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Candyman

What if you created one of the largest candy names in the business? Chocolate is a world unto itself and run by less than a handful...

Candice Winters

Film Special Features

“Diary of a Single Mom”

Robert Townsend is a trailblazer. An industry veteran who built his career writing, directing and producing movies such as Hollywood...

Samantha Ofole

Film Movie Reviews

The Nutcracker in 3D

Much like many of Grimm’s tales of fairies and magic, “The Nutcracker” has left the realm of familiarity and entered into the...

Film Movie Reviews

Disco and Atomic War

Was the hit American TV show “Dallas” responsible for the fall of Communism in Estonia? Was David Hasselhoff the...

Natasha Desianto

Film Interviews

Tangled

Rapunzel, the tale of a long-locked princess trapped in a tower, began as a Grimm’s fairy tale but has gone on to infiltrate...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Lavanderia

Tyler Perry started the successful trend of movies with a message for communities across the world, and now other filmmakers...

Sola Fasehun

Film Interviews

Faster

He was just a dumb kid following his brother into a life of crime, so he decided to be the driver of a getaway car in a bank...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

It’s here, Potterheads! For those of us who have read all of the books, fell asleep to the narration read to us by Jim Dale and...

Candice Winters

Film Special Features

Holiday Preview

It’s time to deck the halls with the season’s best. And we don’t mean tinsel. We’re talking Oscar contenders, the culmination...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film TV Time

Kyle Richards

Kyle Richards has an enviable life. Since childhood, she made a splash on the Hollywood scene as a noted child actor. She and...

Ebony March

Film Projections

The Social Network

The scene opens to: INT. CAMPUS BAR – NIGHT MARK ZUCKERBERG, a “sweet-looking 19-year-old whose lack of any physically intimidating...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Today’s Special

In Today’s Special, writer-comedian Aasif Mandvi stars as Samir, a sous-chef in an upscale Manhattan restaurant working...

Kate Bryan

Film Movie Reviews

Made in Dagenham

When looking at the 1960s with a nostalgic eye, it’s easy to glamorize the decade, wishing that one could go back to the...

Kate Bryan

Film Movie Reviews

Love and Other Drugs

I was an adolescent in the 1980s, and as such, I can recall a number of awesome, pop-culture events that were synonymous with...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the documentary Jews and Baseball. Nor do you have to be an especially big baseball...

Dov Rudnick

Film Interviews

Burlesque

When she walks into a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in November, a black sweater studded with gold sequins...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Tiny Furniture

Lena Dunham writes, directs and stars in Tiny Furniture, a tale of post-college life in New York City. Dunham plays Aura, who,...

Kate Bryan

Film Special Features

"Backwash"

Some major stars are lending their talent to the new Web series “Backwash” (premiering Nov. 15 on Crackle.com). Each episode...

Mike Sebastian

Film TV Time

"College Chef"

As every starving college student knows, there are a few forever-looming questions like, Where’s my next meal coming from? Is...

Danielle Lee

Film TV Time

"The Big C"

It claims the lives of millions the world over each year. But who knew that cancer would prove to be such a breath of fresh air...

Ebony March

Film Projections

Cinema Italian Style 2010

I’m Italian and damn proud of it. It comes with the territory. You have to admit, Snooki and her minions at the Jersey Shore...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Vision

Set in a 12th-century Benedictine monastery in Germany, Vision tells the story of nun Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa),...

Kate Bryan

Film Movie Reviews

The Taqwacores

I first met Basim Usmani of the Taqwacore band the Kominas in person at a deathrock festival in New York. Although he had come...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

Outside the Law

Rachid Bouchareb wears his influences like a badge while telling the story of three brothers, each fighting for their own brand...

Christian Goss

Film Interviews

Unstoppable

Imagine that you’re a blue-collar worker and today is your first day on the job. Your co-workers are anything but hospitable....

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Skyline

Donald Faison has a fascination for sci-fi flicks, so it’s no surprise the 36-year-old actor jumped at the opportunity...

Samantha Ofole

Film Interviews

Queen of the Lot

A voice as sweet and comforting as a dollop of molasses rings across the phone. Profusely apologizing for her raspy voice and...

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

Marwencol

Imagination is often seen as a metaphorical source for real-life confrontations. We write novels and paint pictures that represent...

Candice Winters

Film Projections

California State Parks Foundation Film Series

In 1977, the world (particularly Hollywood) felt a shift. No, it wasn’t one of our California earthquakes. A film was released...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Jolene

It isn’t enough for a narrative to tell one story any more. The twisting and turning of plot, the fragmentation of perspective...

Candice Winters