Eva Mendes Sex Tape

Eva Mendes Sex Tape from Eva Mendes

The sex tape everyone has been waiting for with Eva Mendes is finally here and you won't believe what kinds of positions she gets into.

The Brothers of Summer

With the new tv show Undercovers premiering next month, starring the already oft-mentioned Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who I know best at Freema Agyeman’s (#1 on my ‘Wifey List’) sister on Dr. Who, and pretty-boy extraordinaire Boris Kodjoe, I thought I’d focus on what seems to be, in a good way, a proliferation of Black men on tv shows lately. Although these guys are supporting characters, they’re playing some pretty intense roles and putting forth some great comedic and dramatic performances. Though none of these are network shows like Undercovers, they are often better (and sometimes better performing) than those.

ZEMIRA short screening a big success!

Just wanted to let my readers (all 15!) know that our August 12th screening of the short version of my film Zemira, entitled A little bit Of More was a success. We had two back to back showings and the room was packed each time. The feedback was instrumental in our getting to the next step as a wide range of film fans, friends, family and other industry folks (actors, producers, programmers, etc) really expressed what they liked and didn't like about it. Thankfully, the latter was a bare minimum.

So Mecca and our D.P. Cisco and I and the rest of the team are going full steam ahead still in trying to make the Zemira feature happen. It's all about the getting the $$$ to finance this now.

film screening - W.A.R. Stories - Walter Anthony Rodney documentary

On Monday, February 8th at the Brecht Forum (451 West Street btw. Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY) filmmaker Clairmont Chung will be screening what looks to be a fantastic new documentary on Guyanese scholar, activist and author Walter Rodney, best known as the author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), who was assassinated in 1980 for his wide-reaching and popular political beliefs of post-independence Guyana and other countries in the West Indies.



Educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Rodney was awarded his PhD with honors in African History. An advocate for the downtrodden in the Caribbean, Rodney was among the many who fought for the empowerment of Black folks of the region and publicly rejected the authoritarian role of the middle-class political elite, making him especially poplular among Rastafarians in Jamaica with whom he shared his vast knowledge of African history. When the Jamaican government banned Rodney in October 1968 from ever returning to the country, riots broke out because of his advocacy for the working poor in that country, eventually claiming the lives of several people and causing millions of dollars in damages. These riots, which started on October 16, 1968, are now known as the Rodney Riots, and they triggered an increase in political awareness across the Caribbean. This is documented in his book, The groundings with my brothers.

Walter Rodney is a personal hero of mine. I always said that eventually I would do a doc on him but I'm glad that Chung beat me to the punch. Come out and support it if you can.

For more info on Walter Rodney, go to the website for The Guyana and Caribbean Political & Cultural Center for Popular Education website or to Wikipedia, from which I compiled many of the facts above.

(this is also posted on Shadow And Act's website)

trailer - W.A.R. Stories: Walter Anthony Rodney doc

Holiday season gifts for the Black film lover

In my quest to figure out good Xmas and Kwanzaa gifts for my people this year, I realized we always recommend movies, DVD's and VODs, but I've seldom read about good books here on S&A. So, I've compile a great list for of Black cinephile-based books for the filmgoing audience. Some you’re definitely familiar with, others maybe not, but nonetheless here it is:

Donald Bogle’s books

I’ve been reading Bogle's books for 20 years now, so considering I’m just on the precipice of my (eek!) mid-30’s, that’s saying a lot of the amount of Black film knowledge that he’s imparted to the masses for decades.

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks