Great Acting!!

One great actor in my opinion would be Denzel Washington. He's a man that can be the lead character in just about any type of role. He has been one of Hollywood's greatest actors for the past two decades.

He has been in multiple movies and has many awards. He one and Oscar for his performance in Training Day when he played a crocked cop named Detective Alonzo Harris. He also won an academy award for Best supporting actor in 1991's Glory, where he played a runaway slave who became a soldier Pvt. Trip.

In all of his roles even ones where he played famous people such as Malcolm X, Steve Biko, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Coach Herman Boone Denzel Washington has always been able to bring tons of emotion to his characters. He is one outstanding actor who makes the best out of all the characters he has ever played.

He is a charmer that's for sure, and every one knows his name Denzel. His acting abilities are superb. He has a smile that mesmerizes women every where. His personality is smooth and subtle.

Head of State Trailer

Head of State

It's about time that the Movie Head of State became a reality! OBAMA!

But seriously the movie Head of State was about the United States having its first Black President. Mays Gilliam who was played by Chris Rock, and Bernie Mac was Gilliam's over bearing, insensitive, abusive, but knowledgeable older brother Mitch Gilliam.

The combo of comedic heavy weights paved the way for a hilarious movie. There were all types of antics involving Rock trying to avoid assassination and trying to have him avoid being true to himself. Rocks character was from the streets of D.C. and was chosen so he could loose the elections and make it easier for another Democrat to fun for office.

The movie is full a crazy scenarios where Rock changes his imagine from that of someone dressed in a suit and tie to a man wearing a RocaWear jean suit with timberland boots and big platinum chains. Even his ad campaign commercials had video vixens and a Dj.

The movie was funny and entertaining, but it also did have speeches in it that would make the audience think about policies in the country, and how some may need to be changed.

CB4 n' Don't Be a Menace

What's happened? Where did movies like CB4 short for Cell Block 4 and Don't be a Menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood movies go? These movies may be classics in a category of their own. A category I'm going to name Hood Classics... Since they're movies that every one has seen in the "hood", they bring a funny side to "the harsh reality of the hood."

Sometimes during certain parts of the movie there are serious scenes that try to convince audience members that acting a certain way is wrong, and that people should take responsibility for their actions. Just sometimes you can forget what was trying to be a social commentary on peoples lifestyles when a baby with head the size of a mans complete with facial hair yells "Message" from its crib.

Also some actors had gained great fame from playing rolls like MC Gusto, who was played by a young Chris Rock in CB4. Also the Wayan's brothers Shawn and Marlon had leading roles in Don't be a menace.

There needs to be a new "Hood Classic", something like CB4 which poked fun at the west coast group N.W.A. changing one of their hits Straight Outta Compton into Straight Outta Lowcash. These type of movies were just fun to watch because they were so ridiculous and if you know exactly who and what situations people are making fun of then the movie becomes very memorable.

My favorite scene is from Don't Be a Menace was when Bernie Mac is mimicking a cop from the movie Boyz N the Hood. A cop who was an African-American and was overly dramatic with how much he hated things that were Black.

We need a new hood classic movie, especially now that the music style and fashion style has changed and how there was a dance craze going on for years with artist like Soulja Boy tell 'em, and Dem Franchize Boyz.

Sexual Exploitation of Women in Film: Princess And The Frog

A New Princess!

A new Disney movie! Awesome! The Princess And The Frog. A new princess, too! In more ways than one!

We meet "Princess" Tiana who doesn't want a prince. She doesn't want true love. She's an aspiring entrepenuer. Yes, independent female... workaholic... a waitress, in the '20's. Yes... 1920's!

Like most "princesses", she is fatherless. But... it's her mother who wants her to meet prince charming... her mother wants her to dance into her "happily ever after"... her mother wants her to become a princess. She wants grandkids after all!


Tiana, our New Orleans "princess", has a different dream. A dream she shared with her father. To own their own restaurant. Wow! What a twist from our typical princesses, huh? Too bad she turns into a frog.


Then, of course the fairy tale kicks in. "Mama Odie" tries to help the princess and prince frogs discover what's most important. (Mama Odie is only one of the many magnificent characters of the film.) Learning a valuable lesson is the only way the frogs can become human again.

What a movie! The Princess And The Frog goes beyond entertaining value. The "New Orleans flavor" is delightful... from the music and characters, to the production and quality. A fairytale "must see" for all!

As for female sexual exploitation? Watch the movie, you be the judge!

30 Second Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes

This movie can best be described in three words...
"eh, it's alright."

The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes, with Jude Law as his trusty sidekick Watson. The duo actually work very well together and have quite a bit of chemistry.

The only problem is that their on screen time is lost in the sometimes overly confusing plot.

Though the movie is still entertaining, viewers can get the sense that the makers of this movie tried to pack as much stuff into this film as humanly possible.

In the end it's a good movie, but not great.

C+


The Good: Good cast and action packed.
The Bad: A little too long and a little too much.
The Ugly: Why is London always so dreary?

Last Note: This movie would have been better if it were starring...
Kim Young.

