Articles tagged "cedric the entertainer"

Film Review

Cadillac Records

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.08] :. In the ambitious and cluttered Cadillac Records, Leonard Chess redistributes income among his artists, but the point is not lost on any of them that he decides who plays when and even how to play.

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Short Ends and Leader

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

by Bill Gibron

[15.Jun.08] :. There is a fine line between realism and the ridiculous. Put another way, when dealing with ethnic archetypes, it is easy to confuse truth with a tendency toward cultural insensitivity. Comedy is...

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Film Review

Street Kings

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.08] :. In Street Kings, Tom (Keanu Reeves) is puffy and surly, Neo if he hadn't met Trinity, Neo unsaved.

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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. There's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, briefly visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery, especially.

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Simply Cedric: This king of comedy doesn’t hold back

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Feb.08] :. DALLAS—“Pardon my Tony Soprano look here,” says Cedric the Entertainer, wearing a bathrobe and a knit ski cap, as he shuffles into a suite last month at the Crescent Court Hotel in...

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Film DVD Review

Talk to Me

by Jake Meaney

[29.Nov.07] :. Vibrant, exuberant, colorful and irresistibly alive, Talk to Me is a celebration of a lifestyle as much as a life -- the thumping funk, soul and R&B of the late '60s, early '70s.

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Don Cheadle keeps it real in ‘Talk to Me’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[27.Jul.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Don Cheadle doesn’t want to punch a reporter. But he may need to punch a reporter. “I need to do something,” the soft-spoken actor says with a laugh, between...

Don Cheadle gets the word out about ‘Talk to Me’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[13.Jul.07] :. “You do what you are able to do,” says Cheadle. “That’s my responsibility as a human. But as an actor, you know, I don’t always want to represent all that is good and noble. Sometimes you just want to, you know, get down a little bit.”

Kids’ DVDs: June 2007

by Roger Holland

[6.Jun.07] :. Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.

Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

by Bill Gibron

[3.May.07] :. Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.

Codename: The Cleaner (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.07] :. Ostensibly, Codename tells the story of a man who finds himself.

Charlottes Web (2006)

by Daynah Burnett

[14.Dec.06] :. Surprise! There is nothing even remotely offensive or ironic or postmodern about Charlotte's Web.

The Honeymooners (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Nov.05] :. While most of the target audience for the movie may not remember the TV version, Schultz's Honeymooners unfortunately forgets what was most appealing about the show.

Be Cool (2005)

by Tim O'Neil

[18.Jul.05] :. The John Travolta movie starts off on the wrong foot and proceeds downwards.

Madagascar (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. What could be better -- you have four legs, all kinds of energy, and all the room in the world?"

Be Cool (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.05] :. Utterly out of place, the Rock is the most convincing character in sight.

Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.04] :. The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.04] :. Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) comes to understand a new place for himself, and, no small thing, frames an acutely political history by his own story.

Johnson Family Vacation (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Apr.04] :. Everyone is unhappy at the prospect of the drive from L.A., as it entails numerous days stuffed in Nate's newly outfitted SUV.

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.03] :. The Coen brothers' latest venture is a rat-a-tat romantic comedy of the Preston Sturges persuasion, at least for its first hour or so.

Cedric the Entertainer Presents

by Bernadette Adams Davis

[23.Sep.02] :. Instead of being safe, Cedric the Entertainer Presents needs to keep it real -- real sharp, real topical and real controversial.

Barbershop (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. Barbershop's multiple charms are all sweet.

Serving Sara (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.02] :. 'My job sucks,' says Joe (Matthew Perry) at the beginning of Reginald Hudlin's peculiar romantic comedy.

The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

“It’s hard enough just to be black. We don’t need to be looking for excitement.” D. L. Hughley’s explanation for why black folks don’t go bungee jumping...

Kingdom Come (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What the film does especially well is explore the perpetual strains and stresses of family relationships, especially with the added duress of scraping by, day to day, in an economy that shows no mercy. That 'Kingdom Come' does all this through comedy makes the exploration both more and less painful.