Hmmm. I dunno. But yall know I love The Cheadle. Good to know he's spreading out. From Black Talent News:Don Cheadle is on-board to produce a TV series based on "Crash," the 2004 film which picked up three Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best
Kerry Washington is 31.Let's try to forget about "I Think I Love My Wife", "She Hate Me" and "Little Man", all of which she managed to manouver through unscathed. Here is Kerry contributing good to the world with a reading of an 1851 speech by Sojourner
Whenever Alfred Hitchcock indulged his intense interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, as he did to greater and lesser degrees in many of his films, it always promised a truly bizarre experience. It's thus no surprise that Marnie, one of his strangest films,
Red River is a sweeping Western epic from Howard Hawks, a towering yarn spanning 14 years, with a thousand-mile cattle drive at its center. It's a Western on a grand scale, and Hawks can't always balance the story's epic dimensions with the human conflicts
Now it all makes sense...this sounds much more plausible than the "we decided to remain friends" story. I try not to gossip too much here, but I am strangely and mildly fascinated with Eddie Murphy's shenanigans. From Celebitchy via Bossip:We’ve heard
Here's some weekend box office tallies (thanks, Sergio!):WEEKEND BOX OFFICEJanuary 25–27, 2008 Studio Estimates1) Meet the Spartans Fox $18,725,0002) Rambo LGF $18,150,0003) 27 Dresses Fox $13,600,000 Total: $45,347,0004) Cloverfield Par. $12,700,000
I will be posting a bit about this gent this week....he was in an interesting film that I saw this summer called the Mannsfield 12. I will be talking about that film this week along with a film that he directed called Section 8. First up is a short interview.
The first scene of Kill, Baby... Kill! is as powerful, visceral, and over-the-top as its title might suggest. The film opens abruptly, as though in the middle of a scene, with a woman running away from a large castle, screaming "No! No!" She runs towards
From Black Talent News:50 Cent announced at the Sundance Film Festival that he is forming a production company with longtime manager Chris Lighty and producer Randell Emmett ("Shottas," "Home of the Brave," "Righteous Kill") to produce indie films. He
Aaannnndd we're back! hahaMissed you guys.I now know I'm hopelessly addicted to the blogosphere, no point in denying it. It's only been a few days and it seems like weeks!My posting is still gonna be a bit spotty this week due to my move....bear with
Michael Clayton is a crisp, smart, economical legal thriller that is perhaps more than a little predictable in the machinations of its plot, but it makes up for its small bows to genre conventions in other areas. Most notably, the film is first and foremost
Paris vu par... is a portmanteau film from 1965, part of a brief vogue for such multi-director compilations in the 60s. Anyone who's made an attempt to go through the oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard, in particular, will certainly have encountered their fair
Stereo is an early student film project from David Cronenberg, an hour-long feature made almost entirely on his own, on such a shoestring budget that he decided to entirely forgo sound recording. The result is a film that, even in its extreme minimalism
The mood of Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring is best encapsulated in a line delivered towards the end of the film by a disillusioned old salaryman in a bar. "I've worked 31 long years," he says, "to find that life is just an empty dream." This melancholy
