Here’s Jimmy! With Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” contract expiring next year, the question of his potential successor has been looming. Finally, NBC announced Jimmy Fallon, host of his own “Late Night” show, will replace Leno in spring 2014. Read more...
Photo: Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” contract is expiring next year, and NBC has announced “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon will take over in spring 2014.
On May 10, the long-delayed and heavily hyped movie “The Great Gatsby” will hit theaters. I’m not necessarily holding my breath for the movie, having barely been able to get through the book by F. Read more...
Esther Julie-Anne comes from a rich genetic heritage of both French and Native American descent. Now happily married, living in the United States, she retains a high appreciation for both her foreign and localized family roots. Her family’s legacy for marriage, however, remains another story. Read more...
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Director Shola Lynch stated that if she were to write a scripted, narrative film in which a 26-year-old philosophy student became an international political icon, Hollywood would strike the film down as unbelievable. Read more...
Photo: Director Shola Lynch’s new documentary “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners” chronicles Angela Davis’ imprisonment and trial in the 1970s. Davis was a UCLA professor and a member of the Communist Party.
Spring is a beautiful time of year for movie theaters, where big budget sequels bloom and blockbusters flourish. Among this quarter’s crop of aspiring hits are comedies of epic proportions like “The Hangover Part III” and “This is the End,” a remake of horror classic “Evil Dead,” and a 3D re-release of acclaimed sci-fi horror “Jurassic Park.” And those are just the honorable mentions. Read more...
As any college student might know, few things are more nerve-racking than the admissions process. What they don’t know is the chaotic and emotional world on the other end of that application. Read more...
Spring break is a spiritual thing, mostly. Or at least it is in “Spring Breakers,” Harmony Korine’s latest art film wrapped in provocation. Gathering up the opposite of a ragtag crew with erstwhile Disney innocents Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, “Pretty Little Liars” star Ashley Benson, his wife Rachel Korine and a freshly cornrowed James Franco, the director’s latest promises shallow fun, at least (appropriately) on the surface. Read more...
Photo: Disney Princesses and James Franco go wild in Harmony Korine’s new neon-colored celebration and critique of young American hedonism with “Spring Breakers.”
