December is one of my favorite months! With the holidays, chilly days/nights, hot chocolate, tremendous shopping sales and let's not forget the endless amount of Holiday movies, what's not to love?!! This December Issue Includes:
Favorite Director on the Scene- Forest Whitaker TV News New TV Shows to Look out For Upcoming December Movies Must Sees in Theater
KEVIN'S
RETURNS FOR SEASON 2
Hart of the city will premier sometime in 2017. In
this series, Hart travels across the country in search of fresh stand-up
comedians. The show is about half an hour and features each comedian in their
own segment. You can check out season 1 now on Comedy Central Sundays at
11:30/10:30c .
Check out this funny clip!
https://youtu.be/dSR9LtKzS2A
UPCOMING TV SHOWS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS! STAR
This new musical FOX TV series features three young
female singers who take us on a journey to their success. Jude Demorest, Ryan
Destiny and Brittany O’ Grady live in Atlanta and are working to become famous
stars. Created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy. Star is set to premier on
December 14, 2016 on Fox at 9/8c.
Some familiar stars appearing are Queen Latifah, Tyrese Gibson,
Naomi Campbell, Darius McCrary, Chad Buchanan, Lenny Kravitz, and Benjamin Bratt
Check out the Trailer below
https://youtu.be/T2snL9QUIZI
Up and Coming Movies You Don't Want to Miss!!
Directed by Denzel Washington himself and based off a
play, Fences stars Washington and Viola Davis as Troy and Rose. Troy, who
dreamed of being a famous baseball player, was denied those dreams due to
current racism and segregation days before Jackie Robinson. His son wanted to
follow his own dreams to be a football player which Troy makes impossible for
him toaccomplish.
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THE BOUNCE BACK
Press Play
The sexy Shemar Moore, plays Matthew Taylor, a
relationship guru who just released a new book called The Bounce back. He meets
Kristen Peralta who isn’t falling for his know it all attitude and forces Moore
to relive his past and truths.
Collateral Beauty
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Releases December 16, 2016
Will
Smith stars as an Advertising Executive who is involved in a tragedy and turns
to depression. He deals with grief by writing to love, time and death. He ends
up receiving a response from what he never imagined would change his life
forever.
A MUST SEE IN THEATERS
MOONLIGHT
This movie places one man as he grows up and
experiences life dealing with love, pain, violence, and even his own sexuality.
Three teenagers set off for a day at the beach. It wasn’t
their normal sunny and warm day but cloudy, windy, and barely in the 70
degrees. The girls stood there with their tall colorful surfboards looking over
the muggy beach horizon.
“Are you sure you want to surf this today? Looks kind of
choppy” Angelina said, a short caramel complexion girl with wild curly brown
hair looked towards the rolling tides. “Looks like it may even rain.”
“Hell yeah, look at those waves,” replied Star, tall and
slender with chocolate skin and dark black hair tied in a bun.
“What’s up with you, Angie, you aren’t afraid of a little
cloud are you?” Laughed Staci, a slender brown skinned girl with dirty brown
locks down to her butt.
“Of course not, I…” Angelina begins to say.
“Then let’s go!” Staci darts off towards the water with her
surfboard.
“Yeaaaaa!” Star shouts running after Star with her board.
“Maybe we should get our wet suits!” Angelina follows after
them. The girls dive into the water and get on top of their boards swimming
deeper into the ocean floating over small waves. Angelina frantically swims
behind Star and Staci who are much more faster swimmers than her. They get to a
middle ground where they can wait for waves. Star attaches her leg leash and so
do Staci and Angelina.
“I see one!” Staci pointed. “This ones mine!” Staci paddles
on her stomach to an on coming wave forming. She gets in position as the
mediocre wave forms rapidly and she hops on the board to her feet balancing
with perfect precision. She glides on the wave as the other girls cheer her on.
“Yes! That was a good one!” Staci yells back at the girls as
she comes to the end of the wave waiting towards the shore.
“There’s one coming, you can take that one, Angie,” Star points
to a part of the water that had waves developing.
“No, you take it,” Angelina insisted.
“Okay then,” Star scurries to follow the waters rhythm. She
also glides along another mediocre wave focused until she comes to the end
where Staci is still waiting on her board.
The waves are becoming a bit larger now and Angelina can
feel the water changing under her feet.
“Come on Angie! They’re perfect!” Staci yells out to her.
Angelina paddles and cuts through a few waves to prevent
them from taking her back to shore. The water is getting colder and her arms
are feeling the change. She struggles to find a good wave.
“That one!” Star yells out. Angelina hears them but is more
focused on keeping her body from getting colder. She looks up at the sky and
sees the clouds getting a bit darker.
