Why You Need to See Red Tails THIS Weekend!

And now a break from your regularly scheduled hair and fashion programming ...

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with hair or fashion, but everything to do with supporting Black cinema.

Seriously, go, no, RUN and see Red Tails this weekend!

Just came back from seeing it while on date night with the hubs. And can I say that we LOVED it! I walked in the theatre hoping -- no praying-- that it would be packed. And it was! We walked in right as it started and could barely find a seat-- a good thing.The theatre was diverse -- 50/50. We showed up and showed out, ya'll.

Felt proud to represent in a good way.

Vote With Your Movie DollarsYou know how we hate it when folks appoint us as the spokesperson for the Black race? Well, we speak loudly, HairNistas, when it comes to what we support with our film dollars. Hollywood takes what sells and copies the hell out of it.

Nothing against Tyler Perry, but this is why he has 20 billion Madea-type movies -- because audiences go to see them and they are clear moneymakers. It also works the reverse: If Hollywood greenlights a "black" film of certain genre that does poorly, you won't see too many other movies like it.

Bravery in Battle
Stories like Red Tails, which tell the story of the first all-African American aerial combat in WWII that integrated the military, often don't make it off the production floor. Red Tails almost didn't. Star Wars' director George Lucas undertook the project nearly 20 years ago, bankrolling the production and distribution of the movie for nearly $60 million because no one in Hollywood would touch it.

It's a tough sell in Hollywood. Critics have largely panned the movie.

Black comedies, gangsta flicks and the like get the Hollywood green light all day long. Lord knows I've wasted enough money on flicks that don't uplift us. But make a flick that actually teaches something? Not even a white man in Hollywood can get it on the movie screen.

Let's prove Hollywood wrong.

This weekend, instead of buying a $40 jar of curling creme or a $20 bottle of shampoo, spend that money and support Red Tails. Attendance during a movie's first week is absolutely critical.

Why You Need Not To Buy Hair Care Products This Weekend and Go See Red Tails
If war/historical movies aren't your thing, hell, go see it just to see the man candy -- Terence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nate Parks, rapper Method Man and a cast of other handsome, but largely unknown, actors.

That curling creme will be around to purchase next weekend. If Red Tails doesn't do good its first weekend, many other movies like it, won't. 

Are you going to see Red Tails this weekend?