Tag: Lena Horne

4K UHD Review: The Wiz (Criterion Collection)

June 22, 2025

The 1975 Broadway debut of The Wiz—an African American retelling of the classic children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum—was a huge hit. Starring seventeen-year-old Stephanie Mills as Dorothy, who was a tiny teenager with a…

Stormy Weather (Blu-ray)

March 18, 2015

In the 1930’s and ‘40s, when the South was segregated and racism was an accepted practice, most black entertainers were pigeonholed into small, cartoonish roles in comedies and musicals. All black films were a rarity, but two musicals—MGM’s Cabin in…