The Wiz & Fabulous Black Movies We Love with Rachel Hall

Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 7:16 a.m.

b'Ease on Down the Road. The Wiz photo courtesy of Motown Productions.
As Black History Month wraps up, we\\u2019re celebrating our favorite films featuring Black actors, writers and directors we can\\u2019t get enough of. Some of the films are mainstream Hollywood but it\\u2019s also the B movies and blacksploitation films that hold a special place in our hearts.

Today comedian Rachel Hall, creator and host of the Hood Novel Book Club Podcast, joins us to celebrate the Black films we love.

Listen as we chat about films like the Wiz, the movie adaptation of Charlie Small\\u2019s Broadway musical that features a grown up Diana Ross playing a little girl.

RACHEL HALL:
https://www.instagram.com/rachelhallisfunny

HOOD NOVEL BOOK CLUB PODCAST:
https://apple.co/3H08vU9

\\u27a4 Blackula\\u2019s first meal dining on a gay couple.

\\u27a4 Rudy Ray Moore\\u2019s movies as Dolemite.

\\u27a4 Eartha Kitt\\u2019s most hilarious film role in Eddie Murphy\\u2019s Boomerang.

\\u27a4 How the Color Purple became a camp classic.

\\u27a4 The Fat Boys in Disorderlies, All of Tyler Perry\\u2019s films

\\u27a4 How movies Breakin and Flashdance captured the spirit from the 80s that great art could break down any barrier.

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