“Hurry!” Star yells again. Angelina centers back on paddling
and sees another wave she can get. She paddles harder, arms freezing and hops
on her two feet, legs shivering. She somehow gets her balance and connects with
the wave. She smiles a nervous relief and rides the wave not realizing the wave
is growing larger behind her.
“Oh shit!” Star yells out. “Ride girl ride!”Angelina doesn’t look back at the wave but
keeps her gaze forward.She feels a hard
gust of wind on the back of her neck and water splashing harder on her back and
neck. She looks behind her at a gigantic wave crashing one by one right on her
heels. Her eyes widen, heart beats faster, and legs tense. She can hear the
girls yelling but can’t make out what they are saying. She faces back forward
and started to feel like she had been riding for eternity. Her knees wobble and
the cold wind stiffens her body. All in an instant thought she wants to let go
and ride the wave on her stomach but if she knew if she made any sudden moves
it could take her out fast. She could see the girls now as their jaws dropped
and started paddling away from her. She looked behind her again as the wave
suddenly took her.
She flew off the board and crashed backside into the water
snatching her ankle leash off. She twirled and twirled under the water holding
her breath and folding her arms to her chest. She felt something scrape the
side of her foot, then her thigh, and her stomach. She yelled out in pain but
ended up sucking in water as the wave died down pushing her towards the shore.
“Angelina!!!!” Star paddled towards the shore.
“Angiiiiieee!” Staci also paddled after her. The clouds have
now become a full dark grey and thunder began to roar. Angelina lay flat on her
stomach like a dead fish, eyes closed. The girls finally make it to shore and
run to Angelina’s side flipping her over on her back. Staci looks back out at
the water for Angelina’s board but doesn’t see it. Star slaps Angelina’s face
and puts her ear to her mouth.
“Oh fuck, she isn’t breathing,” Star cried out beginning
CPR.
“Come on Angie!” Staci grabs Angelina’s freezing hands
squeezing them. “Wake up! Wake up!”
Star continues to press on Angelina’s chest and checks her
breathing again.
“She’s breathing, she’s breathing!” Star yells and continues
CPR on her.
“Come on Come on!” Staci starts slapping Angelina’s face.
“You guys okay!” A guy surfer and his friend in shorts run
over towards the girls. Angelina spits up a ton of water coughing and gagging.
“Oh shit! Thank you, God!” Star falls back. Staci grabs
Angelina hugging her. “You’re my only sister! I would die if I lost you!” she
began crying. The two white boys catch up to the girls.
“Dude, that was amazing!” one blonde and brown eyed boy
spoke up.
“Is she okay?” the other blonde and blue eyed boy asked.
“Yea, I think so,” Angelina replied struggling to rest on
her elbows.
“We caught all that on camera, dude. I’m Tony and this is
Braxton,” the blonde haired guy introduced himself handing his phone to Staci
to see the footage he caught.
“That was like a 10 foot wave, dude, we thought you were
gonna bail!” said Braxton.
The girls watched the video as Angelina was toughing out
this monster wave.
“Oh my God,” Angelina covered her mouth.
“You’re a beast dude that was a total blow out wave with
this weather!” Tony added. “You should join our surf team man!” Braxton added.
“But she almost died!” Staci said. Angelina smiled wildly at
the camera as she fought the ferocious wave with the large clouds and rolling
thunder. Her and the wave; that could barely keep up with her. She cringed when
she saw the wave take her down and looked back out into the water still
splashing and growling.
“So worth it.” Angelina grinned.
And this was the beginning of a new adventure for Angelina.
THE END
Ride Your Wave
We all have waves in our life that we aren’t sure we can take on. There are
even waves in our life that are unexpected. There are even waves that almost
kill us. But once we come to the end of that wave and back in stable waters, we
end up looking back and smiling and asking ourselves, was it worth it. And it
usually is. So embrace your waves, get through them. Ride them. And prepare for
another.
-Princess Diaries.
BLACK WOMEN DO SURF!!
JUST incase you were reading my blog expecting some white girls or even some tanned white boys.....SIKE!! Oh, black people surf too. You didn't know. Check out some links below if you wanna know more. I've also been inspired to carry on this story maybe even into a screenplay...Let's see where Angelina goes with this :-)
Meet Imani Wilmot https://surfgirlja.wordpress.com/about-us/imani-wilmot/
Okay, so as a writer I understand why Shonda Rhimes did it but as a faithful audience...ugghhh I hate it!!! I'm not going to lie though, this is going to make way for some good storytelling and Rhimes may even focus the attention on another character now. I'm curious to see what's going on with Micheala and her bugging mama.
But back to Wes, I have to say I am surprised and I am pretty sure a lot of you just like me were waiting for it to be Nate or Frank. We already knew Laurel was fine, and Frank already wanted to off himself, and then Nate just had to go sneaking his way into Annalise's home. I mean, did Wes have it coming? Was he going to snitch on Annalise? Was Annalise planning to kill the team? Who planted that bomb? What will the team think now? Will they finally go talk to the police now that I am pretty sure the trust is gone with Annalise? And more of a shock, who killed Wes before the explosion????? I guess we are going to have to wait and see! Aggghhh!
