trailer break: ‘Four Lions’

I’m so glad I had not seen this trailer before I saw the film. Because although it does not truly capture how hilarious the movie is, there are things in it that I screamed with laughter at because they were so startling, and I wouldn’t have been as startled if I’d been primed for them by the trailer.

For Colored Girls (review)

Indie filmmaker Tyler Perry has spun an unlikely career out of catering to underserved black audiences by giving them excruciatingly unwatchable minstrel-show movies. Now, finally, Perry has made a film that doesn’t pander, that has something meaningful to say — something actually worth hearing…