#RunTheCulture Great black movie dads are important. Black fatherhood is one of the most powerful images in The Culture and is underrepresented in mainstream media. It is often up to our creators to shine the proper light on black men being the strong role models they most often are. We’ve created a list of some…
#RunTheCulture What’s better than a movie with a strong black female lead? A film with four strong black female leads. Enter the OG black romantic drama and official #CultureClassic Waiting to Exhale. Waiting to Exhale released in 1995 and starred Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon. The women played a quartet of friends…
#RunTheCulture Black animated films are almost non-existent in “traditional” Hollywood. Black hair is completely misunderstood in “traditional” Hollywood (and society at large). So the odds of a children’s picture book celebrating black hair being turned into an animated short are slim-to-none. At that short film then being nominated for an Oscar? Impossible. Meet the impossible.…
#RunTheCulture The romantic dramedy might be the most successful genre in all of black cinema, and the late 90’s and early 00’s was arguably the genre’s heyday with star studded films dropping seemingly every other month. And for today’s #CultureClassic we shoot our shot with one of the best of that time, Love & Basketball.…
#RunTheCulture Us is another hit film for The Culture. The second flick both written and directed by Jordan Peele opened as the #1 movie in America and in two weeks broke the $100 million dollar box office mark. The trippy horror film stars Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke as husband and wife trying to protect…
This week in #CultureClassics we take a dive into one of The Culture’s best romantic comedies, Boomerang.
#RunTheCulture We kick off 2019 by looking at THE biggest film of 2018. One of those instant #CultreClassics, Black Panther. In the Spring of 2018 a different kind of user hero flick launched and changed the game forever. For us, by us, Black Panther, the story of an African Prince turned king trying to find…
In this installment of #CultureClassics we’re getting you in the holiday mood with one of the greatest black Christmas movies of all-time, The Wiz. The Wiz is a musical adventure fantasy film produced by music mogul Barry Gordy and his Motown Productions, and released by Universal Pictures on October 24, 1978. A reimagining…
On this Thanksgiving day we had to hit you with one of the best #CultureClassics to watch with your family that reps The Culture and the holiday, Soul Food. The name alone makes Soul Food theideal flick for Thanksgiving family viewing, but what makes it a #CultureClassic is that it’s a very…
Recently Rebel Wilson falsely claimed to be the first plus-size actress to star as the lead in a romantic comedy. Today we set the record straight and remind her and the world that our creators for The Culture have been there done that with the #CultureClassic Just Wright. Just Wright is a romantic…
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