Just Another Standard Popcorn Flick In Babylon A.D.

In the future world of Babylon A.D., Vin Diesel is Toorop, a mercenary hired by an old ally, Gorsky (Gerard Depardieu) to transport a young girl named Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) from Eastern Europe to New York City. In the violent, dystopic world which is the future, she needs someone with Toorop's skills as a smuggler. Along with Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), the trio must traverse

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The Accidental Husband

PG-13|1 hr 30 mins|Romantic Comedy
When a talk-radio host advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.
Synopsis:
Radio sensation Dr. Emma Lloyd and her publisher/fiancé Michael thought getting a license to wed in New York would be easier than getting a driver’s license. After all, there’s no tests,written or blood; they were both over 18, and they weren’t related. All they needed to do was show up together at city hall, fork over the fee, and be done with it. Right? Wrong, because Emma’s already married! Oops. Can someone accidentally forget they have a husband? Certainly not the perfectly practical, never-make-a-misstep Dr. Emma Lloyd, a.k.a. "The Love Doctor." Certainly not New York’s very own guru of relationships, and author of the hot self-help book, R.E.A.L Love. But when Emma carelessly dispenses some of her "chicken soup for the heart" over the Big Apple’s airwaves, and a faithful listener takes her advice, Fireman Patrick Sullivan suddenly has his love life extinguished. Now Patrick wants to get even, and after reading about the good doctor’s impending nuptials in the newspaper, he puts together the perfect recipe for sweet revenge: Just take one know-it-all talk show host, one angry New York City fireman, one computer whiz who can hack into city hall, and presto! Emma can’t get married because she already is;to Patrick!

Director: Griffin Dunne
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane, Justina Machado

Movie Trailer The Accidental Husband

Disaster Movie

PG-13|1 hr 30 mins|Comedy Movie
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of 20-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
Synopsis:
One fateful night, a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event--asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works--hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, Ike Barinholtz

Movie Trailer Disaster Movie

Get Ready To Spare A Real Action Flick

Sometimes we need an alternate for many CGI and special effects fully loaded flicks that we’ve seen over the summer, and sometimes those necessities can be fulfilled by some Asian film releases. Just like this refreshing South Korean action flick “Spare”, which has promised not only offers the alternative but a daring opposite to those typical Hollywood blockbuster. Boasted as “100 % of real action”, this film will be free of stuntmen, wires and absolutely free of CGI in its way to present the fighting scenes. Directed by the first-timer Lee Seong-han with Jung Woo and Jun-il Lim (The City of Violence) along with Koga Mitsuki (Shinobi, Ichi) as the

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College (2008)

R|1 hr 34 mins|Comedy, Teen Movie
A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen.
Synopsis:
After Kevin, a high school senior, gets dumped by his girlfriend for being too boring, he doesn’t want to go to the freshman orientation weekend at Fairmont University, where they had planned to go together. But his best friends, Cater and Morris, convince him that the weekend away will help get his mind off her. Once there, one of the rowdiest fraternities on campus decides to recruit them as “pledges” in return for granting them access to the college party scene. Though forced to put up with the disgusting antics of fraternity brothers Teague, Bearcat, and Cooper, the guys meet sorority girls Kendall, Heather, and Amy, and sparks fly all around. But once Teague feels threatened by Kevin’s new relationship with Kendall, he takes the pre-frosh humiliation to a greater level, and the guys decide to fight back, pulling a huge prank that lands them on top.

