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Rihanna 777 Tour: The Documentary

By Ann Mamie | May 6, 2013 | Music, Reviews, Trailers | No comments

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The documentary for Rihanna’s November 2012 777 tour aired today on Fox. Dozens of journalists and contest-winning fans pack into a 777 airliner to accompany Rihanna on the 7 day, 7 city, 7 concert around-the-world tour.

Not a bad way to promote her 7th album: Unapologetic.

The group hop to Mexico City, Toronto, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and London, before the final show in New York.

A snippet from each show includes performances of hits like Phresh Off the Runway, Umbrella, Stay, and Diamond. Rihanna says in the documentary, “I really love making music. I enjoy it.”

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Why She Can’t Resist and the Wrath of God – Temptation, by Tyler Perry

By Ben Daité | March 31, 2013 | Film, Reviews | No comments

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Written and directed by Tyler Perry; director of photography, Alexander Gruszynski; edited by Maysie Hoy; music by Aaron Zigman; production design by Eloise C. Stammerjohn; costumes by Johnetta Boone; produced by Mr. Perry, Paul Hall and Ozzie Areu; released by Lionsgate. Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes.
WITH: Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Judith), Lance Gross (Brice), Kim Kardashian (Ava), Vanessa Williams (Janice), Robbie Jones (Harley), Renée Taylor (Ms. Waco Chapman), Ella Joyce (Sarah) and Brandy Norwood (Melinda).

The movie ‘polymath’ Tyler Perry has stepped up to the pulpit in his new Temptation. This film is perhaps Tyler Perry’s biggest stamp on his belief in conservative marriage and family structure.

There’s no doubt that Tyler Perry’s work has long proclaimed religion, thrusting Christian principles at the center of most of his films and triumphantly upholding those value systems in his movies.

But perhaps never have those biases been entrenched more so than in this floppy fable he has under his eloquent erudition decided single-handedly to call, “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor.”

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America’s Forgotten Black Cowboys of the Old West

By Ben Daité | March 22, 2013 | Film, Reviews | 1 Comment

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Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning Western, Django Unchained, is one of relatively few Hollywood films depicting a black cowboy. In reality there were many, some of whose stories were borrowed for films starring white actors.

The most common image of the cowboy is a gun-toting, boot-wearing, white man – like John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood.

But the Hollywood portrayal of the Wild West is a whitewashed version of the reality. It is thought, by very conservative estimates, that about a quarter of all cowboys were black.

Like many people, Jim Austin – a college-educated, 45-year-old businessman – who hadn’t heard about the black presence in the Old West was flabbergasted at the truth.

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VH1′s ‘Black Ink Crew’ Spotlights A Black-Owned and Operated Business

By Ann Mamie | February 20, 2013 | Reviews, Trailers, TV | 9 Comments

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VH1’s Black Ink Crew is yet another reality TV show, but one that depicts a slice of life rarely seen in black programs – one that is both entrepreneurial and wildly creative.

Black Ink is an African American-owned and operated tattoo parlor in Harlem, NY. The hour-long docu-series Black Ink Crew follows the lives of Black Ink workers, Ceaser, Dutchess, Alex, Sassy, Puma, and O’ Shit, who go by their street names, of course. (Unless you thought someone’s parents would really name them O’Shit.)

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‘Head Games’: Will Brain Injury Change Sports?

By Ann Mamie | February 12, 2013 | Film, Reviews, Trailers | No comments

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How many hits to your head does it take to cause serious brain damage? If you knew, would it change anything?

These are questions explored in the Steve James-directed documentary Head Games (2012). The documentary follows former Harvard football standout turned WWE pro wrestler turned Boston University researcher Chris Nowinski, who after 19 years of playing sports that brought persistent hits to his brain, now engages in the research behind the brain injuries. Along the way, we meet other researchers, athletes, coaches, and specialists who have become entangled with the impact of brain concussions, either by profession or personal experience.

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‘Yelling to The Sky’ (2011): A Queens, NY Coming of Age

By Ann Mamie | January 27, 2013 | Film, Reviews, Trailers | 1 Comment

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Life ain’t too sweet for Sweetness O’Hara (Zoe Kravitz).

Adolescence is supposed to be an age of innocence where teenagers can be careless and carefree and responsible parents will act, well, responsibly. But for many teens especially those of the urban inner-city upbringing, circumstances force an early exit out of adolescence and a premature entrance into lifestyles of the post PG-13.

In Yelling to the Sky, c’est la vie for Queens-bred Sweetness.

