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Articles tagged "jada pinkett smith" TV ReviewHawthoRNe: Series Premiereby Leigh H. Edwards[16.Jun.09] :. HawthoRNe offers a bracing combination of fast-paced professional crises and personal tensions.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureOMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20! PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  NewsActors happily reunite to take their ‘Madagascar’ characters home to Africaby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][7.Nov.08] :. LOS ANGELES - In the teeming banquet of humanity, Jada Pinkett Smith is the size of an hors d’oeuvre. Which has not, in defiance of most conventional thinking, made her happy. “I...  Short Ends and LeaderChild Friendly?by Bill Gibron[5.Nov.08] :. It’s safe to say that Hollywood has finally figured out the family film. Not in a good way, mind you, but in an instantly profitable paradigm which guarantees coffers of cash either before or...  Film ReviewThe Womenby Todd R. Ramlow[12.Sep.08] :. Despite its title, The Women is not an update of George Cukor's diva smackdown of the same name.  The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview FeatureTalk, Talk, Talk: November 2008by Bill Gibron[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008. The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008by Bill Gibron[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one. 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?" Collateral (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent. Tupac: Resurrection (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.Jun.04] :. Hearing Tupac Amaru Shakur talk about himself in the past tense is unnerving at first. Not only was he profound and perceptive in his early 20s, he was prescient too. Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him. Tupac: Resurrection (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Nov.03] :. This sense-making also has to do with extrapolation and education -- granting Tupac yet another chance to speak his mind, indict injustice, and urge action. Matrix Revolutions (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Nov.03] :. 'Why, Mr. Anderson?'asks Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), for what seems the umpteenth time. All of Us / Eveby Cynthia Fuchs[13.Oct.03] :. These days, hip-hop and tv seem rather like they were made for each other, what with their many interconnections in near every commercial for fast food, soda, and sporting gear, not to mention any number of tv shows, from dramas to sitcoms, that use hiphop to signify everything from sophistication to club culture, comedy to coolness. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[14.May.03] :. Morpheus is a stanch warrior and provocative thinker, as well as a black man in a world where the machines' agents tend to be white men in suits. Ali (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Dec.01] :. Ali embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves. Kingdom Come (2001)by Cynthia FuchsWhat 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. |
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