Director: Deb Hagan
Starring: Gary Owens, Ryan Pinkston, Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett, Nick Zano, Camille Mana

Movie Trailer College (2008)

Traitor (2008)

PG-13|1 hr 50 mins|Thriller, Political, Spy
A special operative working with a terrorist group becomes the target of the CIA.
Synopsis:
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn, Said Taghmaoui

Movie Trailer Traitor (2008)

Watch your favorite movie on laptop

When you have a business and don’t want to use new technology for your business you will out of competition. Your competitor will leave you behind. Today technology grows fast. We must use technology to make our business bigger and easier to handle than before. No matter your business on music or movie cinema. It will make easier if we use new technology to help us run our business.
Consider with this situation, it is good if you learn technology. One of important technology is computer. You know how computer technologies grow so fast today.
Just buy a brand new laptop to help yourself run your business

The Coffin And Phoonk: Notes From External Reviews

Have been following the hype of these Asian horror movies, “The Coffin” and “Phoonk”, but in fact, I haven’t got the chance to watch it both yet. Thai new supernatural story “The Coffin” by award-winning filmmaker Ekachai Uekrongtham (Beautiful Boxer, Pleasure Factory), and stars some of the most familiar

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Babylon A.D. Director’s Preceding Alarm

How if the film director expressing his hates with his own film? Ironically, he stated it before the film hasn’t release on the market and not even judge by its audiences yet. Somewhat a tragic providence for Vin Diesel’s newest sci-fi action flick “Babylon A.D.”. Talking to AMCTV, French based director Mathieu Kassovitz ripped apart his own movie. "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad

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Something Must Be Burn After Reading

With a strong Hollywood cast, brilliant directors and thrilling writers behind the scene, “Burn After Reading” as Coen brothers’ latest since the Academy Award winning “No Country For Old Men” is unquestionably will be a huge contender to become a good feature and box office optimism in the pretty quiet month of September. Just look at the impressive resume of the brotherly directors itself already made this black comedy be worth to waiting for, “Burn” is also happens to be a remarkably smart and funny comedy that

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Babylon A.D. (2008)

PG-13|1 hr 30 mins|Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adaptation Movie
A mercenary charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada learns that she has been manipulated by a doomsday virus.
Synopsis:
It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns. It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop, lives by a simple survivor’s code: kill or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora and Aurora’s guardian Sister Rebeka embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in “New Russia,” across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined--as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself. Too bad it came on the day he died.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Gérard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson

Movie Trailer Babylon A.D. (2008)

The Longshots

PG|1 hr 34 mins|Drama, Comedy, Sports Movie
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of 11, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Synopsis:
When Curtis Plummer, a down on his luck former high school football star, takes the only job he can find--babysitting his misfit niece Jasmine--he discovers that she has the skills that once made him a great quarterback. The only place these two opposites get along is on the field, so Curtis is determined to turn Jasmine into the star of the local team, The Minden Browns, and get his own stride back by becoming the coach. The boys on the team don’t want her but when this girl quarterback shows them she’s got the skills, she’ll turn their whole world upside down.

Director: Fred Durst
Starring: Ice Cube, Tasha Smith, Keke Palmer, Jill Marie Jones, Earthquake

Movie Trailer The Longshots

Figuring Out The Traitor In The Death Race

This week is a 2-in-1 review from the summer flick final battle between “Traitor” versus “Death Race”.

“Death Race” remake actually had been in development since 2002, though production was delayed by disapproval of early screenplays then placed in turnaround following a dispute between Paramount Pictures and the producer duo Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. The film was then acquired by Universal Studios with Paul W.S. Anderson re-joined the project to write and direct. The story set in a future United States of America where prison inmates compete against each other in a driving arena. In the era when economy of

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Hamlet 2

R | 1 hr 32 mins | Comedy, Satire Movie
A drama teacher and his students stage a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Synopsis:
Dana Marschz is a failed actor-turned-high school drama teacher. Shortchanged in the talent department, Dana still harbors ambitions and passions. At work, that is; his personal life, with his dissatisfied wife Brie and their boarder Gary, leaves much to be desired. At Tucson, AZ’s West Mesa High School, Dana sees himself as an inspirational teacher. But his adaptations of popular films, as performed by his top students Rand and Epiphany, are not resonating. When his latest re-creating Erin Brockovich is dismissed by the 9th grade drama critic and his department is targeted for closure, Dana must reach deep into himself for creativity. After much perspiration, he conceives a sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a musical-theater extravaganza that will disdain both political correctness and dramatic credibility. Rallying and rousing his class, Dana casts a wider net by recruiting transfer students like Ivonne for key roles. With rehearsals underway, objections from school officials and the community are soon raised, but Dana will not be denied his freedom of artistic expression. After all, “to thine own self be true.” Dana gets unexpected support from ACLU attorney Cricket Feldstein and his favorite actress, Elisabeth Shue. Above all else, he fervently believes that his opus must be staged, and nothing can break his optimistic spirit.

Director: Andy Fleming
Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, David Arquette, Elisabeth Shue, Melonie Diaz

Movie Trailer Hamlet 2 (2008)

Optimize my movie news

When you starting blogging you will find that your blog not automatically have visitors. No matter how good your blog design, your blog will have no traffic if you don’t promote your website or blog.
For example is this movie news blog. When first time I start blogging, I have no visitor. Then I learn that I must promote my blog to have visitor. I begin to join traffic exchange to have visitor and learn other method how to get visitors. My friend helps me a lot by giving his tutorials how to optimize my blog. I also use some free tutorial from web how to make my site optimize. After couple’s months I promote my blog, my work starting got result; my blog have visitors! Not much, but I was happy because my work not useless.
Today I still learn how to make my blog have more traffic. I still learn search engine optimization for my blog. If you have any blog like me and want to make your blog optimize I suggest you learn SEO (search engine optimization) too. You can also find help from internet marketer to help you promote and optimize your website. Just remember to optimize your blog with good techniques and strategies.

Hazardous Road Trip In Bangkok Dangerous

“Bangkok Dangerous” is an action flick in Hitman genre which is a very good debut by the Pang brothers, who then gained their names bigger with their sophomore work on “The Eye”. With the film, the brothers are painted an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence, and going all the way with a very realistic action and as a result they had presented us every gunshot and pool of forming blood. Although, they also have all the conventions of the Hitman Genre down with a quite little variation, everything just seems as

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The House Bunny

PG-13 | 1 hr 38 mins | Comedy Movie
A Playboy bunny becomes a sorority housemother when she's thrown out into the streets.
Synopsis:
Shelley Darlington, a Playboy Bunny, is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have; a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

Director: Fred Wolf
Starring: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Dana Goodman, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, Christopher McDonald, Beverly D'Angelo

Movie Trailer The House Bunny (2008)

Fall And Holiday Asian Dishes Menu Peek

This is a continuance article to “Fall And Holiday Movie Menu Peeks”. Now I’ll give some peeks to many new flavors from the Asian dishes which you can consume on this fall and holiday season. Primarily, Asian cinema will coloring with numerous historical epic again this time, they are including the second part of Asian most ambitious project to date, “Red Cliff,” Thai postponement sea epic “Queen of Langkasuka,” Korean

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Movie Store Promotion

Do you have any business like movie store and do you promote your movies store by yourself? Some of you maybe promote your product by yourself. Other people maybe use service from the advertising agency. If you never use service from advertising agency and don’t know what it is, I will give some information about ad agency.
An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. Typical ad agency clients include businesses and corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Agencies may be hired to produce single ads or, more commonly, ongoing series of related ads, called an advertising campaign.
The advantage using an advertising agency service is your business will be promoted even well, it because an advertising agency will promote and spread your business. It will provides full outdoor services, indoor promotion support, store & event promotion, media promotion for your product launching, brand promotion and event celebration promo as you wish.
If you want your business more success try to use an advertising agency service. But you must find a good Advertising Agency that able to promote your product. Don’t spend your money to pay unworthy ad agency and consider with your budget when choosing advertising agency.

The Rocker (2008)

PG-13 | 1 hr 42 mins | Comedy, Music Movie
A failed rock-band drummer is given a second chance at fame.
Synopsis:
When we first meet Robert "Fish" Fishman, he and his bandmates from Vesuvius are in full ‘80s glory--knocking out headbanging songs and sporting big hair, scarves, and impossibly tight leather pants. Just as Vesuvius is about to break big, Fish is tossed out of the band. Flash-forward twenty years: the ex-drummer extraordinaire, who lived, ate, breathed, slept and most of all, sweated rock n’ roll, works for an insurance company and is living with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew Matt. In short, Fish is a broken man, stuck in a mid-life crisis. But when he learns that Matt’s band, A.D.D., is searching for a new drummer, Fish volunteers well, really, he begs--for a shot. Fish is over two decades older than his bandmates, yet somehow he completes A.D.D.: the brooding, hair-in-the-face singer Curtis; the stiff-as-a-board supernerd Matt; the ironic post-modern punk girl Amelia and now the ancient rocker, Fish. Spurred by Fish’s habit of rehearsing in the buff (and hip new moniker “The Naked Drummer”), A.D.D. becomes an internet sensation. They hit the road for their first big tour along with Curtis’ mom, Kim, as a chaperon. But as Fish once again lives the rock and roll life he thought was almost a birthright, he begins a journey that will take him to a place even he never thought possible: adulthood.

Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Emma Stone, Jeff Garlin

Movie Trailer The Rocker (2008)

Death Race

R | 1 hr 29 mins | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Sports Movie
An ex-con is forced by a prison warden to compete in a brutal, deadly car race.
Synopsis:
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the U.S. penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the world’s biggest, most brutal sporting event. Five-time NASCAR champion Jensen Ames is a man who has become an expert at survival. After eight years of hard time, he has only six weeks before reuniting with his family. But when Weyland demands a driver to headline the big game, Ames is forced to submit. Donning the costume of mythical rider Frankenstein, the racer becomes an instant crowd favorite, an unequaled sporting superstar. His face hidden by a metallic black mask, one convict will be put through a brutal three day challenge, with the trophy being the ultimate prize: freedom. The only catch is that he must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in this post-industrial wasteland to claim it. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames must now kill or be killed to win the most treacherous spectator sport on Earth: 'Death Race'.

Director: Paul Anderson
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez, Jason Clarke

Movie Trailer Death Race (2008)

Tropic Thunder Shock The Dark Knight Out Of The Throne

It couldn’t last forever, especially the high end position in the box office. “The Dark Knight” must to admit if someday another film has to knock it off of the best selling movie throne, which had conquered for consecutively four weekends. And Ben Stiller’s new action comedy “Tropic Thunder” really got the lucky number on this Knight’s fifth weekend, after a weak start in early release Wednesday, the film got a kick start heading into the weekend. Friday's

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Fall And Holiday Movie Menu Peeks

After the glamorous summer fest ended, we’ll be going through the nearly end of the year months that ought to offers the fall and holiday movie fest. Talking about what new dishes that have included on the menu this season, actually there have been some slotted in and out here. The most awaited sixth adventure of Harry Potter in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” has been moved back to summer 2009, after has slotted to release on this Nov 21. Meanwhile, another based on best-selling novels’ film, “Twilight” now moved the release date that previously scheduled on December to

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Tropic Thunder Strike Mirrors Out of Clone Wars

While this week the cinema had released three new movies consecutively, so this time, I’m gonna try to make a threesome reviews right away. There are Ben Stiller and Co. welcome to the jungle comedy “Tropic Thunder”, another Asian horror idea clone “Mirrors” and the real clone of Star Wars series in animation style “Clone Wars”. Let’s we begin with the horror first,

“Mirrors” (Warning: This review maybe contained with spoiler).

