Articles tagged "james earl jones"

Film Review

Earth

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[22.Apr.09] :. Earth caters to a younger audience, keeping its biological and environmental lessons at a basic level of understanding.

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Coming to America

by Stuart Henderson

[6.Apr.09] :. From big hair to shoulder pads, power suits to Jeri-Curl, and an omnipresent and delightfully horrific synthed-out soundtrack, this flick has a hungover Sunday on the couch written all over it.

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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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James Earl Jones: from Darth Vader to ‘Big Daddy’

by Frank Lovece [Newsday (MCT)]

[26.Mar.08] :. When James Earl Jones takes the stage as Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” the Broadhurst Theatre fairly trembles. For all the fussin’ and flitterin’ of Maggie (Anika Noni...

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James Earl Jones is reason enough to see all-black ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’

by Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)]

[7.Mar.08] :. Theatergoers can - and surely will - argue about the historical logic of the all-black “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” that opened Thursday night at the Broadhurst Theatre. Without the reverse...

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Film Review

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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Paul Robeson - James Earl Jones One Man Show

by Leigh H. Edwards

[7.Mar.05] :. We learn that racial discrimination drove Robeson into his performance career, which he thought of as a form of resistance.

 

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jan.05] :. The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908 to 1915, Jack Johnson was rowdy, smart, rebellious, and proud.

 

Best of the Best (1989)

by Dan Devine

[8.Nov.04] :. Dude, it's Eric Roberts. And he's the better of the two actors. It ain't happening.