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Broadway hit at SF Playhouse, Carl Lumbly stars

5 years ago

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The San Francisco Playhouse continues its celebration of their 10th season. The company has moved into larger, remodeled digs, 450 Post Street @ Powell (formerly the home of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre) opening to appreciative audiences. Up next, a stirring production of playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2011 Broadway hit, The Motherf**ker with the Hat.[...]

Rusty Cundieff talks "Movie 43"

5 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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MOVIE 43 is touted as one of the most irreverent films of any kind, this equal opportunity offender, a comedy with some 12 directors, nine writers and a gang of producers plus an impressive cast too long to list. I spoke with one of the daring dozen, filmmaker Rusty Cundieff (Sprung, Tales from the Hood, The Dave Chappell Show), about his participation in MO[...]

Following a dream, Sheldon Candis

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Much love for “LUV”New film from the indomitable and talented Sheldon Candis Mayhem, miss-steps and machismo meet in LUV, a timeless classic with contemporary, masculine gloss from director Sheldon Candis starring actor/activist/rapper Common alongside Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good and amazing young actor, Michael Rainey J[...]

LUV's Dennis Haysbert

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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He was cast as David Palmer, president of the most powerful country in the world on the smash TV hit, 24; and, his commanding baritone voice can be heard daily in nationally televised commercials for ALLSTATE Insurance.On inauguration weekend, Bay Area (San Mateo) native Dennis Haysbert (Wreck-It-Ralph, Breach, Jarhead) costars alongside a band of celebrat[...]

Oscar nominated BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Oscar nominee Quvenzhane (Qua van janay) Wallis stars in Beasts of the Southern Wild directed by Oscar nominee Benh Zeitlin is a beautiful film!The opening scene presents an amazing golden child innocently immersed in her own animal kingdom --a world of domestic pets, remnants of a crude existence-- bearing a striking chord of realism, albeit suspended b[...]

CALIFORNIA SOLO, a recommended pick

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) has a penchant for portraying the forlorn near do-gooder who finds his way haplessly through life, and that’s a true compliment. Carlyle, centers himself adeptly as Lachlan MacAldonich, a former British pop rocker who has strayed 360 degrees from his former life in the indy release, CALIFORNIA SOLO, from Strand [...]

Marlon Wayans, One-on-One

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie film franchise, Norbit, White Chicks) takes the helm directing and starring in the raucous comedy feature, A HAUNTED HOUSE, bringing his unleashed humor to full measure with no holds barred. The tale centers on a couple who decides to live together and take their relationship to the next level. The scary part unfolds when “the hou[...]

Tyler Perry at work on new film

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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According to industry publication, The Hollywood Reporter, Atlanta-based filmmaker/TV producer/philanthropist Tyler Perry has begun work on his new film project, "Single Mom's Club" and has cast Wendi McLendon-Covey (TV's Reno 911, Bridesmaids). Perry is reported to start shooting by month's end."Mom's Club" is reported to be the story of single mothers[...]

Denzel Washington, above-the-clouds performance in Flight is aerodynamic!

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Denzel Washington could receive his third Oscar for the new movie, Flight. The two-time Academy Award winner-- who in 1990, won Best Supporting Actor for Glory, and in 2002, won Best Actor for Training Day-- surrenders himself completely in a wonderfully uncompromising portrayal as Captain “Whip” Whitaker, a tenured commercial airline pilot whose unpar[...]

Melissa Leo’s penetrating performance in FLIGHT pivots dramatic conclusion

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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When I first met Melissa Leo-- several years ago at the Toronto Film Festival-- she lived up to my impression; a terrific actor with an easy way about her, flat-footed assuredness and anything but pretentious. In other words, someone you could talk to; and, talk we did recently about the new movie, Flight.Leo costars in Flight as Ellen Block, a reputabl[...]