Posts Tagged With Red Tails
Thursday, January 26, 2012 / 6:00 am
This Job Is a Solid Killer
African Americans in wartime, as depicted on stage and screen and in the funny papers.
by Gary Phillips
Tags: race | Red Tails | movies | stage | comics
This past weekend I was watching the big budget Captain America: The First Avenger on our newish flat screen TV. Set in World War II, I’d seen it in its 3D glory at the cineplex last year, but enjoyed the movie so much I rented it on DVD. For years we’d had this Sony Trinatronic. That much used machine finally gave up the ghost a few months ago, and a trip to the Best Buy in Culver City yielded the bad boy we got now, a Samsung LCD 40-incher. Not only does it deliver a bigger, crisper picture, it’s less than half the weight of the Sony, reminding me just how far we’ve advanced technology-wise.