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Fly Me to the Moon

G | 1 hr 30 mins | Comedy, Family, Animated, Foreign Movie
Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
Synopsis:
Three young flies set off on a courageous mission to become the first insects on the moon by hitching a ride on the historic Apollo 11 space flight. The year is 1969 and like everyone else in the world, Nat and his pals IQ and Scooter are abuzz over the upcoming launch of the first manned mission to the moon. Inspired by his Grandpa’s oft-told tale of hiding aboard Amelia Earhart’s plane during her famed solo cross-Atlantic flight, Nat hatches a secret plan for the three young flies to stow away on the Apollo 11 rocket. The hard part is keeping the plan secret from his mom, Mrs. McFly! When a N.A.S.A. Ground Control official catches sight of the three winged stowaways, he instructs the astronauts to store them in a test tube for later study. But after an electrical short causes the ship’s engine to malfunction, the three intrepid insects manage to escape from their glass mini-brig just in time to discover the wiring problem and fix it. After a difficult lunar landing, Nat tags along with Neil Armstrong on his legendary moon walk. Although the flies face a few more close calls, the mission appears to be a success. At least until Grandpa’s old flame Nadia arrives from Russia to warn him that her government, angry over losing the space race, has dispatched fly-spy Yegor to Cape Canaveral to sabotage the computer flight plans. With the Apollo hurtling toward Earth, it falls to Nat’s family to save the mission--and the trio of brave flies--from disaster.

Director: Ben Stassen
Starring: Nicolette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Begley Jr., Buzz Aldrin

Movie Trailer Fly Me to the Moon

The Black Cinema World Of BET vs.TV One

Okay, I see that BET is trying to compete a bit with TV One on the Black Movie thing. For the most part, BET isn't really stepping to the plate like they should, mainly showing "Soul Plane" ad nauseum. Take last night, for example: TV One was showing "Shaft", "Shaft's Big Score!", and "Shaft Goes To Africa". BET was showing "New Jack City". While I know that New Jack City is on many a favorite list, in my mind, there is no contest; TV One is bout it, bout it.

Let's briefly summarize what has been shown on BET Movies as of late (bear in mind I don't pay much attention to their line-up):

Gang Of Roses: Lil'Kim. Stacey Dash, Monica Calhoun (ugh) and others I kinda forgot as former prostitutes in the wild, wild West that become outlaws on the lam. Who knew that there were weaves, Baby Phat clothing, and MAC makeup in the Old West? Complete and total ridiculosity in every way from the script to the costuming to the acting.


The Wash: Featuring the super amazing acting skills of Snoop Dogg and Doctor Dre as 2 buddies working at a car wash. I frequently say that this is the worst Black movie I've ever seen, and I doubt that will ever change to my grave.

Leprechaun: Back To Tha Hood: About a leprechaun running around the ghetto trying to get his gold back. Need I say more?


State Property 2: Was there even a need to make State Property One?

Waist Deep: Super, duper low budget, but I'll give them a pass on this one (the only one), because I love looking at Tyrese and Meagan Good.


Three Can Play That Game: Kudos for at least trying to stay semi-current. As for the film itself....*sigh*

Nora's Hair Salon 2: I wrote about the dude who "wrote" and "directed" this movie before, Jean Claude LaMarre, a singular force involved with some of the worst films in Black Cinema history (he was also a part of "Gang Of Roses" and "Don't Touch Me If You Ain't Prayed! Part 2"). LMAO at his introduction in the beginning saying that he feels a responsibility toward our community for telling real stories about "us". Whatev! If you thought the first Nora's Hair Salon was bad, it was "The Dark Knight" compared to part two.


TV One on the other hand...classic and wonderful all day long.

Car Wash: Richard Pryor, Bill Duke, The Pointer Sisters, Ivan Dixon, George Carlin, Antonio Fargas, and the music of Rose Royce all in one film? Yes, the storyline was trite, but it is a true beloved classic., and everything "The Wash" wishes it was.

Dirty Laundry: The one misstep from them, maybe. Tho the core storyline was well intentioned, I place it on that long list of formula films that I am beginning to loathe....family comes together for a gathering, usually at a cookout or big dinner--macaroni and cheese, greens, fried chicken, etc. is served---revelations are made, secrets are revealed, drama ensues, and it is wrapped up with "family is family, no matter what". Can somebody please, please PLEASE give Jenifer Lewis a new M.O.? I can recite her lines as the sassy/mean/nosey/hypocritical neighbor/relative almost before she says them herself.

