Features
Wednesday, January 5 2011
The Best Female Film Performances of 2010
The ladies really lit up the big screen, delivering the kind of brilliant acting work that makes picking a mere 20 that much more difficult, let alone unearthing a clear number one.
Tuesday, January 4 2011
The Guilty Pleasure Films of 2010
A collection of 10 films that make us feel bad for loving them so - though we can easily defend each and every one... we think.
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Reviews
Friday, November 5 2010
'For Colored Girls': Dead Mice Fall From My Mouth
Adapting Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem, For Colored Girls is both too literal and surprisingly clueless.
Thursday, February 15 2007
Tyler Perrys Daddys Little Girls (2007)
A disappointingly outsized villain, Jenny fills up what would have been Madea's space, only she's not so strong, entertaining, or even convincing.
Blogs
Thursday, November 4 2010
Of Perry and Poetry
For Colored Girls is strikingly different. It is obtuse, off-kilter, undeniably arresting and performed with a kind of acting gusto unseen in recent films. Everyone here is terrific, teary-eyed and true to the measure of Shange's words.
News
Friday, September 19 2008
Tyler Perry says he didn't use white actors to appeal to a different audience
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…
