‘movie reviews’

When in Rome

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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This movie looks like something I will be taking my girlfriends to see soon! How cute is Kristen Bell! I bet the fashions and scenery is absolutely Pinktastic! Check out the movie trailer below and also stop back for details on where I will be having a girl day to see this!  This movie hits theaters Jan 29th! Thanks to Regal Cinemas!

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http://touchstone.movies.go.com/wheninrome/

Updated! The dvd comes out on June 15th get your copy soon! I’ve seen the movie and it was so cute and girly. Great love story!

Thanks to www.clickcommunications.com for the dvd copy!

My review on Nine

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

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I couldn’t wait for this movie to come out NINE! I was excited and got my tickets in advance and even went by myself because everybody was tied up with holiday stuff. I get to the theater and first thing I noticed was that the seats were half empty! This was Christmas night and the movie theatre was packed! Sherlock Holmes lines were long as heck but nobody was in Nine, first clue!

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I sat down and the movie started. It started off with a bang then sizzled out quickly! I think that Daniel Day-Lewis is a great actor but he was a lil hard to watch dancing and singing lol. I also didn’t understand how he had all these women drooling over him. To me, he looks ok but not drop dead gorgeous like Daniel Craig lol.

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That was a little unbelievable for me. He was suppose to play a married man in the movie that was a film director but was weak to beautiful women. It just didn’t make sense to me. In the movie, he was having a hard time trying to stay focused, while trying to make another hit movie.

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Penelope Cruz did a great job and she played a sexy singer/actress and his mistress.  Kate Hudson was another person that I didn’t think was good for the role of a sex symbol. She is more of a girl next door, or the fun chic you want to party with but not a sex symbol at all, not believable. Plus, she had a very small role in the movie.

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Fergie wasn’t even worth talking about because she was in the movie for like 3 minutes. You wouldn’t even recognize her if you didn’t watch the trailer first or look really fast lol.

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Throughout the movie, people kept getting up and leaving. I counted 15 in total. Alot of the people were saying it sucked, ouch! I haven’t seen people do that since GoodFellas because of all the commentary in it. The scenery and costumes were beautiful but the movie was very hard to understand and it was all over the place. I wish that it was better but it wasn’t. I heard it got alot of Oscar buzz but I don’t know how. It was an epic fail for me. I’m not a movie critic at all but I do go to movies alot.  So all of this is my opinion, enjoy and go see it if you like but I’m warning you in advance lol. I give this movie a D!

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Sneak Preview of “Good Hair”

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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Last night I got  a sneak peek of the best documentary I’ve seen in a long time! Chris Rock has a new movie coming out called, “Good Hair“. Those two words I’ve heard through out my life. I have a sister that is a few years older than me and she has what I think is the prettiest baby fine hair. When I was younger I would ask my mom, “why didnt I get my sisters Good Hair” lol. We still laugh about that today but back in the day it was a serious matter lol. I later started hearing it myself from various hair stylists. They would tell me how I could go about 8 weeks without getting a touch up(relaxer). In my hey day my hair was thick and long. Over the years of relaxers, it has thinned out my hair tremendously.Even till this day, people come up to me or email me and ask where I get my hair done, or who does my weave? lol. I dont have a weave I tell them but refer them to my stylist Margot here in Atlanta and I haven’t had a relaxer in 4 yrs! Woot!

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At Atlantic Station Regal Cinemas for Good Hair movie premiere

In Chris Rock’s documentary, Good Hair it was very eye opening and shocking. You laugh but yet he is educating you on the history of our hair. He talks about why its so important for black women and men to get our hair done, why we will go broke getting our hair done,why men cant touch our hair after we get it done,why we dont swim, the whole Sha Bang! He broke it down, so if you didnt know, now you do!  He interviews various notable celebrities giving their opinions and stories about their hair drama which is funny to hear. He even talks to Dr. Maya Angelou,Ice T and Al Sharpton. As he sits and chats with these people, the stories they tell are hilarious lol.

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Media Moguls what!

Whats not so funny is that fact that the black hair industry is a “billion dollar” business and we are not tapped into it. Asians,Indians,Koreans are making a killing but we are not making a dime from it! That is sad. The other countries that manufacturer the african american products will not sell to us. Chris Rock digs deep by flying out to India to see where the silky indian hair comes from.Then when he gets back to the states he talks to hair store owners who are not black and ask them why they sell our products. It was pretty moving to watch and people in the audience got quiet and just shook their heads. It was really eye opening to see how we spend all this money on our hair, but have little in return. Very genius of him!

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Actor Lance Gross and I

Also in the movie you will see a hair battle from the Bronner Bros hair show,Chris traveling to North Carolina to talk to Dudley(one out 4 black owned hair companies). You will see Chris interviewing in beauty and barber shops talking to customers, which is a hoot. You will see Atlanta’s own Derek J(hairstylist) in the movie. There are some great surprises along the way. It’s edutainment at its finest! lol.

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Here in Atlanta where the movie premiere was,alot of people came out! I ran into Keshia Pulliam,Allen Payne,Lance Gross,and  some of the stylist in the movie. Even Chris Rock and Nia Long came out before the show started to say a few words. Nia Long looked amazing!

I swear he did a great job with this movie! I do recommend you go out to see this! Please take your daughters,grandmas,cousins,Pookie and them and whoever else you can drag to the movie on Oct 9th. We can atleast support a black man that has made a great movie for us and put that money back into our own community geesh!

ATL ONLY: Leave me a funny comment below about your hair stories to win  a pair of tickets!

http://www.goodhairmovie.net/site/