‘Furious’ franchise keeps cranking out high-quality action
“How did they do those stunts?” is the first question that comes to mind when one thinks about the mega blockbusters that are the Fast …
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‘Get Hard’ plays on race bias
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATTI PERRET One look at the advertisements of Get Hard and it’s easy to see it as a racist attempt at comedy …
Girl power deliciously comes to forefront in ‘Insurgent’
As a child born in the early 1980s, I consider myself an older millennial and quite lucky. I know what it’s like to play outside …
Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, Vader and gang reunite for new exhibit
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press SEATTLE — The creators of a new traveling exhibit on the costumes of Star Wars are hoping to gather …
New ‘Cinderella’ excels with old-fashioned charm
PHOTO COURTESY OF MOVIEPILOT.COM By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer In this age of revisionist, modernized Disney fairytales, where we’ve learned that some of …
Clunky plotline + bad direction = awful ‘Chappie’
PHOTOS COURTESY OF STEPHANIE BLOMKAMP It is with pleasure that I report that the film idiotically titled Chappie has met my expectations. I expected a …
Will Smith ‘quiets the warrior,’ refocuses with ‘Focus’
PHOTO COURTESY OF collider.com By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES — Things started to come into focus for Will Smith when After …
50 shades of green: How studio roped men into seeing ‘Grey’
PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHUCK ZLOTNICK/UNIVERSAL PICTURES By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES — When Universal bumped Fifty Shades of Grey from August …
‘Fifty Shades’ falls flat
PHOTOS COURTESY OF WALLLPAPERUP & IBTIMES.COM As script to screen goes, it’s not easy adapting a beloved story into something that rewards your visual …
Miamian’s film premiers at Pan African Film Festival
PHOTO Courtesy of com.miami.edu MIAMI — The curtain rises for Haitian American filmmaker Rachelle Salnave, as her second feature documentary La Belle Vie: The Good …