Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Award winners
Lots of love for The Social Network, Black Swan, and The Kids Are All Right…
For Colored Girls
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
cinematic roots of: ‘For Colored Girls’
In For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry makes his first foray into serious drama — instead of asinine comedy — about the lives of contemporary black Americans. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
James Franco takes on ‘Three’s Company’; making the pilgrimage to Middle Earth; ‘The King’s Speech,’ awards bait; more: leftover links
Plus, Tyler Perry, misunderstood genius; from Winter’s Bone to X-Men; cable subscribers flee; more…
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…
how ‘Caprica’ should end; why Roger Ebert hates lists; what the frak is Roland Emmerich up to?; more: leftover links
And: John Landis disses Inception; Foursquare in space; Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster; more…
trailer break: ‘For Colored Girls’
I’ll be curious to see if Tyler Perry’s audience, which has come out in droves for his idiotic mishmashes of slapstick and melodrama, will come out again for a film that actually attempts to be a film, one with some actual ambitions and with something meaningful to say…
