Film & Movie Archives
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The Library Bar Interview: YAYA DACOSTA (Big Words) (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor In my We’re the Millers post, I talked about the coincidence of the same things crossing your path from different places. I feel that way when it comes to this beautiful America’s Next Top Model turned actress, who is steadily making a name for herself in the biz – Yaya Alafia – although that name has changed from DaCosta to Alafia with her marriage to filmmaker Joshua Bee Alafia last June. The couple is happily expecting their first child. I first took note of Yaya in my post on the movie The Kids Are All Right (2010). And although she’d been in Take the Lead…
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Who Do I Have to Sleep With to Get a Stoli Martini:
BLUE JASMINERegardless of the fact that most people won't see it the way I do. They will see that this is a Tour de force for Cate Blanchett and an amazingly seamless, and authentically funny movie that will stand out among Wood Allen's prolific legacy...
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WE’RE THE MILLERS
This movie allows Jennifer Aniston to join the ranks of Stripper Stars - well known actresses who take on the role of playing a stripper: Natalie Portman (Closer), Demi Moore (Striptease), Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler), Halle Berry (The Last Boy Scot & Frankie and Alice) Jessica Alba (Sin City). I'm sure I'm missing some...
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Chopsticks straight up in bowl = death: THE WOLVERINE
Thankfully, all you really have to know to watch Hugh Jackman once again take on the role of Marvel Entertainment's ultimate anti-social hero - The Wolverine - is the basics. He's indestructible because of the Adamantium alloy that covers his insides from head to toe; and that he had it bad for the telepathic and telekinetic mutant Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who is presently dead until she rises again as The Phoenix.
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Just dip our balls in honey & stake us to an ant hill: RED 2
This time the movie opens not with Frank being bored with civilian life, instead it's his girlfriend Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) love interest from RED. The two are in COSTCO, Frank's picking up stuff for their BBQ dinner with Sarah absently munching on a jumbo snack bag of something, looking detached and vacant - trademark MLP.
