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Every now and then, Hollywood throws up some truly extraordinary women... women who combine style, intelligence and that rarest of rare characteristics - the ability to look sensual without the slightest effort.

However the fact Halle Berry's fancy Hollywood Hills mansion needs to fixed-up could be a blessing in disguise for the Catwoman star.

African American musicians and performers have had an enormous influence on film and television music over the last seventy-five years.

He may not have, or necessarily want , studio backing, but that hasn't stopped Spike Lee from making the kinds of movies he cares about.

Spike Lee shot his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It , over 12 days in 1986.

Last August, just five months shy of the world premiere of his latest film, Red Hook Summer , Spike Lee belatedly discovered its musical centerpiece.

The Times Magazine's profile of George Lucas is very interesting, particularly in its description of how his long-term girlfriend, Mellody Hobson, or as Al Sharpton calls her, "black America's business princess," has transmitted Lucas's dedication to racial equality and channeled it more directly into politics, whether calling Obama a Jedi or ... (more)

There have been many black films that inspire, enrage, encourage and invigorate.