black comedies

Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part One)

cultfilmalley February 16, 2021 0

*contains spoilers and strong course language “My show is about racial healing,” says actor Damon Wayons (1960-) in Spike Lee’s (1957-) movie Bamboozled (2000). This film, which was dismissed back when it was first released, is now regarded as some sort of cult film. It hints at the possibility that you can be white on…

The Cult of Playwright Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane

cultfilmalley January 25, 2021 0

*contains spoilers The British playwright Joe Orton (1933-1967 murdered) had the shortest of careers in the mid-1960s before his long-time lover Kenneth Halliwell (1926-67 sleeping pill overdose) hit him nine times on the forehead with a hammer in their London bedsit and then committed suicide. It is a part of the legend of Orton that…