October 23, 2009, - 12:37 pm
Weekend Box Office: “Good Hair’s” Racism, “Cirque du Freak: Vampire’s Asst,” Boring “Amelia,” “Astro Boy”
None of the new movie releases, this weekend, are particular scintillating, but the best of the bunch is a creepy vampire movie aimed at teen and 20-something guys.
* “Good Hair“: This Chris Rock documentary about Black American women’s obsession with hair–relaxers and weaves above all else in their lives–is entertaining, funny, and weird (though growing up and living in a Black community most of my life, I didn’t learn anything new). But then it devolves into an Al Sharpton diatribe on how Asian-Americans and White people are racist because they dominate and own the majority of the Black haircare industry. And, I guess, it’s wrong that Indians make a lot of money off of selling Blacks hair extensions because, hey, it’s just a formality to Sharpton that most of that hair comes from India, as the movie shows in detail.
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