The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that if you want to have a film about minorities, there need to be white actors in the lead roles. Just look at the current box office success The Help—Emma ...
"John's first language was the moving image. He talked in movie images," Laurence Fishburne says of John Singleton, who died April 28 at age 51 following a stroke. By Laurence Fishburne, as told to ...
With "Boyz n the Hood," he broke down barriers for black filmmakers with Oscar nominations, commercial success, and the creation of an entirely new genre. Twenty-eight years ago, John Singleton’s ...