Another Gay Movie, directed by Todd Stephens (and also the one who wrote the screenplay) and starring Michael Carbonaro, follows the line of Scary Movie films by spoofing, American Pie. This time, as the title leads you to beleive, it takes on a decidedly homosexual theme and does so by incorporating scences from other gay-themed films.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saturday, August 01, 2009
The Color Purple: A Movie Review
Read my entire published review here.
The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg, chronicles the struggles of a black southern woman growing up in the early 1900’s in a world riddled with prejudice, sexism and poverty. Whoppie Goldberg, in her first leading role, commands a list of quality performers.
Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Maya Angelou are all members of this 1984 drama, making it one of the first feature films with the majority of its cast to be African American, to transcend the racial lines and be considered a film worthy of Academy recognition. This being said, though Goldberg clearly commanded this stellar cast of actors, she was only nominated as ‘Best SUPPORTING Actress’ for her role.
The movie starts out in a lovely field of purple, where two girls are playing. They are playing the stereotypical ‘patty-cake’ game as done by most young children. The bright sun and field of purple help give a since of playfulness and innocence, and as the faces of the children are the only things that are shown, the two run to a clearing where their bodies are exposed, as well as their innocence.. We see that one of the children, Celie is with child.
The innocence is immediately taken away, which a fitting seg-way into the next scene is with is dark and dreary, of her giving birth to her child, which is immediately taken away by her father. The shocking truths do not end there. It just gets worse from this moment on. In the next few things, the story of Celie unfolds.
We quickly find out that her child that she had given birth to was her father’s child and sold away to family that was not able to have children. A suitor visits the home, in hopes of marrying Nettie, Celie’s younger and prettier sister, but Celie’s father is non too plus in getting rid of Celie first, and gives his consent to have her married, to a man how did not love her.
Read my entire published review here.
The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg, chronicles the struggles of a black southern woman growing up in the early 1900’s in a world riddled with prejudice, sexism and poverty. Whoppie Goldberg, in her first leading role, commands a list of quality performers.
Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Maya Angelou are all members of this 1984 drama, making it one of the first feature films with the majority of its cast to be African American, to transcend the racial lines and be considered a film worthy of Academy recognition. This being said, though Goldberg clearly commanded this stellar cast of actors, she was only nominated as ‘Best SUPPORTING Actress’ for her role.
The movie starts out in a lovely field of purple, where two girls are playing. They are playing the stereotypical ‘patty-cake’ game as done by most young children. The bright sun and field of purple help give a since of playfulness and innocence, and as the faces of the children are the only things that are shown, the two run to a clearing where their bodies are exposed, as well as their innocence.. We see that one of the children, Celie is with child.
The innocence is immediately taken away, which a fitting seg-way into the next scene is with is dark and dreary, of her giving birth to her child, which is immediately taken away by her father. The shocking truths do not end there. It just gets worse from this moment on. In the next few things, the story of Celie unfolds.
We quickly find out that her child that she had given birth to was her father’s child and sold away to family that was not able to have children. A suitor visits the home, in hopes of marrying Nettie, Celie’s younger and prettier sister, but Celie’s father is non too plus in getting rid of Celie first, and gives his consent to have her married, to a man how did not love her.
Read my entire published review here.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Only Just A Week Away
I last installment of the the Harry Potter series The Half Blood Prince will be out in just a few days and I plan to be front and center.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Cincinnati Indie Film: Three Barbecues
I don't know about you, but I plan to stay as warm as possible this weekend. One of my big weekend plans will be to catch up on watching the movies on my Netflix list.
If you plan to do the same, one movie I would suggest is Three Barbecues.
I watched this movie a few nights ago and I would definitely suggest it if you fall into one of the following categories:
1. A lover of kitchy indie films
2. Amazed by the talent that resides here in the Qeen City
3. In the mood for a not so serious flick
4. A lover of any film made this century depicting the 1950's
Though this film starts a bit slow and at first the premise is a bit difficult to surmise, this will all fall to the waist side as you start to recognize Cincinnati scenes carpeting the background and begin to view some local celebrities (Jean-Robert and Quasi, just to name a few).
My interest peaked during the opening credits when I saw the name of a neighbor of mine who worked as one of the producers of the Indie film, but it wasn't until I saw this same neighbor in the film, undulating in a deviled egg costume(I know...this is a must see). Needless to say, once i saw this, he was immediately phoned...lol.
Anyway,
This is a great lazy Saturday afternoon film, and that great part about this film is that it was all filmed in the Queen city.
If you plan to do the same, one movie I would suggest is Three Barbecues.
I watched this movie a few nights ago and I would definitely suggest it if you fall into one of the following categories:
1. A lover of kitchy indie films
2. Amazed by the talent that resides here in the Qeen City
3. In the mood for a not so serious flick
4. A lover of any film made this century depicting the 1950's
Though this film starts a bit slow and at first the premise is a bit difficult to surmise, this will all fall to the waist side as you start to recognize Cincinnati scenes carpeting the background and begin to view some local celebrities (Jean-Robert and Quasi, just to name a few).
My interest peaked during the opening credits when I saw the name of a neighbor of mine who worked as one of the producers of the Indie film, but it wasn't until I saw this same neighbor in the film, undulating in a deviled egg costume(I know...this is a must see). Needless to say, once i saw this, he was immediately phoned...lol.
Anyway,
This is a great lazy Saturday afternoon film, and that great part about this film is that it was all filmed in the Queen city.
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