Need a little Recap of Season 3 Winter Finale? Check it out Below
We know that Bonnie stopped Frank from killing himself who btw also killed Bonnies dad for Bonnie. She also wants him to take the fall #teamannalise
Laurel is Preggo..by who though?
Nate breaks it off with the DA cus we all know secretly he is also #teamannalise. He does a little sneaking around himself once he finds out Annalise is being investigated.
Michealas mom is trying to stay with her for awhile which Micheala is incredibly irritated about.
Annalise is back drinking.
Oliver doesn't know what the hell he got himself into.
Did you guys miss that drunken kiss between Bonnie and Annalise..hmm :-/
Conner doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut when he's tipsy and revealed to Oliver that he lied about having that uhhhh....addiction.
Rebecca's remains are discovered.
Annalise House blows up and now we know who was under the sheet...WES
How to Get Away With Murder returns January 19th at 10pm on ABC
Black film along with black actors and actresses are becoming increasingly popular, let me tell you! We are on the rise! We have come along way from being depicted as thieves or the help. More and more of us are writing, producing, directing, and acting our own work and I think it’s about damn time we talk about it! My blog is to celebrate, educate, and elevate our black film stars who are making a way for future black stars! I’ll also include in this blog upcoming festivals, events, movies, comedians, a little black history, award shows and anything else you want to see in black film! I feel it is important to see others paving way for people like me who also want to leave a mark, not only in the Entertainment business but Black Entertainment. So if you love film, especially black film, feel free to follow my blog for weekly updates! Prepare to be Entertained Diary Friends!
The Word
Chris Rock Makes a Deal with Netflix
After eight years, Chris Rock will be returning with two
stand-up comedy specials after Netflix endorses a$40 million dollar deal outbidding Hulu,
Amazon, and HBO.
Rock was recently Emmy nominated for the HBO “Schumer
Special” and hosted a great performance for the Oscars this year (2016). There is no
word of what the specials will be called or when they will air but that they
will start planning in 2017. Rock will also be starting a global stand up
comedy tour in 2017. Stay tuned for more info on this great comedian
favorite.
(Courtesy of
hollywoodreporter.com) VIN DIESEL RETURNS IN XXX PREQUEL
Vin Diesel finally returns in the XXX series playing, once again, as Xander Cage in the new XXX: Return of Xander Cage. We remember
the first XXX released In 2002 and then the second XXX:State of the Union with Ice Cube who played as Darius Stone who was a new agent in
the XXX program.
XXX: Return of Xander Cage is set to release January 20th,
2017. Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought
to be dead, and is set on a collision course in a race to recover a weapon
known as Pandora’s Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill seekers, Xander
finds himself caught in a deadly conspiracy that points to deceit at the
highest levels of world governments.
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
IN THEATERS
BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN
Trying to win the approval of her friends, 17-year-old
Tiffany sneaks out of the house to go to a Halloween bash at a fraternity. The
fun soon ends when police and the cranky, fast-talking Madea (Tyler Perry)
arrive to crash the party. Unhappy with this sudden turn of events, the
vengeful collegians decide to scare Madea and her cronies with a series of
pranks. She soon finds herself under attack and on the run from an assortment
of ghosts, ghouls and zombies on Halloween!
Boo! Madea Halloween was released October 21, 2016 just before Halloween. The ratings didn’t go too well with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 3.5/5 giving it a general unflavored score! Madea earned a bountiful $17.2 million in its
second weekend to easily top the box office for the second weekend in a row. While it
may fold after the end of the Halloween season, it’s still on track to earn
anywhere from $80-$90m, perhaps surpassing the $90.5m ofMadea Goes to Jailin 2009.
(courtesy of forbes.com)
CHECK OUT MY SCENE IT SECTION FOR MOVIE REVIEW
ALMOST CHRISTMAS
Walter (Danny Glover) is a
retired automotive engineer who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now
that the holiday season is here, he invites his four adult children and the
rest of the family to his house for a traditional celebration. Walter
knows that if daughters Rachel (Gabrielle Union) and Cheryl (Kimberly
Elise) and sons Christian (Romany Malco) and Evan (Jessie T. Usher) can spend
five days together under the same roof, it will be a Christmas miracle and the best Christmas gift.
