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Hollywood turns out for Pan African Film Festival
All The RageActors, filmmakers and other invited guests converged on the Culver Plaza Theatre in Culver City on Wednesday for the opening of the Pan African Film Festival, which this year features 121 films from 31 nations. Actor Nate Parker of "The...... -
The Three Faces of Eddie
Zap2It.comWith his brazen gifts for mimicry, Eddie Murphy may now be the Peter Sellers of blockbuster toilet comedy movies. His "Norbit" is a comedy for masochists--an often awful parade of flatulent gags about big butts, sadistic relationships and sexual idiocy,...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Bars and Clubs, Prostitution, Lifestyle and Leisure, Eddie Murphy
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'The Gospel'
![Rob Hardy's "The Gospel" is another solid entry in the burgeoning African American faith-based genre that favors inclusiveness over preachiness and presents multidimensional characters. Featuring a number of noted gospel singers, "The Gospel" is rousing, affirmative entertainment.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-10/19841168.jpg "Rob Hardy's "The Gospel\" is another solid entry in the burgeoning African American faith-based genre that favors inclusiveness over preachiness and presents multidimensional characters. Featuring a number of noted gospel singers, \"The Gospel\" is rousing, affirmative entertainment.")
Times Staff WriterRob Hardy's "The Gospel" is another solid entry in the burgeoning African American faith-based genre that favors inclusiveness over preachiness and presents multidimensional characters. Featuring a number of noted gospel singers, "The Gospel" is rousing,...Tags: Donnie McClurkin, Idris Elba, Death, PG Rated Movies, Finance
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'Woman, Thou Art Loosed'
![After a shocker of a prologue, "Woman, Thou Art Loosed" cuts to a preacher visiting a young woman on death row in an unnamed prison. The minister is the real thing, Bishop T.D. Jakes, and three years ago Time magazine put him on its cover as "America's best preacher." This powerful picture, which Stan Foster adapted from Jakes' novel, is the real thing too, showing just how rape can damage a child for life.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-09/14468857.jpg "After a shocker of a prologue, "Woman, Thou Art Loosed\" cuts to a preacher visiting a young woman on death row in an unnamed prison. The minister is the real thing, Bishop T.D. Jakes, and three years ago Time magazine put him on its cover as \"America's best preacher.\" This powerful picture, which Stan Foster adapted from Jakes' novel, is the real thing too, showing just how rape can damage a child for life.")
Times Staff WriterAfter a shocker of a prologue, "Woman, Thou Art Loosed" cuts to a preacher visiting a young woman on death row in an unnamed prison. The minister is the real thing, Bishop T.D. Jakes, and three years ago Time magazine put him on its cover as "America's...Tags: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Rape, Death, Debbi Morgan
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'Ray'
![From the moment director Taylor Hackford starts "Ray" with a shot of Jamie Foxx's fingers hitting the piano keys and breaking into the unmistakable rhythms of "What'd I Say," it's clear that Ray Charles' unstoppable music will power this film. It's axiomatic that any picture with songs like "I Got a Woman," "Georgia on My Mind," "Hit the Road Jack" and "I Can't Stop Loving You" is going to get cut all the slack it needs.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-10/14850797.jpg "From the moment director Taylor Hackford starts "Ray\" with a shot of Jamie Foxx's fingers hitting the piano keys and breaking into the unmistakable rhythms of \"What'd I Say,\" it's clear that Ray Charles' unstoppable music will power this film. It's axiomatic that any picture with songs like \"I Got a Woman,\" \"Georgia on My Mind,\" \"Hit the Road Jack\" and \"I Can't Stop Loving You\" is going to get cut all the slack it needs.")
Los Angeles TimesFrom the moment director Taylor Hackford starts "Ray" with a shot of Jamie Foxx's fingers hitting the piano keys and breaking into the unmistakable rhythms of "What'd I Say," it's clear that Ray Charles' unstoppable music will power this film. It's...Tags: Georgia, Craig Armstrong, Death, Quincy Jones, Jamie Foxx
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'Civil Brand'
![With the fiery "Civil Brand," director Neema Barnette, in her theatrical feature debut, resurrects that old exploitation genre favorite, the women's prison picture, as an exposé of that contemporary phenomenon, the prison-industrial complex.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-08/9175101.jpg "With the fiery "Civil Brand,\" director Neema Barnette, in her theatrical feature debut, resurrects that old exploitation genre favorite, the women's prison picture, as an exposé of that contemporary phenomenon, the prison-industrial complex.")
Times Staff WriterWith the fiery "Civil Brand," director Neema Barnette, in her theatrical feature debut, resurrects that old exploitation genre favorite, the women's prison picture, as an exposé of that contemporary phenomenon, the prison-industrial complex. Barnette's...Tags: Mos Def, Lark Voorhies, Cinema Industry, Death, Prisons
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Movie review: 'Never Die Alone'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) "Never Die Alone," the dark new gangland drama starring rapper DMX, purports to be literate film noir but comes off more like the overwritten project of a film school kid who just memorized his textbook on the style: "For pitch-perfect...Tags: Clifton, Death, Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Bones' Resurrects the Ghost of the Hollywood Horror Genre
NEWSDAYJust when you think there's nothing new to be done with either "blaxploitation" tropes or the ghost-with-an-agenda sub-genre of Hollywood gore, along comes Ernest Dickerson's "Bones" to goose the old formulas with crafty street folklore and antic,...Tags: Death, John Singleton, Entertainment, Movies, Genres
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Dead Presidents
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday October 4, 1995 Coming after Spike Lee's "Clockers" and Carl Franklin's "Devil in a Blue Dress," the Hughes brothers' "Dead Presidents" is the third significant work by an African American filmmaker to be released by a major studio...Tags: Bokeem Woodbine, Sociology, Chris Tucker, Martin Scorsese, Death
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