It’s lights out for Madea, the battle-ax sass queen with a criminal background created three decades ago and portrayed by Tyler Perry. That’s right. Perry, 49, says he will no longer put on a gray wig and wiggle his 6-foot-5 frame into the floral print dresses of the geriatric black …
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Steve Buscemi probably isn’t the first actor who comes to mind to play God. James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, Sir Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett — you want someone with noble and/or mysterious bearing to front any project where the Almighty is a significant character. Buscemi, wonderful though he always is, …
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Let’s say you’re a kid, growing up in England’s middle-class suburbs circa right now. You’re not popular — in fact, it’s safe to say that most of your fellow students would characterize you as a dork, a geek, possibly a dweeb … and that’s if they’re being polite. But you’re …
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The hero ofWayne, a 16-year-old with an angry streak (Mark McKenna), beats up a high school bully with a trumpet, bike-locks a stranger’s abusive boyfriend to a parking meter by the neck and crucifies an evil construction foreman with his own nail gun. Other weapons of destruction used by or …
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We need to talk about Kevin, don’t we? In one of those odd coincidences of timing, we’re getting The Upside, a buddy dramedy that the stand-up comedian/mega-movie star/tireless showbiz workhorse Kevin Hart signed up for a little over four years ago; shot two years ago; saw premiere in Toronto in …
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