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FIRST SUNDAY |
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First Sunday will make you laugh but it won’t make you holler. It will make you smile but it won’t make you scream with laughter...  |
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THE GREAT DEBATERS |
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Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey and a fantastic ensemble conjures up social change and the resistance to it in this movie inspired,... |
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I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE |
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Chris Rock is definitely a bolt of thunder doing stand-up. He carved a space for himself with an appeal similar to Richard Pryor’s... |
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ZODIAC (R) |
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From the late '60s to the early '80s, a serial killer
terrorizes the Bay Area, teasing and manipulating the press and police
with cryptic, coded
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MY BROTHER from Codeblack Entertainment |
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Isaiah (Nashawn Kearse) is tired. He is tired of being broke. His part-time
pursuit at being a stand-up comic is making audiences tired... |
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300 from Warner Bros. Pictures |
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300 is a major leap in storytelling so involved in itself that it draws you in from start to finish. The arrows fly, the spears are ever working... |
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BLACK SNAKE MOAN |
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Black Snake Moan is a film that everyone will want to see at some point in their
life, especially if you want to see Christina... |
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THE 79th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS |
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If you consider yourself a film fan, this years Academy Awards should have rewarded you pretty well. Yeah, yeah, some ... |
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SMOKIN' ACES (R)
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Ever since its bloody, foot massaging inception, "Pulp Fiction" has
been one of the most poorly and stylistically... |
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DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS (PG-13) |
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"Tyler Perry is the black director of the moment." Or words to that
effect were said by my screening partner
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THE HITCHER
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How would mother earth advance if people did not meet new people? Where would society be if we did not offer a helping hand... |
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STOMP THE YARD
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When the lights went down and “Stomp The Yard” began, I felt inspired, and when the lights came up, I felt even better.” ... |
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DREAMGIRLS (PG-13)
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My name is Edwardo and I'm a "Dreamgirls"-aholic. Allow me to introduce you to the movie of the year... |
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FREEDOM WRITERS |
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“Freedom Writers,” a compelling tale of passion, stars two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don’t Cry) ... |
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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (R) |
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Arriving in Uganda as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed volunteer doctor, adventure-seeking Scotsman... |
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THE DEPARTED (R) |
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Scorsese and gangsters seem to go together like Republicans and scandal, Anna Nicole and inappropriate... |
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THE GOOD SHEPHERD (R) |
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In 1961, America was on the brink of World War III and Kennedy's failed Bay of Pigs operation to invade Cuba lef... |
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Dance, Music and lots of Entertaining Fun – IdleWild! |
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Jitterbugging and Lindy-Hopping into theaters on August 25th is the ‘infused with Greatness’ Universal Pictures & HBO Films ... |
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The Gore Papers: Of Tempest, Terrors ,Terrain and Tipper |
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Truth is Gore is consistent. When Al Gore takes to the podium today, as in the past he persists in using language, metaphors.... |
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MID SPRING REVIEW |
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Box office be damned! This is shaping up to be a great year for movies, if you ask me. Here are some more that may not make ... |
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INSIDE MAN (R) |
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Every once in a while, in Hollywood, you catch a glimmer, a faint glimpse at how good the world (re: entertainment world) could be.... |
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BASIC INSTINCT 2 (R) |
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Remember where you were when you first saw Sharon Stone cross her legs in the interrogation room for Michael Douglas?.... |
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THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (R) |
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Full disclosure: I HATE smoking. Not only does it smell bad, invade my
privacy to breathe free, but also I'm allergic to it (lucky for me,
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V FOR VENDETTA |
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You may not be able to grasp the full meaning of a vendetta until you’ve experienced the screen version of V for Vendetta. Warner Bros
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FAILURE TO LAUNCH |
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Paramount Pictures romantic comedy “Failure to Launch” unexpectedly took the box office by storm, coming in at number 1 with.... |
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FIND ME GUILTY (R) |
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Remember when Vin Diesel was an ACTOR? Don't worry, I do. For every "The Pacifier" and "A Man Apart," he's had�well, just
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DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY (R) |
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"I'm rich, biotch!" - Dave's clarion call for entertainment that has
run at the end of his record-breaking Comedy Central
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16 BLOCKS (PG-13) |
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"I was trying to do a good thing." So says on-the-job boozer of a cop
Jack Mosley (Willis), a man depreciating in real time
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CRASH (R) |
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"In LA, nobody touches you… We miss that touch so much, we crash into each other just so we can feel something." Don't I know it. Sprawling, diverse...... |
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The History Channel(R) Awards Grant |
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"Looking for Angola," a project sponsored by The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), received a $10,000.... |
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KING KONG (PG-13) |
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Set in Depression-era New York, megalomaniacal "preening self-promoter" movie director Carl Denham (Black) is so desperate ... |
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (PG-13) |
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Separated from her sister and sold into slavery away from her fishing village, young Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is groomed to ... |
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IS
HBO
PREDICTABLE?
