I Call Oscar

So my best friend always talks about me because she thinks that I don’t support black movies. When I was in high school, I up and walked out of a few black movies that were so bad I felt like just sitting in the theater I was setting us back further than Diddy’s gumline.

It’s not that I don’t support black movies, it’s just I refuse to support those that shall remain nameless (Norbit) because I know we are capable of more than that. When a black movie of quality, like The Great Debaters is released, most of the time I have to get my tickets early because opening night it’s guaranteed to sell out…even if the movie doesn’t make a whole lot at the box office.

We will go and see a quality black movie just as quickly as we will see a movie with Madea in it. The only difference is, someone like Monique is going to pop in a movie more than someone like Journee Smollet may due to a little thing I am hoping Journee keeps that I think “Mr. Snakes on a Plane” Samuel L. Jackson lost a long time ago….dignity. (Sigh….he was so promising when he was good ole Gator in Jungle Fever smoking up his Momma and the Good Reverend Doctors tv).

Anyways….my point is, that while I am not looking forward to any upcoming movies featuring Katt Williams, I am looking forward to Jamie Foxx’s new movie The Soloist which is still filming.

You may have already seen the pictures of Jaime looking like he should be selling tube socks and sunflower seeds on 79th and Stony Island already but was unsure why.

Jaime will be portraying Nathaniel Ayers, a classically trained musician that ended up homeless due to schizophrenia.

After his portrayal of Ray Charles, I’m calling Oscar Number 2. Click here for a series of 5 interviews with Nathaniel Ayers and journalist Steve Lopez who will be played in the film by Robert Downey Jr.