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Everyone Loves HAIR LOVE Animated Short
Behind the scenes of Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison‘s heartstrings pulling animated short about a little girl who needs her dad to help her tame her hair, while the mom’s in the hospital.
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PTC RECAP: SEE & BE SCENE:
Tinsel & Tine #PhillyCalendar #MiniRECAP Philadelphia Theatre Company invited me to their annual Sneak Peek at what they’re looking at for next year 2020/2021 46th Season! They call it SEE & BE SCENE where some of the best Philly actors come to perform a scene from 8 Plays up for consideration. Then the audience gets to vote on their favorites. Out of the eight, here’s the four I voted for: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN By Kimberly Belflower “The line between witch and heroine blurs in this post-#MeToo examination of power, literature, and sex education” THE FIRST DEEP BREATHby Philly native playwright Lee Edward Colston II(Set in West Philadelphia) –…
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Queen & Slim
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Lena Waithe (Boomerang (TV Series) wrote this movie from a suggestion by “A Million Little Pieces” author James Frey. She explains as black people we have to make a decision on who we show up as in life – Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. I think that’s a bit overstated as it doesn’t leave any gray area, or should I say, medium brown 😉 but in terms of character creation I see her point. Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) is a hard driving, cynical defense attorney. Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) is an easygoing, religious Costco employee. They meet on Tinder. She’d swiped left on him before, but…
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Brittany Runs a Marathon
Hilarious, outgoing and always up for a good time, New Yorker Brittany Forgler (Jillian Bell) is everybody’s best friend ― except maybe her own. At 27, her hard-partying ways, chronic underemployment and toxic relationships are catching up with her, but when she stops by a new doctor’s office to try to score some Adderall, she gets slapped with a prescription she never wanted: Get healthy. Too broke for a gym and too proud to ask for help, Brit is at a loss, until her seemingly together neighbor Catherine pushes her to lace up her Converse sneakers and run one sweaty block. The next day, she runs two. And soon, after…
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Marriage Story
When asked to name my favorite director, a lot of filmmakers come to mind; However, when I boil it down to what I enjoy most in a movie – Thick with good dialogue, humor and empathy found in the big, small, uncomfortable and hard moments of life, quirky characters and unexpected silly scenes – I have to name Noah Baumbach as my favorite, because he always finds a way to deliver all that and more. In terms of families in process, we experienced the dysfunction of “The Squid and The Whale” and a couple going through mid-life crises in “While We’re Young” and now “Marriage Story” which is not about…
