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Diary of A Mad Black Woman (2005) was directed by Darren Grant and written by Tyler Perry. Grant is a 1995 graduate of California State University Northridge with a B.A. in Film Production. He also...
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Iconic Play For Colored Girls Adapted for the Screen
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf was a play that was first performed in California in 1975. It was written by Ntozake Shange and was essentially a collection of 20...
View ArticleHow Tyler Perry Handles For Colored Girls
A woman renamed Ntozake Shange wrote a shout-out from Berkeley to black women the world over, in 1974 for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow Is enuf was born. We bought it. We...
View ArticleMovie Review: For Colored Girls
Somewhere around the middle of the new film For Colored Girls, a character muses that to be sorrowful and colored in the modern world is a state of redundancy for women. It’s a rather provocative...
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Movie Review: For Colored Girls for All Girls
Director Tyler Perry is well known for his use of domestic drama within African American communities. In his sitcom Meet the Browns, he’s covered subjects ranging from drugs to social prejudice, so...
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Movie Preview: April 2011
Summer’s finally right around the corner and that means lots and lots of the usual multiplex fanfare. With March coming to a close with quite the whimper, it looks like April is here to pick up the...
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Blu-ray Review: N-Secure
David Alan Washington (Cordell Moore) has it all: money, power, and a beautiful young fiancée (Essence Atkins) with whom he is ready to start a new life with. Sadly, though, Davis is also a big control...
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Movie Review: The Help
I’m pretty sure I first peeped the trailer for The Help when I went to see Tyler Perry’s for colored girls and decided at Viola Davis that I was going to see it. (She is in my pantheon of diva...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Alex Cross
James Patterson’s series of Alex Cross novels are immensely popular. Not only have the books sold millions of copies, but they have now spawned two different film series. First, we were treated to...
View ArticleMovie Reviews: Why Did I Get Married Too? and Green Zone
‘ZONING’ OUT Oscar winner Matt Damon consistently impresses with nuanced, intelligent performances, even when the material declines to offer any real challenge to his gifts as an actor. Case in point:...
View ArticleMovie Review: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Diary of A Mad Black Woman (2005) was directed by Darren Grant and written by Tyler Perry. Grant is a 1995 graduate of California State University Northridge with a B.A. in Film Production. He also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Iconic Play For Colored Girls Adapted for the Screen
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf was a play that was first performed in California in 1975. It was written by Ntozake Shange and was essentially a collection of 20...
View ArticleHow Tyler Perry Handles For Colored Girls
A woman renamed Ntozake Shange wrote a shout-out from Berkeley to black women the world over, in 1974 for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow Is enuf was born. We bought it. We...
View ArticleMovie Review: For Colored Girls
Somewhere around the middle of the new film For Colored Girls, a character muses that to be sorrowful and colored in the modern world is a state of redundancy for women. It’s a rather provocative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movie Review: For Colored Girls for All Girls
Director Tyler Perry is well known for his use of domestic drama within African American communities. In his sitcom Meet the Browns, he’s covered subjects ranging from drugs to social prejudice, so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movie Preview: April 2011
Summer’s finally right around the corner and that means lots and lots of the usual multiplex fanfare. With March coming to a close with quite the whimper, it looks like April is here to pick up the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-ray Review: N-Secure
David Alan Washington (Cordell Moore) has it all: money, power, and a beautiful young fiancée (Essence Atkins) with whom he is ready to start a new life with. Sadly, though, Davis is also a big control...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movie Review: The Help
I’m pretty sure I first peeped the trailer for The Help when I went to see Tyler Perry’s for colored girls and decided at Viola Davis that I was going to see it. (She is in my pantheon of diva...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Alex Cross
James Patterson’s series of Alex Cross novels are immensely popular. Not only have the books sold millions of copies, but they have now spawned two different film series. First, we were treated to...
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