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‘Lincoln 2012′ – The Ugly Paternalistic Lies

By Ben Daité | January 12, 2013 | Film, Reviews | 1 Comment

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In many ways I am glad that this misfit of a film is devoid of any entertainment value. Hence, I am not afraid it will dilute the memory of the many slaves who fought and died for freedom either on their own or with white folks who believed in the common humanity of man.

I am sure that not many outside the circles of the Lincoln Fan Club would give a rat’s ass about this film. It is boring, soporific and goodness if you didn’t believe vampires existed, see this set in 1868 – the cold absence of sunlight might just change your mind.

vamlincolnLincoln is an idealism of the history behind the abolition movement. And if this romanticism is done in order to feed into the energy of the larger framework of civil rights for Gays, Women and other Minority groups today, then I can perhaps comprehend the goal.

However, I fail to understand all of its other intentions.

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‘Snow on tha Bluff’ Shows a Tougher Atlanta

By Ann Mamie | January 10, 2013 | Film, Reviews, Trailers | 10 Comments

snowonthabluffSnow on tha Bluff creeps from outside of the hood looking in, as three college students venture out of their comfort zones and into the hood – armed with all the fears, urban legends, and preconceptions of the ghetto on their sleeves. The students fear being carjacked in downtown Atlanta, but their desire to capture the real-life hood on camera and get some drugs while they’re at it, outweighs their fears. So in they go, fingers crossed and wearing nervous middle class smiles, silently reassuring themselves that nothing will go down.

They meet Curtis Snow on the street corner, who at first, seems like a pleasant enough drug dealer. Curtis hustles his way into their car and in a matter of minutes, their fears are realized when he robs them of their money and video camera, though the students do manage to escape with their health and car in tact.

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Top Film Headlines From 2012

By Ann Mamie | December 31, 2012 | Film, Lists, Reviews | 1 Comment

The year 2012 brought an eclectic mix of films from both the independent and mainstream worlds. Here are Filmclique’s top headlines from 2012:

* Millions of White People Voluntarily Watch A Black Slave Movie

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* Three Black Women Get Along Well Enough To Form a Girl Group

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Django Unchained – The Black, The Beautiful & Ev’thing Ugly

By Ben Daité | December 27, 2012 | Film, Reviews | 4 Comments

*** NO SPOILERS ***

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American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors [Were] Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.

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To which Prof. Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University & MSNBC responds (paraphrased):

Can’t be judging my book before you’ve read it.

This film on slavery in America is going down as a classic, whether you like it or not, and Spike Lee would have had something to do with it; because he came out and bashed it in his oftentimes bleeding emotions.

Quentin Tarantino may be ‘toying with Spike’s emotions’ but whether they are real or not, I hope it is not due to a reluctance to accept Tarantino, a white man, as a apt director of this mix of Blaxploitation and the Pastafied Western genre.

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‘Life of Pi’ – A Scintillating Enchantment

By Ben Daité | December 8, 2012 | Film, News, Reviews | 1 Comment

Ang Lee wants to honor Yann Martel’s tone in the prize-winning 2001 novel, “Life of Pi,” as well as his narrative strategy, but perhaps filmmakers should stop using India as a source of higher spirituality — it’s a genteel form of exploitation and one that’s increasingly misleading. Where is the surging, high-tech, entrepreneurial narrative of the past twenty years?

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Welcome to Pi’s Ark! and soon enough Pi and a four hundred and fifty pound Bengal Tiger – a digital beast – are the only passengers aboard a safety boat in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

Pi’s family owned a zoo and had decided to move with some of the animals from India to Canada. But a storm wrecks the old Japanese freighter carrying them. The animals are washed out of the hold and flail around in the tumultuous seas. Pi falls into a lifeboat, and popping out from beneath a canvas covering, a tiger who owing to a clerical error, would be called Richard Parker.

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Alex Cross, 2012 – Should You Stay Home?

By Ben Daité | November 7, 2012 | Film, Reviews | No comments

A homicide detective, played by Tyler Perry, is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits in Alex Cross. He tangles with a ferociously skilled serial killer who specializes in torture and pain.

Alex Cross is a film that is loosely based on James Patterson’s 12th novel, Cross, featuring the PhD-totting forensic psychologist. It seems to have missed the mark with most critics, however. For me, it has managed to seize quite an astonishing 4.8/10 rating on IMDB as of today – whichever way you look at it.

But indeed, “watching Tyler Perry strain his way through Alex Cross”, says Peter Debruge of Variety, was painful to behold. “The cross-dressing Madea seemed out of his depth playing the hard-boiled detective made famous by Morgan Freeman in Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls.”

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