The year 2012 brought an eclectic mix of films from both the independent and mainstream worlds. Here are Filmclique’s top headlines from 2012:
* Millions of White People Voluntarily Watch A Black Slave Movie (pictured above)
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* Three Black Women Get Along Well Enough To Form a Girl Group
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* Employed Black Man Turns Himself In For A Crime He Committed
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* Average Black Man Beats Top White Man in Sports
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* 55 Year-Old Mookie Delivers His 100,000th Pizza
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* Ghetto Black Woman Takes In Wealthy White Family
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* Infamous Female Impersonator Does Not Impersonate Said Ghetto Black Woman
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* Little Black Girl Loved Dearly Despite Not Combing Her Hair
Below are some notable releases of 2012 (including the movies above). Of course this list isn’t comprehensive, so feel free to add more titles or headlines in the comments.
Flight (Robert Zemeckis)
Sparkle (Salim Akil)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Like Water (Pablo Croce)
Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee)
Madea’s Witness Protection (Tyler Perry)
Alex Cross (Rob Cohen) and Good Deeds (Tyler Perry)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Behn Zeitlin)
Woman Thou Art Loosed (Neema Barnette)
The House I Live In (Eugene Jarecki)
Restless City (Andrew Dosunmu)
Think Like a Man (Tim Story)
Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay)
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels)
Red Tails (Anthony Hemingway)
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap (Ice T)
Yelling to the Sky (Victoria Mahoney)
Men in Black III (Barry Sonnenfeld)
Happy New Year to all and Best Wishes for 2013, from FilmClique!
