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Support AFFRM – Kinyarwanda at select theaters this weekend
AFFRM is the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement – empowering black independent filmmakers with collaborative, simultaneous theatrical distribution in multiple markets. Last March AFFRM got behind Ava DuVernay’s I Will Follow (click for T & T commentary). Giving it a chance to reach a wider audience. This weekend AFFRM is launching Alrick Brown’s KINYARWANDA. Which I will screen on Sunday. The below video from Reelblack features Brown talking about the film, AFFRM and the state of African American Cinema in general. For all its greatness, “Hotel Rwanda” nevertheless used the conventional Hollywood technique of a movie star as a protagonist to serve as the audience’s entry point. None of the…
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Commentary – Hugo
So here we are once again in the midst of the holiday movie season with plenty of family fun and enchantment to choose from: The Muppets make a comeback; Happy Feet II or is it III?; For the tweens and teens, another addition to the Twilight Saga, and for adults wanting to take their children to something magical with a message – Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, based on Brian Selznick award winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The film is set circa 1930’s, although Hugo (Asa Butterfield) looks like a street urchin straight out of a Dickens novel. He’s an orphan whose wonderfully loving father, a clockmaker (Jude Law) dies…
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Commentary – Demi & Ashton Call it Quits
It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I accept the news of Demi and Ashton’s divorce. I always liked them as a couple. For so long they defyed the odds – not only the May-Dec thing or the fact that you can’t look at Kutcher without seeing him as Kelso, but they seemed to work out the fact that Demi was living a less Hollywood existence and Ashton was smack in the middle of it. I love that he was able to find his role with her daughters and with Bruce. But most of all, there was always something so genuine about their enjoyment of each other. On…
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At Home with Trader Joe’s: Chicken Quesadillas & Lobster Ravioli
Gotta start by saying this is NOT a paid sponsorship or affiliation. I wouldn’t be adverse to that opportunity, but this post just comes from the fact that when I’m home, I don’t cook. I make easy does it, just add water or oil and stir kinda meals, while still looking for comfort foods, big tastes and lots of flavor. All of which I find in Trader Joe’s Southwest Chicken Quesadillas (4 Tines) – they come 2 in a box costing $3.29, so that’s less than $1.70 each. A price you can’t get at any restaurant, but they are restaurant quality! All the ingredients are real, as if you cut…
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Commentary – J. Edgar
He was a mysterious figure in American history. His personal life was always shrouded in mystery … He was this bulldog figure, the face of the FBI, and he changed our country in a time of great lawlessness. Bank robbers were going from state to state becoming local heroes; he cleaned up all that mess. Got rid of the Commies and Bolshevik invasion while single handily creating this new federal police force. He was part of modern forensics and identifying everybody in our country. But then there were all those salacious rumors that you heard about him too. So it was very exciting to see somebody’s (Clint Eastwood) very specific…
