"Dynamic...Gripping...Hilarious"

Struggling fashion designer Mary Oyenokwe and arrogant businessman Akin Cole are handed the wrong phones after they collide and drop their belongings at the airport. What follows after is a serious of unfortunate events that leads to a budding romance. 

This is absolutely my favorite movie of the 2000's. The music also makes the film extra special, and the theme song "God has a plan" by TRUTH Ogunlade is phenomenal!

*watch on Xumo Play

"Classic....Sassy....Compelling.....

Interlocking stories"

The man behind this movie is quite a legend in my eyes  because he created something that will forever live in my subconscious. This coming-of-age story  is just what I needed during a time of darkness in this country.  It was 2020 when I discovered that Amazon made it available for viewing. 

The soundtrack is original and truly transports you to another time. It sets the tone for every scene with such intention that you don’t just watch the story unfold—you feel it in your soul.   

*watch on Amazon

"Coming of Age...Timeless Adventurous...Relatable.." 

I recently discovered this movie and was so filled with joy after watching it. Finally, a movie that actually depicts the accurate mother-daughter dynamic among Black women.

 Once I learned that Julie Dash was responsible for the restoration of this film, its now a classic in my book. 

*watch on Amazon

"Out of this World..Timeless..Epic..." 

a 2012 American documentary film directed by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett. The documentary is about the 1970s Detroit rock band Death and their new-found popularity decades after the group recorded their music.

As a Detroiter, I am flabbergasted that I did not know about this band until now. But knowing my hometown, they were too controversial for the word about them to spread during the cherished Motown Era. 

AND, I could write a book about how culturally black folks keep all the important things in the attic- to be discovered decades later. 

*watch on Amazon

"Nostalgic...Engrossing...Dramatic"

The show depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and the early days of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The show's title refers to Halt and Catch Fire (HCF), an idiom for computer machine code instructions. 

Detroit was seriously tech based in the 80's, so when this show came out I was hooked. What I loved most was the writing. Their writer's room had to be filled with geniuses.  

*watch on Amazon

"Emotional...Astonishing...Harrowing"

Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on a true story about three Aboriginal girls who escaped from a settlement in Western Australia in 1931 and journeyed home by following the rabbit-proof fence. The film is a dramatization of their 1,600 km trek and is based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara, whose mother, Molly Craig, was one of the girls. The story highlights the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, a policy known as the Stolen Generations. 

When I was teaching seventh grade social studies, we covered Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. So, I found a movie that would accurately depict the culture for each region so they could understand that we all are more alike than we are different. 

*watch free on Pluto

"Distressing...Inspiring...Transformative"

Set in the Union of South Africa during World War II and the years immediately afterwards, the film centers on the life of Peter "PK" Keith, an Anglo-South African boy raised in the prelude to apartheid, and his conflicted relationships with German pianist Karl "Doc" von Vollensteen, Coloured boxing coach Geel Piet and Afrikaner romantic interest Maria Marais.

This is the type of movie I could only watch once in my lifetime. Its necessary to see, but it will test your tolerance limit. 

*watch on AppleTv