Posts Tagged ‘Tyrese Gibson’
Film Review – Black and Blue (Second Take)
It used to be an insult to accuse a movie of being like a TV show. In earlier eras film was supposed to be elevated so high above television that saying something on the big screen felt like it was derivative enough to be only…
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Film Review – Black and Blue
Black and Blue comes at a prolonged contentious time between African Americans and the police, especially in my area of Dallas-Fort Worth. With an unprovoked, deadly police shooting in Fort Worth earlier this month, it is probably not the best time for a fictional film like…
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Film Review – The Fate of the Furious
By now we’ve seen cars do pretty much everything a car can and cannot do on screen. Progressively from street car racing to launching sideways out of a moving train, to falling with parachutes out of skies and landing on four wheels. We have even…
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Film Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
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Film Review – Black Nativity
With the holiday season kicking into high gear, we can expect our fair share of holiday-themed movies. If you’re not the type who enjoys this kind of fare, it may be best for you to turn away now. Black Nativity is unabashedly a Christmas musical,…
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Film Review – Fast & Furious 6
Somewhere in this hypertensive ball of cars, crime, and machismo lays the display of something that resembles perpetual motion. The display looks like a series of films that not only refuse to die, but somehow pick up steam as they go, propelling themselves forward, using…
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Film Review – Fast Five
In 2001, the original The Fast and The Furious film started a storyline involving an undercover cop and an ex-con and the unlikely friendship they formed. It also left the storyline open until 2009’s Fast and Furious reunited undercover-cop-turned-FBI-agent Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) with the…
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