First off I am an admirer of Tyler Perry and most of his works, so it is hard for me to "smack him down" but give me a moment I might come around. Now on to what you came here for
Tyler Perry the actor has the proven ability to draw an audience and
Read more…Just saw it last night and enjoyed it. Reminded me (in a good way) of the classic Shaw Bros stuff - Venoms movies and Flying Guillotine. There was a heck of a lot of earnest creativity up on on the screen, from the pallette daggers of the Black Widow
Read more…My previous post said that it was important to writers - here is the reason why I said it
Kerry Williamson prior to getting his big screen play beak worked as the assistant to the director on Collateral Damage (Arnold Schwarzenegger) you know the Arno
An open letter to Rob Cohen seemingly an advocate for African American in Hollywood - since 1975
Let me be honest Mr. Cohen you can listen to Jazz, and Hip Hop all day it does not mean that you know Black people or what is entertaining to or for them.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tyler Perry is one of the highest-earning African-American male movie stars working today, and that's apparently the only reason anyone thought it would be a good idea to cast him in a rebooted series b
Read more…Whenever I hear that a movie is “mind-bending!” or some such hype, I am always amazed at how apparently easy it is to bend some people’s minds. Sometimes this is due to the “challenging” nature of the material, but is it challenging because it is wel
After a short, but well-deserved break between 2010’s “Unstoppable” and this past February’s “Safe House,” actor Denzel Washington is back with the force you’d expect from a man who once yelled King Kong “ain’t having sh*t on me” during a heated ex
Read more…There is an arc to Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy. In the first movie, the theme was second chances: Bruce Wayne wanted to avenge his parent’s murder but ends up getting his second chance by realizing his father’s dream of saving Gotham City. In
Saw it yesterday in London at an IMAX cinema. Wont give anything away, or do any spoilers. (And whilst I comment below on the film, all the news over here in England has concentrated on the horrors of what happened in Colorado, so my thoughts have be
Read more…This movie has been making the rounds for a couple of weeks now. Has anyone seen it yet? If you have post something. It came to my town this weekend and i'm going to see it monday. I'll let you know what i think about it.
Read more…Lead sentence 1: “It’s surprising more guys don’t watch soap operas (or openly admit to it) because soaps and comics use a lot of the same tropes—nobody ever really dies, people don’t know they have children (or parents)…
Lead sentence 2: “How many t
Read more…Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sounds like a skit from Saturday Night Live. The regulars come out, talking about how afraid they are to go out at night and the host for the week (if a guy, of course) comes out of the shadows wearing a stovepipe hat
The Frog Prince
Princess Iria's search to find prince charming will enchant and delight in this highly entertaining modern animated feature of the classic tale the princess and the frog.
Directed by: Gaiam
Runtime: 39 minutes
Release year: 2009
Ridley Scott said his new film Prometheus was not a prequel to Alien but it did contain “strands of Alien DNA.” He was being cute (for reasons that would be a spoiler) but the new film is very much a prequel. In fact, the story seems to be framed aro
Can you believe the original Men in Black was released in 1997? For those of us not familiar with the graphic novel on which it was based we had no idea what we were in for other than it was a movie about secret agents who policed extraterrestrial ac
It could be argued there’d be no Edward Cullen, no Bill Compton, Eric Northman or Lestat de Lioncourt without Barnabas Collins.
Vampires were always the “sexiest” monsters: their interaction with you is the most intimate (okay, a werewolf ripping out
"A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. "
I liked this one. It was packed with effects and it met my Black person survival requirement.
If you want to see s
Read more…The folks at Marvel have had a better run with their moves than their counterparts at DC. With the exception of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies and possibly
Watchmen,
DC’s efforts have been middling (RED) to underwhelming (Green Lantern). Marvel’s
Not part two either.
I'm sorry.
I come through without giving the greetings.
Peace squad. Or like my bruhva Ed Uzzle taught me UDO!
But yeah man, who saw Hunger Games and dug it?
I be missing y'all man.
Talkin isht on the internet is mad fun.
Read more…What do you call a movie with no high-speed car chases, no gross-out humor, and no list of special effects people greater than the capacity of the theater showing it?
A real movie for adults.
Finally.
And a pretty good one.
The first distinct sound y
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