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Megan Good attended the LA premiere of her new movie, Saw V. It’s out this Friday, and is one of Megan’s biggest role to date.
Across the pond, Thandie Newton attended the premiere of ‘Rachel Getting Married’ during the 52nd annual London Film Festival.
Ms. Newton looked rather stunning. She also has a new movie out in the US called RocknRolla; rapper Ludacris is featured in this movie as well.
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Beyonce is on the set of her new film, Cadillac Records, about the life of soulful jazz singer Etta James. I love Etta James and I’m excited about this film. Beyonce has some big shoes to fill and I hope she has the acting skills to pull this off. Etta James has a lot of spunk and spirit. Here’s what Mrs. Etta James had to say about Beyonce starring in the film:
“It’s a privilege and an honor to have somebody like that girl. I don’t think she looks like me, but that’s all right. They can fix that up.”
“I have my own way of putting those songs over, and I was just wondering if Beyoncé could, and my son said, ‘They’re thinking about how she looks, but mama, she can really sing!’”
“I wasn’t as bourgie as she is, she’s bourgeois. She knows how to be a lady, she’s like a model. I wasn’t like that… I smoked in the bathroom in school, I was kinda arrogant, so those are some of the things I would want to tell her.”
Is it me, or do women with curves seem healthier and more beautiful? I don’t understand this stick thin craze going in Hollywood, but it’s definitely needs a backlash, and that’s coming from someone who is thin. I think men want women with some meat on their bones. Anyway, check out Raven-Symone heating up the red-carpet for the premier her new film, College Raod Trip, also starring Martin Lawrence. I must add, that I’m not feeling the hair…
Excerpt from Oprah.com:
Inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson—played by Denzel Washington—a brilliant but volatile debate coach who uses the power of words to shape a group of students into a historically elite debate team. A controversial figure, Professor Tolson challenged the social mores of the 1930s and was under constant fire for his unconventional and ferocious teaching methods, as well as his radical political views.
In their pursuit for excellence, Tolson’s debate team, which hails from a small African-American college in Texas, receives a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard University’s championship team. The film is directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and stars Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Jurnee Smollett, Nate Parker and Denzel Whitaker.
[Top Row: Nate Parker, Denzel Whitaker]
[Bottom Row: Denzel Washington, Denzel Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Forest Whitaker]
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I can’t wait for this movie, I’m just so happy to see a positive black movie, no not a positive –a quality black movie. No fat lady big mama archetype; no guns, drugs, or ganstas; and no Wayans brothers. I’m not against those types of movies, I’m just a bit tapped out. I need a movie about family and the human spirit.
Checkout pics from the premier of This Christmas, starring everybody: Loretta Divine, Regina King, Chris Brown, Idris Elba, Mekhi Phifer, and many more.
[Loretta Divine & Regina King]
[Idris Elba & Chris Brown]
[Idris Elba & Mekhi Phifer]
[Lauren London & Sharon Leal]
[Mekhi & Wife; Lil Mama & New York]
MR. UNTOUCHABLE is documentary of the rise of Leroy Nicky Barnes as one of New York’s most infamous drug dealers. At the top of his reign, Barnes built an heroin empire that pulled in millions of dollars. Barnes was eventually arrested and prosecuted for drug related crimes, when he turned informant, and basically snitched on his partners and other high level lieutenants within his “organization”. Barnes received early release from prison for his good behavior and is now in a witness protection program because of a million dollar hit on his head. Barnes now 70 tells the story of his life.
If you are documentary buff this movie is worth seeing, but at a time when many of our entertainers and sports player are becoming victims of urban lifestyle and crimes, this movies timing couldn’t be worst. I believe this movie focus too much on the rise of Nicky Barnes and less on the fall of Mr. Barnes. This movie glorifies his life and puts him on a pedestal as an icon.
Nicky Barnes is the man you love to hate, I couldn’t find any redeeming quality in him, or any sense of remorse for selling out his wife or his partners in crime. After serving time in prison you would think he would have a new perspective on the life he lived and the destruction of his empire by his ego. You leave this movie feeling like the wrong people are in jail and that Mr. Barnes is happy about putting them there. I think most shocking is the reason he turned states witness, if you think it’s some profound reason well you’re wrong. I won’t give the ending away, but I will tell you it’s all over a woman. The fact that most of the people involved received a jail sentence of at least ten years, comes at the end of the movie as a side note.
On a positive note, if you love New Jack City as I do, you would love watching this movie. Nino Bown’s character is loosely based on the life of Leroy Nicky Barnes, and seeing the similarities between the two is quite interesting. Overall I give this movie a C+. It’s just a documentary, there isn’t any unique angle or perspective on Nicky Barnes; it’s just simply a retelling of history that glorifies murder and drug dealers. The movie is entitled MR. UNTOUCHABLE, and it doesn’t even focus on how he received the nickname, or the many times he was accused of crimes and got off. Instead it’s a biography on film that just feeds his insatiable ego.
MR. UNTOUCHABLE is a film directed by Marc Levin. It is produced in association with Damon Dash Enterprises and Blowback Productions. I usually don’t do films, but this one looks pretty good. After watching a documentary on American Ganster, this idea of the black mafia is intriquing. This movie will have some hard shoes to follow, considering the movie American Ganster will be released this year, starring Denzel Washington. It will definitely give us something to talk about. The rise and fall of urban legends, and the key word being the fall. To learn more about this movie watch the trailer below or checkout my post on Nicky Barnes, the man behind the movie.
For more information on this movie, visit www.mruntouchable.com. Watch the trailer below and let me know what you think.
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The true-life story of Harlem’s notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline “Mr. Untouchable.”
Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and Barnes found himself serving a life sentence without parole. Feeling Betrayed by his wife and friends while sitting behind bars, Barnes wanted payback, and cooperated with law enforcement by naming names in exchange his freedom under witness protection. With the first hand testimony from “the black Godfather” himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge.
[Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures]
MR. UNTOUCHABLE is directed by Marc Levin. It is produced in association with Damon Dash Enterprises and Blowback Productions. Magnolia Pictures will release the film in LA, NY and select cities on October 26. This movie is rated R so please don’t take the kiddies.
Jennifer started filming her new role on the set of Sex and The City, the movie. Jennifer Hudson is playing the part of Louise, an assistant to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Now that Jennifer Hudson is in the movie, I am excited. This movie should have been made five or so years, ago, but better late than never.
People.com reports:
In her first major role since her Oscar-winning performance in Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson is joining the cast of Sex and the City: The Movie.
The singer and actress, 25, will portray the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker’s shoe-obsessed character Carrie Bradshaw, and is in final negotiations with the movie’s producers about details of her role, Variety is reporting.
Hudson is also in the studio working on her debut album, and is in the upcoming crime drama Winged Creatures opposite Kate Beckinsale and Forest Whitaker.
MG Says: Congrats! I am glad to see Jennifer moving on to something new and very different from Dreamgirls. I can’t wait for the new album to drop.
Will Smith films a scene in his new movie John Hancock in San Pedro, CA. Will Smith is playing the part of an infamous Super-hero, trying to repair his public image.