by Scott D. Southard
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What Lost could teach HBO |
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Yes, I, like millions of other Americans, sat around the TV on Sundays and watched what HBO ... |
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Queens Reigns Supreme |
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Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story... |
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ROLL BOUNCE (PG-13) |
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Raise your hand if you remember the '70s! Yeah, neither do I. Sure,
I joined the party only halfway through, but
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LORD OF WAR (R) |
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There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's
one firearm for every twelve people on the planet
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RED EYE (PG-13) |
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Thrillers are hard. I reflected upon that fact as I struggled to write one myself this week. They're a time-honored genre in
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A New Face for “Four Brothers” of Today |
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In theaters nationwide on Friday, 8/12th is “Four Brothers” a film that brings four adopted brothers of two ethnicities (Black and White) together
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HUSTLE & FLOW (R) |
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Several eyebrows were raised at Sundance this year when Paramount
swooped out of the sky to buy Craig Brewer's John Singleton-financed feature
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WEDDING CRASHERS (R) |
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Remember the R-rated sex comedy? Yeah, neither do I. You'll have to go
almost back to the "American Pie" series to see evidence of
successful,
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THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (PG-13) |
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Is it the height of parental irresponsibility to let a little black
boy cavort around with a toy orange car sporting a Confederate... |
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STAR WARS – Return of the Sith |
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THIS STAR WARS IS THE BEST SINCE “RETURN OF THE JEDI”, and “THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.” ...
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BEAUTY SHOP (PG-13) |
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Set in my FAVORITE city of Atlanta, "Beauty Shop" follows the trials and travails of beautician extraordinaire ... |
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SIN CITY (R) |
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Ever been to Sin City? No, not the freshly opened Robert Rodriguez
joint which is a frame for frame adaptation
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Tyler Perry’s: “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” |
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Tyler Perry’s hysterically witty Play turned Movie “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” will burst into theaters nationwide on ... |
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ARE WE THERE YET? |
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When I first heard about this film, I was thinking – is that the same Ice Cube that welcomed us to his gangsta nation? ... |
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COACH CARTER |
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Opening in theaters on Friday, January 14th is a phenomenal film - “Coach Carter”, based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter... |
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HOTEL RWANDA |
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First of all, I find the title not appropriate for the movie although it took place in Rwanda - the actual hotel name was the “Hotel Mille Collines”... |
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BLADE - TRINITY |
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With the BCS standings screwed up once again, the Army finally getting called out by the Washington Post for “friendlies” against Pat Tillman, and ... |
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FADE TO BLACK (R) |
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Under the Paramount Classics banner, "Fade to Black" unspooled before me as I remembered Jay-Z's previous documentary "classic," an execrable piece ... |
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RAY (PG-13) |
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How do you separate the music from the man? For those who've been living on the International Space Station for the last three months, "Ray" is the biopic of... |
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HERO (PG-13) |
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Love – even puppy love – is a powerful thing. For those of you who have been reading THE REEL DEAL for the past four years, you all know that THE REEL DEAL... |
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ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (PG-13) |
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Love – even puppy love – is a powerful thing. For those of you who have been reading THE REEL DEAL for the past four years, you all know that THE REEL DEAL... |
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COLLATERAL (R) |
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LA gets a bad rap. I know because 1.) I live here and 2.) I'm one of those rapping on it. For a city cursed with a smog-soaked, gridlocked, pretentiously preening... |
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