‘The Princess and The Frog’ (Review)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
My youngest cousin celebrated her second birthday on Sunday and my Aunt decided to do what my mother did to me when I was younger - subject her only girl to hundreds of Disney images till one day that girl gets sick of all things pink and under the sea. I went through a phase in high school where I hated the color pink because throughout most of middle and elementary school I was forced to live in a room painted the color of Pepto-Bismol and draped in all things Beauty and The… Read More
Coping with ‘Precious’
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Lee Daniels’ film Precious is dark, harrowing, and transformative, all those things it has been hyped up to be. It’s definitely worth people’s money, and a movie I will see again, not so much because it was extraordinary but because I must be cursed by the movie gods who made sure that when I saw Precious, the theater and my fellow moviegoers would be far more depressing than whatever tragedy was playing… Read More
So, are we going to die in 2012 or what?
Monday, October 19th, 2009“More Than a Game” is More Than a Bball Movie About Lebron James
Monday, October 5th, 2009
The last time I cried over anything basketball related was when the late great Lakers announcer Chick Hearn died and when Shaq was traded to the Miami Heat (I'm now a die-hard ex-Lakers fan because of that trade). On Friday, I saw the basketball documentary "More Than a Game", which I've unfairly dubbed, Bron Bron's movie,… Read More
