(L-R) Draco and Hilly. Credit: WB/Dreamworks Many times, racist characters can make you feel angry. However, the really well-rounded racist characters can make you feel simultaneously angry and saddened, just like a real person would. When I say “saddened,” I don’t mean you’re sad because of what they said (which can happen); I mean...
(L-R) Skeeter (Emma Stone), Minny (Octavia Spencer) and Aibileen (Viola Davis). Credit: Dreamworks I’ve been reporting on this site about the impact The Help could have on movies with diverse casts. You can read more about it in these posts, but the jist of it can be summed up in this quote from my article...
Credit: Tri Films By LM Preston Fandango Blurb: Cataleya, a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child. Turning herself into a professional killer and working for her uncle, she remains focused on her ultimate goal: to hunt down and get revenge on...
Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer) watching someone read Skeeter’s (Emma Stone) book in the grocery store. Credit: Dreamworks I think a lot of people and some of the magazines/websites, including black historians and this post from Entertainment Weekly, got hung up on the fact that this film about southern race relations in the...
The main cast of X-Men: First Class: (l-r) Caleb Landry Jones, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Lucas Till. Credit: Marvel/Twentieth Century Fox I missed X-Men: First Class when it first came to theaters, but thanks to Twentieth Century Fox sending me a screener copy, I was able to watch it before its...
Johnny Depp at the French premiere of Public Enemies. Credit: nicogenin (Creative Commons Flickr) It was announced this weekend that Disney’s The Lone Ranger, which would have star Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, has ended production. For some, this can be viewed as a lost opportunity; for those people, there’s...
UK poster for the film. Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Synopsis (From Twentieth Century Fox): A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other — and to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The Oscar-winning visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of Avatar and Lord...
Credit: HSN/Food Network Recently, I wrote about an article which stated that the monetary success of The Help will help Hollywood realize that diverse casts do sell to white audiences. The person who the article was focusing on, Professor Andrew Weaver of Indiana University’s telecommunications department, said that if marketing was better for movies with...
by LM Preston A SURPRISE ADVENTURE! FANDANGO BLURB: A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). But Absolution is about to experience fear...
By LM Preston Oh my FREAKIN’ GOSH!!!!!! Okay I’m totally gonna skip to the best part of the movie….after the credits roll, you get an AWESOME tease….THE AVENGERS PREVIEW!!!!! FANDANGO BLURB: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a...
Official press photo of Goggins Birmingham is the birthplace of many Hollywood stars, and in a few weeks, one such star can be seen in the film“Cowboys and Aliens.” Actor Walton Goggins, who plays the character “Hunt” in the film, makes sure to not only properly convey a character’s story, but to also...
Credit: WB I tried to come up with a nice title for this review, but I felt anything I might write would be too harsh, especially since I’m about to be harsh in my review. Three things before I begin–1) I have read every Harry Potter book and related material such as the books about...
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