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Selah And The Spades
The film centers around a 17-year-old black female, Selah (Lovie Simone). She’s an A student who captains a spirit squad, and doesn’t have sex, but these things don’t make her a good girl. Good girls don’t deal drugs, and Selah is not only an experienced dope pusher at the prestigious boarding school she attends somewhere outside Philadelphia – she also runs a tight ship. Making certain the Spades are the most dominant school clicks or what they call “factions” around campus. There is a tenuous truce between Selah’s Spades and the other factions, which often hints of an interesting backstory from their sophomore year.
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Candi’s Corner: Interview with new Evil Dead Director Fede Alvarez
*Please note- if you have not seen the original Evil Dead movie and would like to see it before watching Fede Alvarez’s version, you will be slightly spoiled reading this interview! You’ve been warned. As my journey in the movie industry continues, from acting to writing to reviewing, I find myself talking to the most interesting of people. However, I’ve met very few, where I can see in their eyes and from their body language and facial expressions, the look of cynicism. Many are passionate, yet because the odds seem very much not in their favor in this merciless business, you begin to notice more of the jaded, the cynical,…
