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Throwing Produce is a Foodie Moment: Kevin Hart interview – RIDE ALONG
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor This was my first opportunity to come face to face with Philly’s own Kevin Hart! It took place at the red carpet premiere of Ride Along, his new buddy/action/cop comedy co-starring Ice Cube. Ride Along is directed by Tim Story (Barber Shop, Think Like A Man) it’s about a security guard, Ben (Kevin Hart) who’s in love with a really cute sistah (Tika Sumpter) and sister to police detective James Payton (Ice Cube). Payton thinks his sister could do much, much better than Ben, even though Ben just got his acceptance letter to join the police academy. This fact does give Payton the idea of…
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HER
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor LOVE TECHNOLOGY STYLE – HER Every year there’s that film that critics decide to laud and it gets agreed upon this is the one to tell audiences to see – this year that movie is “her“, a film by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are) a filmmaker who seems to be in the inner circle when it comes to praise, even from the harshest critics. I suppose I sound like I’m about to disagree with their choice – ummm…, well, no. I wouldn’t disagree with the fact that Her is very creative with an interesting concept and opens up good…
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THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter (Ben Stiller) is an exceedingly regular kinda guy, with 15 years at Life Magazine, working with photo negatives in a dark archival room, along side a nice, but overweight, equally dorky guy (Adrian Martinez). Like most of us who are still looking for love in our late 30’s and 40’s, we find ourselves spending a lot of time with siblings and our parents, and in my case a 70 year-old aunt. In Walter’s case a sister (Kathryn Hahn) still holding on to low level acting aspirations and a mother (Shirley MacLaine) who needs help moving into a…
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Tribeca Film: S#X ACTS
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Israeli filmmaker Jonathan Gurfinkel’s and writer Rona Segal have created a film that feels more like a documentary exposing the cavalier relationship many teens and young adults have with sex. It would seem young women around the world give out BJ’s and hand jobs like it means nothing. If S#X ACTS weren’t in subtitles (Hebrew), I would have sworn the movie was set in a suburb of The United States. Gili (Sivan Levy) is an attractive girl of about 16 or 17, she’s not traditionally pretty, but definitely appealing, like a cheaper version of a young Marion Cotillard. The film begins with Gili taking selfies,…
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Don’t Ask Him to Sing for His Supper By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor This is the winter of Llewyn Davis’ (Oscar Isaac) discontent. He’s got no money, no coat, no place to live and no one really likes him much. He’s got some charm and sex appeal, he can sing and play guitar, but he’s one of these people who speaks first and thinks later and has little regard for the consequences of his actions, until after his words and/or actions make trouble for him. Still, he’s not nearly as bad as Jean (Carey Mulligan) the self-righteous, singing girlfriend of a friend (Justin Timberlake) tells him he is. With Inside…
