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Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas Prize Pack Giveaway
Time for another holiday Tinsel & Tine Giveaway – Featuring (2) A Madea Christmas Promo Prize Packs and 1 Grand Prize 5 Madea DVD’s including: MADEA’S CLASS REUNION MADEA GOES TO JAIL MADEA’S FAMILY REUNION MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY Enter to win using Rafflecopter below: a Rafflecopter giveaway While You’re Here Check Out These Recent Posts Spike Lee’s Oldboy Philly Food Truck – Dia Doce Cupcakes Philly Film, Food & Events Blog
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(Philly) FREE SCREENING PASSES: GRUDGE MATCH (starring Sylvester Stallone & Robert De Niro)
Post Update 8/29/2016 – I’m not sure why, but suddenly this post from 2013 became a high traffic page. If you did a search for free screening passes and want to see movies in preview in Philly then sign up for Tinsel & Tine’s newsletter below: NEWSLETTER Subscribe for Free Screening Passes & Food Related Giveaways Win Passes to See Grudge Match before it hits theaters Christmas Day! Tinsel & Tine has 25 (admit two) Gofobo codes for the Grudge Match Preview Screening at The Prince Theater 7:30pm on Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Use the Rafflecopter widget below and Enter to Win! Note: Arrive Early! Screening passes do NOT…
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The Happy Sad – LeRoy McClain Interview
So here’s yet another coincidence, I saw the film The Happy Sad during QFEST (Philly’s LGBT film festival) and went to the after party, where I talked to one of the stars of the movie LeRoy McClain. I remember thinking, I should be interviewing him, but it’s too loud in here and I’m sure he just wants to chill right now. I started to give him my card and ask him to contact me later for an interview, but I let the moment pass. Skip to a month later, my sister Lauren who’s a Media & Cultural Trend Analyst (see website), happens to socially meet Timothy Yates who runs public…
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Just a Taste: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Aging – without proper retirement funds, without a spouse, needing a hip replacement, feeling too old to be desirable, put out to pasture, needing closure with a person you fell in love with over 40 years ago. These are all rather depressing subjects; yet, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is anything but depressing. It’s lively, humorous and quick-witted. Although you’d expect nothing less from such a stellar cast of veterans: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and Ronald Pickup. Each plays a character who has reached an advanced stage in their life where they are in need of a change of…
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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…
