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    May 18, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  1. Saturday's Highlights: 'The Wife He Met Online' on Lifetime

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    Saturday's Highlights: 'The Wife He Met Online' on Lifetime...
  2. Apr 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Movie review: 'We the Party' fails to capture school spirit

    Writer-director Mario Van Peebles' hectic version of a coming-of-age romp, the L.A.-set "We the Party" depicts a multi-ethnic group of friends and acquaintances at a fictional Baldwin Hills high school, who have sex, grades and an uncertain future on their minds.
    Writer-director Mario Van Peebles' hectic version of a coming-of-age romp, the L.A.-set "We the Party" depicts a multi-ethnic group of friends and acquaintances at a fictional Baldwin Hills high school, who have sex, grades and an uncertain future on...

    Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Snoop Dogg

  4. Aug 30, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  5. The Rej3ctz enlist Chris Brown for latest dance craze

    Pop & Hiss
    Just when we thought we were caught up with all the latest dance crazes -- minus the Dougie -- the Rej3ctz are putting our feet back to work with a new jig. As inventors of the Reject -- that tricky......
  6. Jan 24, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  7. Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Kitchen Boss' on TLC

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    Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 23 - 29 in PDF format TV listings for the week of Jan. 23 - 29 in PDF format (alternate link) Weekly TV Listings can also be found at:......
  8. Nov 28, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Indie Focus: 'Night Catches Us' examines the Black Panthers circa 1976

    Recent films such as "Carlos," "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and "Che" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With "Night Catches Us" writer-director Tanya Hamilton brings some of those same passions and upheavals to domestic shores with a look at the personal undercurrents that drive the political actions in one neighborhood in Philadelphia in 1976.
    Recent films such as "Carlos," "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and "Che" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With "Night Catches Us" writer-director Tanya Hamilton...

    Tags: Tom Wolfe, Crimes, Drama (genre), Politics, Documentary (genre)

  10. Apr 5, 2012 |Column| RedEye
  11. 'We the Party' review: The message outshines the movie

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    ** (out of four) Raise your hand, all current and aspiring filmmakers, and repeat: “I, (your name here), pledge to never include a group of high school guys making a bet about who can lose their virginity first. If I can find a new, fresh way to do...

    Tags: Movies, Services and Shopping, Vehicles, Entertainment

  12. Dec 18, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  13. Chicago's top celebrity hangouts in 2011

    If any of us wondered if celebrities would still visit Chicago after &ldquo;The Oprah Winfrey Show&rdquo; ended in May, we now have our answer.
    If any of us wondered if celebrities would still visit Chicago after “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended in May, we now have our answer. Chicago is still a popular destination for film projects — which this year included “Man of...

    Tags: Dave Winfield, Ernie Banks, Jordan Hendry, Thomas Ricketts, Patrick Stump

  14. Jan 12, 2012 |Story| Zap2It
  15. 'All Things Fall Apart'

    Curtis &quot;50 Cent" Jackson is proving serious about his move from music into acting, as demonstrated again by his portrayal of the person for whom the "things fall apart" in this drama.
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    Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is proving serious about his move from music into acting, as demonstrated again by his portrayal of the person for whom the "things fall apart" in this drama. He also co-wrote the tale in which he plays a college football star...

    Tags: Ray Liotta, Blu-ray Discs, 50 Cent, Lynn Whitfield, DVDs

  16. Jul 25, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel
  17. August at the movies in O-Town– some great titles sneaking in under the summer’s gun

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    “Sarah's Key,” a superb Holocaust thriller starring Kristin Scott Thomas, may open as late as Sept. 2, I am now hearing. The release schedule is crowding up and when the only art theater in town gives up the whole summer to a couple of titles,...
  18. Nov 2, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel
  19. Orlando Film Festival — An awful lot of weaker fare in this one

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    Programming a film festival can't be easy, even in the best of times. And with the beating indie film has taken in the past five years, just getting filmmakers to either pay an entry fee and submit their movie or who will simply allow their movie to be...
  20. Apr 23, 1998 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Los Locos: Posse Rides Again

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    Friday April 24, 1998      The phrase appended to the title, "Los Locos: Posse Rides Again," is a bit of a cheat: "Los Locos" isn't actually a sequel to the 1993 "Posse," in which director-star Mario Van Peebles rode tall as the leader of a mostly...

    Tags: Movies, Crimes, U.S. Army, Gang Activity, Mercury

  22. Dec 25, 2001 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Floats, and Stings, Like a Butterfly

    TIMES FILM CRITIC
    "Ali" opens with a shot of Will Smith as a bundled-up 22-year-old Cassius Clay doing late-night roadwork in preparation for his 1964 heavyweight title fight with Sonny Liston. It's an arresting visual, of a lonely sphinx in sweats, and it tells you a...

    Tags: U.S. Army, Documentary (genre), Elijah Muhammad, Will Smith, Islam

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