979
06/09/1979

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Ridley Scott


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A Good Day to Be Black And Sexy

Year: 2008
Runtime: 92 mins
Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Dennis Dortch
Written by: Dennis Dortch

Synopsis
Press play on A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY. A mixed tape of deftly arranged vignettes on Black Love, Sex, and Reciprocity. What you hear may be unrecognizable at first... Neo-realistic intimacy between black people found in rare grooves previously drowned out by the sounds of modern hook-ups and bougie preoccupations, a cacophony of mass-produced beats created with drum machine loops and software. A Good Day to be Black and Sexy is that dusty LP you find in the crates. But as soon as you put the needle to wax, all the forgotten lyrics return to your lips in this dreamy love sonnet to the beautiful and chocolate coated.

The intro track is a prelude into the heavily sensual world of expectations - the rhythm that drives the film. Erotic moments are lullabies that turn into syncopated groves without notice. This record skips, and jumps to the hook of a Millie Jackson remix. An anthem belted out by a minx who knows her limits, but can't resist testing the boundaries. It's a song a sistah can roll her neck and snap her fingers to, exuding, at least for the moment, the confidence that every Black woman wished they had underneath the facade.

When the bridge is over, a slow jam slides in- the one from prom night when curfews were extended and hotel rooms were reserved. Back when wistful notions of love were only true when written in diaries and carved on school desks. A sticky interlude eases in and out of the song, and you move a little closer and wrap your arms around to dance tighter, until growing up too fast and maturing too late, causes innocence to be lost too soon. Needle getting closer to the middles leaving the last cut a re-imagined version of masculinity, basketball, and the inability to freely love who you want to love, at the ease that non-Negroes take for granted. Time runs out and so does the tape. Eject

Gran Torino

Year: 2008
Cinema releases
17/12/2008

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Action, Drama

Slumdog Millionaire

Year: 2008
Runtime: 120 mins
Cinema releases
12/11/2008
23/01/2009

Country: UK, USA
Language: English, Hindi
 
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Written by: Simon Beaufoy

Push

Year: 2009
Cinema releases
06/02/2009
06/02/2009

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Written by: David Bourla

Up

Year: 2009
Cinema releases
29/05/2009
17/07/2009

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Written by: Bob Peterson

The Ugly Truth

Year: 2009
Cinema releases
03/04/2009
17/04/2009

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Robert Luketic
Genre: Comedy, Romance

The Proposal

Year: 2009
Cinema releases
12/06/2009
07/08/2009
 

The Haunting in Connecticut

Year: 2009

Country: USA
Language: English
 
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Directed by: Peter Cornwell

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