Coming Attractions: Halloween Weekend
HALLOWEEN WEEKEND COMNG ATTRACTIONS… Nightcrawler (2014) A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism. Director: Dan Gilroy Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodríguez Before I…
#TBT Bullets Over Broadway
It is no secret that I am a huge fan of filmmaker Woody Allen. So, when I learned that one of his films would deal with the theatre world in…
#TBT Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Get ready for a lot more monsters!!! In addition to Universal’s plan to reboot their classic monster movies, we’ve also got a Fox “grounded sci-fi drama” Frankenstein via a put…
Coming Attractions: Week of October 24th
Opening This Week – October 24 Ouija (2014) 89 min – Horror A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit…
Review: Birdman
What happens when an actor playing a superhero falls on hard times and reverts to Broadway in order to revive his stalled career? In 1989, Michael Keaton played Batman and…
#TBT Being Julia
Being a Broadway baby, I couldn’t wait to see this film for two reasons…Theatre and Annette Bening! Set in the world of the late 1930’s London stage, reigning diva Julia…
#TBT Pulp Fiction
I was in rehearsal for the 1st revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and the buzz in rehearsals was about this new filmmaker that had this…
Review: Dear White People
As a young film student at Howard University, I remember fondly going to a seminar that was part of HU’s Communications Conference debating the validity of Spike Lee’s Do The…
Review: PRIDE
My uncle Cedric and my cousin Arthur died from A.I.D.S. A.I.D.S., otherwise known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, was a word in the 80’s synonymous with mystery, disease and the…
Review: The Judge
Small town folks never leave. They grow up there, get married there, start their families there, grow old there and pass on from this realm all within a very safe and…
