What Women Want receives a gender swap remake in director Adam Shankman’s What Men Want from Paramount Pictures. Taraji P. Henson portrays Ali Davis a successful sports agent trying to avoid sexism in her male-dominated ad agency office. When Ali is passed up by her boss Nick (Brian Bosworth) for yet another promotion, she decides that a girls’night will help boost her morale.
Grab your bestie and come celebrate Galentine’s Day with screenings of the classic film BRIDESMAIDS, along with live music and drinks on Wednesday, February 13th at Warner Bros. Theater at the National Museum of American History
Everything Is Awesome once again in Warner Bros. lively sequel, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part from director Mike Mitchell. The first film revealed to its audience that the events on the screen were all part of a young boy named Finn imagination who was playing with his father’s highly organized Lego sets. When we last left Finn, he was on good terms with his father and the two were enjoying the Lego sets together. However, Finn’s dad allowed his younger sister Bianca to play with the Lego sets as well.
Gina Rodriguez takes on a drug cartel in Columbia Pictures, Miss Bala from director Catherine Hardwicke. Gloria Fuentes (Rodriguez) is a make-up artist living in Los Angeles who takes a vacation to her home of Tijuana, Mexico to help her friend Suzu (Cristina Rodlo) in a beauty pageant. One night the friends go to a nightclub where Suzu hopes to favor her odds in the beauty pageant by mingling with the judges.
The legend of “King Arthur” gets an update in 20th Century Fox’s The Kid Who Would Be King from director Joe Cornish. Alexander Elliot (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is a young lad living in England who spends his days avoiding local bullies Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kay (Rhianna Dorris). Alex’s best friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo) is also a victim of the bullies, until one day Alex decides to stand up for Bedders and ends up with detention.
Director M. Night Shyamalan closes out his Eastrail 177 trilogy with his latest film, Glass from Universal Pictures. Serving as a sequel to both 2016’s Split and 2000’s Unbreakable, Glass find David Dunn (Bruce Wills) utilizing his superhuman strength to fight crime using the alias, “The Overseer.” Meanwhile, in the two years since Split, Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) who has multiple personality disorder is continuing his evil deeds. When David learns that Kevin is holding a group of cheerleaders captive he springs into action. During the attempted rescue, David encounters “The Beast,” the most menacing of Kevin’s personalities.
On this edition of INTERVUE, Arely talks to Manolo Caro, director of the new film Perfectos Desconocidos or Perfect Strangers, a new adaptation of a 2016 Italian film. The electrifying story about a seemingly simple dinner. When a group of best friends get together during a lunar eclipse to share an intimate dinner in the tasteful house of Eva (Cecilia Suarez) and Antonio (Bruno Bichir), they suspect it’s just another typical night until the hostess proposes a game. All guests must lay their cell phones on the table and read aloud all incoming messages and answer all incoming phone calls in front of the entire group. What begins as a provocative party game quickly becomes a wild ride full of twists and “textual tension” in this electrifying over the top comedy about the secrets we all carry in our pockets.
For our FINAL interview from the Middleburg Film Festival last fall, I sat down with the writer/director Nadine Labaki to talk about her latest film. Capernaum! Inside a court, Zain, a 12-year-old Syrian refugee boy, is brought before the judge. To the question: “Why are you attacking your parents in court?”, Zain answers: “For giving me life!” The film retraces the incredible journey of this child in search of his identity and who rebels against the life that was imposed on him. Here’s the inside scoop of our interview, enjoy!
In our second part of If Beale Street Could Talk interviews, I was part of a roundtable with Screenwriter/Director Barry Jenkins.
In this Christmas edition of INTERVUE, I interviewed actress Kiki Layne about her new film “If Beale Street Could Talk”. In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. I sat down with Kiki during a roundtable to talk about her big-screen debut!
