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Concrete Cowboy w/ Ricky Staub, Caleb McLaughlin Interview
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview CONCRETE COWBOY The film starts in Detroit where Cole (McLaughlin) has gotten in trouble for fighting in school once again. His mother picks him up with his bags packed (trash bags that is) and tells him she's driving him to his father in Philadelphia. Caleb, 15 years-old, has not maintained a relationship with his father Harp (Idris Elba) over the 10 years since his mother up and moved them to Detroit...
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Empire Talk Week 7: Our Dancing Days (FoxTV)
Quick Recap/Highlights and Around the Web with Empire Note:embedded tweets will not be entirely visible to those receiving Tinsel & Tine via RSS Feed. [ Also see “The Duff” Mini Review below] “Empire continues to do the seemingly impossible. Fox’s hip-hop drama rose yet again in the ratings Wednesday night. The show had 11.9 million viewers and 4.7 rating among adults 18-49. That’s just a tenth of a point higher than last week’s record, but still—it’s yet another gain. The show had already broken a 23-year-old broadcast ratings record last week by growing its viewership its first five weeks in a row.“ READ MORE EW.com This is awesome! Both Terrence…
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Empire Talk Week 5: Dangerous Bonds (FoxTV)
7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 5 of EMPIRE “Dangerous Bonds” Directed by John Singleton Viewers were going crazy tweeting about the end of this week’s episode. Cookie’s $5000 hasty “purchase” is going to have big consequences! 1. One of the great things about this show, the format and music element makes it easy to have a slew of cameo appearances without it seeming overdone. This week Anthony Hamilton serenaded Anika while Lucious proposed marriage (Did you see that ROCK!?). Only thing is, the proposal looks to be yet another strategic Lucious Lyons move as he needs a written clean bill of health to give to the insurance company, before Empire…
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Empire Talk Week 3: The Devil Quotes Scripture (FoxTV)
This week Empire was directed by Sanaa Hamri and gave us three guest appearances: Gladys Knight sung at Bunkie’s funeral in Philadelphia. Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Puma, a former songwriter turned rancher, who’s always held a soft spot for Cookie (Taraiji P. Henson). And Naomi Campbell as Camilla the Cougar, who we find out has been sleeping with young Hakeem (Bryshere Gray). (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); Post by Lauren DeLisa. 7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 3 of EMPIRE “The Devil Quotes Scripture” 1. Cookie almost got baked, when…
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Commentary – Precious & Interview with Lee Daniels
LEE DANIELS IN PHILADELPHIA – PRECIOUS Q&A Lee Daniel’s Film Precious is uncomfortable in the raw injustice of this young girl’s life and all she must endure. The underlying premise of the film does speak to the prejudice in all of us, but the story is her’s and her’s alone- Clareece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe). She is a dark-skinned, hugely overweight, 16 year-old, illiterate girl, who is able to dream of having a “light skinned” boyfriend and being totally fabulous, despite her life of being repeatedly raped by her father, and abused physically and mentally, but her jealous mother (Mo’Nique). Both Gabby and Mo’ Nique have turned in Oscar…
