Articles tagged "tyler perry"

Column: Write Black at You

Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?

by Roland Laird

[30.Oct.09] :. Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.

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Tyler Perry says he didn’t use white actors to appeal to a different audience

by Kevin C. Johnson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[19.Sep.08] :. Unlikely movie mogul Tyler Perry created his own industry with flicks such as “Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by 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.

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Film Review

Tyler Perrys Daddys Little Girls (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Feb.07] :. A disappointingly outsized villain, Jenny fills up what would have been Madea's space, only she's not so strong, entertaining, or even convincing.

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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Feb.05] :. While Helen's story is compelling, it's subsumed by the men's antics.

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