17 May Thor | Film Review
For Hollywood this officially is the year of the comic book. And with Spiderman 3 and The Dark Knight ranking as some of the biggest (and fastest) grossers in recent years, who can blame the studios involved for investing in the lives of bedraggled mutants, transforming immigrant robots from outer space and a general mesh of troubled super and not so super human freaks in outlandish costumes. So with X-Men – First Class imminent and The Green Lantern, Transformers – Dark of the Moon and Captain America – The First Avenger also on the horizon, Thor is the first in a very long series of comic book adaptations which will run well into next year, with a new installment of Spiderman and Marvel Studio’s Avengers due to emerge then.
If Thor is a merely a sign of things to come in the multiplexes then surely good things await us this summer. For seldom has a film of this size seemed so engrossed with getting the balance right (between action, romance, great special effects, good CGI and a decent story) and pretty much succeeded.
Blaxplotation is a film genre that emerged in America in the early '70s targeted at black audiences both in the underground and mainstream sectors. Blaxploitation creators didn't imagine at the time that they were making art films that would transcend black culture and decades later be considered iconographic, pop royalty and in the process influence the world’s greatest directors.
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) has a lot of influences but it's the Blaxploitation-inspired Samuel L. Jackson character that gave the mocked sub-pop genre a place in the heart of both critics/Oscars and the masses.
It's essential to highlight Pulp Fiction because beyond being the Blaxploitation style's biggest triumph, created decades later by a white man who perpetually made the genre commercially viable and loved by all races and credos, it is also considered by many as the greatest film of all time.
The latest addition to the Blaxploitation timeline, 
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
Starring: Anika Noni Rose, John Goodman, Keith David, Bruno Campos, Jim Cummings, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard
Disney are back doing what they do best with The Princess & The Frog. As their first hand-drawn animated musical since Mulan (1998) and the first ever Disney movie to feature an African-American princess, this film is a must see.
The story is set in the vibrant city of New Orleans during the 1920’s and if you haven’t figured out by now, it’s a new take on the famous ‘Frog Princess’ fairytale. You know, the one where the princess has to kiss the frog prince to make him human again?