Author Archives: Blerd Beats

Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Tales from the Hood (1995)

My wife put me onto Mandella Eskia/BlackZeusX’s So Imagine series, which reminds me of Honest Trailers but unapologetically Black. When she alerted me that Eskia had posted a video for Rusty Cundieff’s Tales from the Hood, I remembered we had watched that film earlier in the year during our family Black Pantheon viewings. Yet afterContinue reading “Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Tales from the Hood (1995)”

Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Boyz n the Hood (1991)

A full generation before anyone coined the concept of “toxic masculinity,” there was John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood. Yes, I could write about how Boyz n the Hood illustrates the realities of gang violence as this film is part of the Black Pantheon because the scene where Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) yells “RICKY!” in theContinue reading “Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Boyz n the Hood (1991)”

Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Eve’s Bayou (1997)

I am only two entries into the Black Pantheon, and I am already realizing that among the movies I have seen before, I remember little about them. I remembered practically NOTHING about Eve’s Bayou, one of my wife’s all-time favorite movies, so I was in for a treat. Jurnee Smollett’s Eve Batiste is the best child actingContinue reading “Silver Screenings—The Black Pantheon: Eve’s Bayou (1997)”