When We Kings: TV One wins for this one alone, in my eyes. It has been on my top 5 list since the first time I saw it. I am always very interested in how Blacks have lived in other decades; their clothes, their music, their challenges. Though this film is technically about Muhammad Ali and the infamous "Rumble In The Jungle" fight, it is all the things I look for and more.

It is about race relations in the United States, as well as the beginnings of American Blacks being able to start reaching out to our African brothers for really the first time. It had performances by The Spinners, James Brown, Miriam Makeba (all who performed for the related festivities of the fight) and is a perfect snapshot of how very political and influential Ali was at his pinnacle, though that becomes almost secondary in this film.

I will go more in depth about this film at another time-it deserves it's own post; until then, enjoy the Black Cinema TV One is supplying to the masses.

Cheaper By The Dozen Traitors

How do you think about any political thriller again? If you’re a fans, so you’re quite lucky cause there will come another typical film once more. Now the title is “Traitor”, a film starred by Academy Award® nominee Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda," "Crash") and Guy Pearce ("Memento," "L.A. Confidential"), two names that possibly will also raise your interest, as well when you know the mind behind the idea for the film, who is the funny guy from comedies like “Bringing Down the House”, “Cheaper By the Dozen” and “The Pink Panther”. Yup, Steve Martin occasionally comes up with an idea for a movie of his own, although he’s not starring in the film, he has also serve as the executive producer. The script was

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7 Random Movie Questions.....

1) Finally got on the late train and saw "The Dark Knight". Yes, it was great, but how come amid all this fabulousness I kept focusing on the mynute detail of how very "un-Hollywood" everybody's teeth were? Yes, I have a problem.....

2) I saw a billboard today of some new fall show with cornballio Taye Diggs in it. Who keeps giving this n*gga work?

3) Speaking of mysteriously working n*ggas, after seeing the previews of Vin Diesel in "Babylon AD", is he is picking up the torch from Wesley Snipes for crap-fest-o-rama action movies?

4) Saw "Transformers" on HBO this past weekend, cause I had zero interest in seeing it last year (I vote boo!). Is it me or are the blockbusters this summer so much more amazing this year that any other year in history?

5) Why does anyone (especially Whoopie) deem this necessary?

'Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg is set to play the scheming muse Caliope in "Xanadu," the musical spoof of the infamous 1980 roller-disco flop. '

What happened to her bringing "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" to Broadway with india.irie? (technically that's two questions)

6) People are furious at "Tropic Thunder" making fun of people with disabilities? Hello? Blackface?*

7) Why am I always disturbed by Raven Symone's wardrobe choices?




*the whole tropic thunder/blackface thing by the way, i really don't care about at all

So Sue Me....

Yes, I missed the American Black Film Festival that was held here in Los Angeles this month. I think I made my feelings clear about how I feel about these events in my last post about Black film festivals. Until things improve in my eyes, I'm gonna be pretty darn selective.

Undercover Black Man went to the closing night film, which is uaually the biggest shindig at these things. LMAO at his random comment about bras and backless dresses!:

Last night I finally got to see “The Black List,” the new documentary by Elvis Mitchell and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. (I blogged about this project in January.) It was screened in Beverly Hills.

Alas, I didn’t know the screening was part of the closing-night festivities for the American Black Film Festival. Dudes were rocking blazers, women had on heels... and I stepped up in there with jeans and tennis shoes. Straight bummin’.

I haven’t seen that many black folks in one spot in a while. Celebrity-wise, I spotted Eriq LaSalle across the crowded lobby. I also saw a (white) porn star, Nina Hartley. First I assumed they let her in on a Booty Waiver. (Yeah, fellas... she’s still got that bubble tush working.) But then I saw her chumming around with Greenfield-Sanders, who directed a porn-star documentary in 2004.

Speaking of getting dressed up, may I ask you ladies a question? What’s the deal with wearing a bra with a backless dress? I saw that twice, and it is messed-up-looking.

Anyway... “The Black List” rocked the place. Not only did Elvis and Tim get a standing ovation, not only were there numerous outbursts of applause throughout the movie... but there were murmurs, laughs and other sounds of affirmation indicating a fully engaged crowd.

