The story I tell most often when asked for a Hollywood anecdote is when I chose to work with a still up and coming Issa Rae over the fried chicken commercial my agent at the time tried to talk me into. It’s funny, it’s a name my people recognize, it’s a good anecdote. As this […]
‘Battle of the Sexes’ sits in a weird spot. It’s a fun movie while not a straight up comedy; it covers a serious topic while also not being too heavy handed about it. I think that’s why I enjoyed a lot of its individual parts more than I liked the movie as a whole. […]
Against all odds, Damien Chazelle has made a contemporary musical. ‘La La Land’ is a wonderful piece of pop escapism. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are ‘the Girl’ and ‘the Boy’ in this meet cute about a wannabe actress and a stubborn jazz musician and their desires to make it big in the City […]
CHRIS: And here to present the next two awards, here is Academy Award nominee Emma Stone, and the Associate Producer of ‘Trojan War,’ Malik Aziz! (audience applause as they take the stage) EMMA: An outlaw trying to survive in a room of seven Hateful men. A woman supporting and coming to grips with her husband’s […]
Here are the nominees for Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood Laura Dern – Wild Keira Knightley – the Imitation Game Emma Stone – Birdman Meryl Streep – Into the Woods Who Should Win: Hm. Meryl is the definition of ‘legacy nominations’, I felt like Laura Dern’s character was more important to the story […]
‘You confuse love with admiration.’ Can I stop right there? Please? Alright, I’ll write a full review… No surprise why so many actors/artists/Hollywood types love this one. The original Dark Knight, Michael Keaton, stars as a past his prime movie star who tries to return to relevancy by staging a Broadway play. The rest of […]
Wilson Pickett did a cover of ‘Hey Jude’? Really? How do I not have any memory of this? Well, it sounds like a great idea on paper, let’s taken a listen… (clicking Play…) (GASP!!!) (Creative Adrenaline Rush!!!) (acting out and writing the sequence Kerry Washington throws my character and my trumpet out in the […]
As this post is about me as a writer, let me do a solid to start. If you’re a blog writer, screenwriter, joke writer, or a like minded member of our ilk, what’s the dreaded word no one wants to hear or be accused of? Stealing. There’s no foolproof method of course, but I […]
Count me among the many whose face curled up in disgust as soon as I heard the re was a movie about black folks called ‘The Help’. I mean, really? That was the best title they could come up with? There’s a very short list of actors at this point who I would consider ‘dream […]
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