- Matt

This movie gets a B-/B from me for multiple reasons. The first is that the movie itself as a whole is pretty decent the plot line could have been more developed along with character development and character relations, but over all it was a movie that I enjoyed watching.

The affects in the movie were really good. This isn't the 3-D version I'm talking about but the regular movie. I would get into details about characters that were made out of special effects but I don't want to tell people who is in the movie. Lets just say her character moved very well for half of her body begin snake-like.

My only complaint it that some of the God's on Olympus I feel didn't play as big a role as they could have. Also their relationships with one another weren't developed as best they could be.

I recommend going to see Clash of the Titans. Its pretty good movie with good action scenes. It might be even better in 3-D but I guess I have to see that for myself.

Couples Retreat: WATCH IT TWICE!!!

Here is an example of a movie that NEEDS to be watched twice. The first time I watched Couples Retreat, I put it in my "stupid" movie file. I later decided to give it one more try, only this time I watched it with two guys. It was then and only then that I realized the true hilariousness of this film.

The movie begins with a couple, Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell), who is considering divorce begging their friends, three other couples, to go away on a vacation that could essentially save their marriage. The friends reluctantly give in, deciding that a relaxing vaction would be a perfect opportunity to sleep-in, lay out, and enjoy doing nothing.

Upon their arrival at the resort, they are sent to the WEST side of the Eden Resort, other known as the couples side. That night, the Eden's host, Sctanley (Peter Serafinowicz ) informs the couples that they have to engage in couples therapy or they will be sent home!

They spend the next six days enduring "expert" Marcel's (Jean Reano) odd methods of couples therapy, which ultimate will make or break their relationships.

This movie... is hilarious is you watch it with the right people.

Other couples include:

Dave (Vince Vaughn) and Ronnie (Malin Akerman)

Joey (Jon Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin Davis); and

Shane (Faizon Love) and Trudy (Kali Hawk).

The most hilarious of characters goes to (Carlos Ponce) who plays Salvadore, the sexy, muscular yoga instructor who spends his days in a speedo.

This movie must be watched at least twice to be appreciated! Overall, B+!! :)

The New Karate Kid?

The 1984 classic "The Karate Kid" starring Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio is going to be remade with Jackie Chan and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith.

I don't think I'm going to be a fan of the remake. The 84 Karate Kid was one of my favorite movies as a kid and then the other 2 Karate kid's after were still pretty good, well I mean in a little kids eyes.

I just don't know how well the remake of the original will be. It's going to be hard task to come up with a line that every one knows like " wax on wax off ".

This is one movie that I think the remake just wont live up to the expectations of the original and its just going to be a let down for people who have seen the original.

Then also Mr. Miyagi was Japanese and now Mr. Han or Jackie Chan is Chinese, so what are Asian material interchangeable? I just think that the original Karate Kid movies were great the way they were, but that's just me.

Sexual Exploitation of Women in Film: Listen to Disney

When you looked at "Is Disney Guilty Too" did you also listen? Snow White sings "whistle while you work." She's joyful and happy. Doing laundry, washing dishes, and cleaning.... Really!

She says she thinks the filthy cottage of the dwarfs belongs to children. If she cleans it, she thinks they'll let her stay. They do, of course. They're seven bachelors, why not? At first, Grumpy hesitates... then he discovers she can cook... she can stay.

But don't worry, Snow White has lots of friends. You know, birds, mice... cute, little, fuzzy forest creatures. They palled around with most of the old Disney girls like Snow White and Cinderella.

These girls were cut off from society. Both missing fathers. Both had evil stepmothers. Both "objectified". Well, that was the old Disney. Those were the times. I loved Disney movies then, love them now. They were imaginative and creative.

Things have changed for women. Things changed at Disney, too!

Years later Ursula, the sea witch from The Little Mermaid, sets things straight. She tells Arial, "Don't underestimate the importance of body language." She says, "The men out there don't like a lot of blabber...it's she who holds her tongue who gets a man."

Hollywood's Biggest Crime: Remakes

I just want to ask one simple question. If a movie is good enough to be a classic, why is it then remade it to something so bad that it shouldn't even be shown at 3 in the morning on basic cable? It seems like every movie I have ever liked has now been remade, or is going to be remade.


Here is a list of the crimes against humanity:

• Halloween- The original was a classic. It was suspenseful, and had a perfect amount of violence and terror to make it a great horror movie.

The Rob Zombie remake was just the opposite. All he did was add more violence, take out the suspense, and basically ruin the original for me.

• The Day the Earth Stood Still- The original is masterpiece. For being made in 1951, it is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time.

The Keanu Reeves remake is just, just...just bad.

• High Noon- A great western that had suspense and had a great shootout ending.

The made for TV remake made me sit there and just think...why!?!

• Psycho- The Alfred Hitchcock original was full of mystery and for it's time was very edgy.

The remake was more like a shot for shot redo which begs the question, if your going to watch Psycho, why not just watch the original?

These are just a few but there are hundreds of remakes out there, with most of them being signifigantly worse than the original.

-Matt