Elvis declared that this was the best audience for “The Black List” ever.

And all the movie is is a series of interviews with notable Negroes... from Colin Powell to Chris Rock, from Toni Morrison to Serena Williams. “The Black List” has a cumulative power that belies its simple structure. It really does feel like you’re eavesdropping on the world’s coolest cocktail party.

Matter fact, “The Black List” works so well as a group experience, I wonder whether it’ll be as effective when it debuts on HBO two weeks from tonight.

Plus you’ll see a photo of Slash as a teenager with an Afro. And a picture of Louis Gossett, Jr. from his Greenwich Village “beatnik” days, strumming a guitar. (Who knew?)

A companion “Black List” coffee-table book, featuring Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ photo portraits of the interviewees, goes on sale next month.

UPDATE! Here is my Sergio (left) with one of the filmmakers Elvis Mitchell, at his Black Harvest Film Festival screening of "The Black List".

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

PG-13 | 1 hr 36 mins | Comedy, Drama, Romance Movie
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter who has issues with his ex-wife.
Synopsis:
Vicky and Cristina, these two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, both comedic and harrowing results ensue.

Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Chris Messina, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn

Movie Trailer Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Soul Men....

I blogged about the movie "Soul Men", which stars Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, and is directed by Malcolm Lee in February HERE (bear in mind the pictures are missing for some reason). Some are saying that the film might not be released in this year as originally planned, cause it is a comedy, and it is too morbid to have 2 co-stars that passed in a comedy released too soon after their deaths. I think that would be a shame. For a thought about this, read this article, sent to me by Sergio:

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/08/will-the-deaths-of-bernie-mac-001008.php

What do you think?

Pineapple Express Have No Guts To Steal The Dark Knight Crown

“Pineapple Express” has comes with high expectations, that this will be topping the obscenity of other Judd Apatow’s comedy creation, “Knocked Up” and “Superbad”. But patterned in another scenario of an unlucky person who sees a murdering then being pursued by the murderer all over the way is somewhat another going a thousand way on the plot history, or in the other hand it also could be said as another hackneyed. Wrapped on those all around cliché, Bong Mitzvah of Pineapple Express fortunately still offered several genuine express amusements which don’t trade on any stoned reaction shots to

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Mirrors (2008)

R | 1 hr 50 mins | Thriller, Horror Movie
A mall security guard becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store's mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people.
Synopsis:
A man is head of security at a department store plagued by unexplained deaths. The store is also the target of demonstrators wanting compensation for an earlier staff fire tragedy. The man becomes intrigued by a disturbed woman. She claims her sister, who died in the fire, is exacting revenge, using mirrors as a gateway back into the living world.

Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil, John Shrapnel, Jason Flemyng, Tim Ahern, Julian Glover, Josh Cole, Ezra Buzzington, Ioana Abur, Aida Doina, Darren Kent

Movie Trailer Mirrors (2008)

Holee Sh*t!

Not Issac Hayes too! He passed today...damn, is it true about what they say that these things come in 3's? This one has me twisted.

My father used to play an album called "Hot Buttered Soul" when I was a kid, and Isaac had a deep voice that dripped all the things I didn't know about. There was some album cover where he was dressed in a jumpsuit made of chains, bald head shining. I also know he liked to call himself "Black Moses" and would appear in some type of Arabic/biblical head covering. I didn't know what to make of him then (at all), but I know now that he was a mack daddy to the fullest.

R.I.P. Black Moses.

Here is Issac laying his mack hand down with a 6-pack of beer and some KFC. I may be wrong, but I don't think that would really work on any chicks that look like Annazette Chase, but "Truck Turner" is a movie after all:



Update: R&B diva Aretha Franklin said:

"[Hayes was] so musically advanced and timeless in his compositions. He was loved and appreciated by so many. He was an enduring symbol of the struggle of the African-American man and was a shining example of soul at its best."* *

From IW: Agreed.


**spotted on daddybstrong