Grape Drink mafiosi Latoya Peterson and Alyssa Rosenberg discuss the politics of the Oscars.
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(The whole thing is on YouTube, who knew?) I don’t expect you to have ever heard of For Love of Ivy. I hadn’t heard of it until a couple of years ago, one night when I was hanging out with my dad and we were trolling On Demand for something to watch. So, as we resurrect “Revisiting [...]
DRINK THE TEA OR THE FUCKING BUNNY DIES. Every conversation I’ve overheard/overseen, either on or offline, about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (set to hit theatres March 5th) always ends up with a statement about how dark and gloomy and creepy he made it. Why did he have to do that? What’s his [...]
An early candidate for understatement of 2010? Since having his jaw removed by cancer treatments, Roger Ebert, the prolific film critic, has become a prolific tweeter, and has written some truly beautiful essays about life without food and drink, as well as the simple pleasures of making out without sex. Esquire’s Chris Jones has a [...] A few summers ago, I was keeping company with a lovely young lady who let it slip that she had never seen love jones, the moody 1997 romance starring Nia Long and Larenz Tate. Among young, aspirational creative class Negroes, the film had taken on mythical dimensions as a portrait of the kind of lives [...]
*For those who are ridiculously late (like myself) and haven’t watched it yet, there are spoilers ahead. Consider yourself warned.
Along with the Oscar buzz surrounding The Hurt Locker there has been another conversation taking place – civilian impressions of the film versus those of military personnel and [...]
Last Saturday, TVOne aired Idlewild (as I’m sure they do pretty often) and I decided that, three years after my first DVD viewing, it might be time to give Outkast’s initially disappointing musical another try. So I buckled in for the two-and-a-half-hour screening (complete with edits and commercials) and now, I [...] Julia Roberts Julia Roberts is going to play the lead in Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir that was on the best-seller list for hundreds of weeks. It makes a lot of sense to combine everything in the world we despise into one entity. Now we don’t have to divide our loathing for Roberts’s [...]
First things first: The Book of Eli is about religion. More specifically, The Book of Eli is about Christian religion. So those unnamed people Roger Ebert says are “attacking” it as “fundamentalist propaganda” kind of have a point. Like Ebert, I won’t tell you what the film’s titular book is: but Eli (Denzel [...] I’m kind of tired of the bourgie-black-parents-have-to-deal-with-their-kid-dating-interracially thing. A lot of the humor in Our Family Wedding (and Guess Who and Something New and hell, even that terrible MTV movie Love Song) seems to rest on the fact that the blacks! are! middle! class! With their cotillions and tennis and fancy cars! Look, Guess Who’s Coming to [...] Sara Libby calls Crash the worst movie of the aughts. It’s been called a “feel-good” racism movie – one that leads people to believe they’re on the right side of racism, when in fact they’re just having their buttons pushed and their preconceived notions re-affirmed. In the film, the characters exist in what former L.A. Times critic [...] Ta-Nehisi posts a video of Gene Siskel (still deeply missed) and Roger Ebert critiquing Clueless when it came out: He adds: “Poorly drawn movies tend to depend on poorly drawn characters. And poorly drawn black characters almost always descend into stereotype and cartoon. Not that I’m an expert on Teen Movies, but I can’t really think [...]
In graduate school, I had to attend a series of talks from magazine editors and one* of them, from Harper’s, faced a tough question from a friend of mine who asked a lot of tough questions of our guests. She read through the masthead’s list of all-male, mostly Anglo-sounding names and asked, “Where’s [...] I’m guest blogging at Alyssa Rosenberg’s (with some other fantastic bloggers) for the next 10 days or so, while she’s living it up in Cambodia. Inspired by a post from SEK, I put up a piece on Iron Man being a thoroughly mediocre film: I managed to get through the first 25 minutes on the sheer [...] Via Alyssa, who says this is “like a Judd Apatow movie got stuck in a blender with a movie about a couple of Magical Africans.” I invite you to view the trailer for Wonderful World. (Video is out of sync, but that doesn’t make it worse.) My thoughts: 1) I really like the woman, but Sanaa Lathan can [...] |
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