Movies & Film Blog

Movie Preview: 2012

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:57:16 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Well it’s almost a year to the day that I mentioned 2012, and one thing is certain. The hype surrounding that date, and likely this movie, is only growing with time. There wasn’t a lot known in 2008 about this film - other than it would be the disaster film that might [...]

Movie Preview: Armored

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:52:07 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA So what happens when you have several old actors, a couple that never made it big time, and a few newbies thrown in for the hell of it? Well you could make a film that has been done a dozen times before. Armored is a film we all have seen before. It’s [...]

There’s no messing with Bronson

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:09:27 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Tom Hardy as Bronson, a performance you won’t soon forget. Bronson is not the story of Charles Bronson, the tough guy actor who starred in Death Wish and who died in 2003. No, Bronson is a souped-up portrait of a man who acquired the reputation of being the most violent prisoner in Great [...]

Michael Jackson in concert — almost

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:44:51 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Judging by his reputation, Michael Jackson had many personalities. We got a glimpse of one of them when we learned about Jackson’s personal Xanadu, Neverland Ranch. We saw another when Jackson was forced to drag himself into a Los Angeles courtroom as the cable TV cameras rolled. Over the years, we watched [...]

A hairy funny movie with Chris Rock

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:30:19 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Chris Rock watches as a girl gets “good ” hair. It’s hardly a secret that women will go to great lengths and incur great debt in their quest for beauty. In the case of many black women — or so we’re reminded in Chris Rock’s funny and insightful Good Hair — hair straightening [...]

Movie Preview: Not Evil Just Wrong

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:59:36 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Remember when a regular guy stepped up and took on the mega-corporations in a movie. There was no end to coverage in the media and support for the film created a career for Michael Moore. Since that time he has jumped up and down on the Conservatives of the nation, and [...]

Suffering we’ll never understand

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:10:38 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Sometimes if feels as if there’s just no solace. If we take A Serious Man as a guide, we can speculate that Joel and Ethan Coen view the universe in one of several ways: It is either godless, presided over by a deity who’s entirely indifferent to the plight of humanity, or, more [...]

Movie Review: Surrogates

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:43:55 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Surrogates is the latest film to feature Bruce Willis. It’s an action sci-fi combination that plays on familiar themes, and slips in a bit ot philosophy/politics when you aren’t looking. Starting with the plot, it does have one. It’s not hard to follow and it is set-up well. The progrssion of AI [...]

From the West Bank to White Castle

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:39:21 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Nisareen Faour and Hiam Abbass play sisters in Amreeka.I love movies about the changing face of the U.S. I’m particularly partial to stories about immigrants who live in identity-challenging twilight zones; they’re not fully integrated into American society, and they may no longer fit into their countries of origin, either. For immigrants [...]

Vaughn, Favreau on vacation from laughter

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:37:09 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Not folks with whom I’d want to be stranded on an island. Couples Retreat seems to have been designed to send couples out of the theater holding hands, reassured that it’s possible to rediscover the spark in marriages grown stale. I’m not knocking the message, but I do take issue with the messenger, [...]

The worst films since 2000

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:08:09 +0000

Written by Black Entertainment USA Having watched Stargate Universe, and learning of the upcoming V revisioned television series, I natually started to think about the worst that Hollywood and the entertainment industry has provided viewers. The list I could imagine is hardly small. And I wasn’t the only one to come up with such a list. It [...]

The lie that changed the world

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:10 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner. One of them’s lying. The Invention of Lying is the most sweetly subversive movie I’ve seen in a long time, a sad-sack comedy that satirizes the mindset that’s required for a literal belief in a deity that presides over the world with an inflexible set of rules. As [...]

Michael Moore weighs in on capitalism

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:59:23 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Wall Street doesn’t seem to be listening as Michael Moore calls it to task. Here’s a shocker. Michael Moore thinks capitalism is evil. Look, can there be any remaining moviegoer who doesn’t know what to expect from Michael Moore, the provocateur and self-annointed spokesman for the left? Moore’s shtick has become so familiar that [...]

Coming of age while skating

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:58:12 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed Juliette Lewis and Ellen Page are rivals in Whip It. Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It, a film about roller derby and a young woman’s (Juno’s Ellen Page) arduous journey of self-discovery. The combination doesn’t make for anything startling, but results in a colorfully entertaining movie in which Page once [...]

Zombies eat humans! Result: Laughs

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:57:02 +0000

Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed It takes firepower to survive a zombie attack. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies slaughtering all of humanity. Apologies to T.S. Eliot, but in contemplating catastrophe Eliot didn’t have the benefit of seeing Zombieland. He knew nothing of the virus that turned [...]