LOVING (BASED ON A TRUE STORY)
Released on November 4th, this movie didn’t get much
hype and I'm wondering why? This movie is about an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who fell in love and
were married in 1958. They grew up in a small town in Virginia
that was more integrated than surrounding areas in the American South. As a couple they fought against State laws that jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred relocated
with their children to the inner city of Washington, D.C., but the family decides to sue the state of Virginia in a series of proceedings leading to the Supreme
Court's unanimous decision in Loving v. Virginia, which holds that laws
prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
Stay Blogged in for this Movie Review
SCENE IT
Okay, So Boo! Madea Halloween was a classic Madea masterpiece filled with silly acting, outrageous antics, and a cast full of rambunctious characters. I knew this movie would be nowhere near scary and prepped myself to be more entertained than shaken and this movie did not disappoint.
Madea and her friends end up in an unintended situation when she agreed to watch her son, Brian's(Tyler Perry), daughter(Tiffany) while he works. His spoiled daughter was supposed to go to stay with her mom but she refused, forcing Brian to make this determined decision. Tiffany being the brat she is decides to try and scare Madea and her friends by telling them the house was haunted instilling fear and paranoia in them. While they are freaking out, Tiffany and her friend Aday sneak out to a Frat party that they are way under aged to go to.
You bet Madea went and crashed that when she found out this was going on and ended up sending the cops(with her not around of course!). When this happens, the Fraternity was outraged and planned to get back at Madea which made the entire movie! I enjoyed the fact that instead of Madea doing all the bullying, she was being scared out of her mind! And later at the end, it all became a learning lesson like all of her movies.
I've been a fan of Issa Rae since her youtube series Awkward Girl, so when I heard she finally got her own comedy series, I had to watch it!! Insecure is funny as f, real as f, and watchable as f! So tune in on Sundays at 10:30pm on HBO with Season 1. Insecure has also been renewed for a second season!
Thursdays 10/9c on ABC
How to Get Away with Murder grabbed us with the first season and never let us go! Now in it's third season, Annalise(Viola Davis) never ceases to surprise us with her sacrifices and questionable decisions! This is a must watch every Thursday night! If you aren't watching this now, catch up on the seasons on Hulu or ABC.go.com
Thursdays 8/7c on FOX
Can I get a hell yea for Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood starring in his Series Rosewood who is a private Pathologist who performs autopsies for Miami Police Dept. He works along side the resilient Detective Via who is fascinated and yet irked in Rosewood's abilities! I personally watch it for the eye candy but the story line, Miami sizzle, and crime puzzles keep me coming back for more every Thursday at 8pm!
Redbox Flick Pics!
Bored at home? Got a hot date? Chill night with friends? Here are some Red Box Pics for you!
http://www.redbox.com/
Morris From America (Just Released)
Central Intelligence
Free State of Jones
Mr. Church
Roots( History Channel)
Meet the Blacks
Miles Ahead
HONORING OURVETERANS THISNOVEMBER 11TH
WE THANK YOU!
Top Veteran Flicks
STEALING THE SHOW THIS ISSUE!!!
Michael B Jordan & Gabriel Union
Michael B. Jordan
The Ultimate Bae!
Michael B Jordan (Age 29) first started out in a few famous TV Dramas; The Wire, Friday Night Lights, and Parenthood. From there this hot number took on the role of “Oscar Grant,” in Fruitvale Station. In 2015, he then tackled the role of the Human Torch in Fantastic Four after his role in the 2012 hit Chronicle and Red Tails.Next up he played a newly single friend in That Awkward Moment. He recently became even more of a hit when he played in Creed starring Sylvester Stallone as Creeds rising son. He’s also taken on other roles in movies like Pastor Brown and Blackout. Jordan has supported several charity causes which are the Elton John Aids Foundation, Manifest Your Destiny Foundation, Padre Contra El Cancer, and Lupus LA (where he currently resides in Los Angeles). Just this year NBA 2k17 gave him the host role as “Justice Young.” He’s won several NAACP Image awards for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series and Motion Picture. He’s won Best Breakthrough Actor at the Hollywood Film Awards. In 2016, he won Choice Movie Actor: Action in Teen Choice Awards, and those aren’t even nibbling the amount of awards this guy has racked up. We will definitely continue to see this shining star rise.(courtesty of IMDB)
You can follow him here:
Twitter- @michaelb4jordan
Instagam- Michaelbjordan
Facebook- @michaelbjordan
(That Awkward Moment)
Films Famous For:
Creed: 2015
Fantastic Four: 2015
That Awkward Moment: 2014
Fruitvale Station: 2013
Chronicle: 2012
Red Tails: 2012
Pastor Brown: 2010
Hardball: 2001
GABRIELLE UNION The Ultimate Babe!
We
probably all fell in love with Gabrielle Union (44) with her in the
movie The Brothers but I can definitely remember her in her early years when
she played a lead cheerleader role in Bring it On. Some other hot favorites are
Deliver us From Eva, Daddys Little Girls, Think Like a Man, Bad Boys II,
Cadillac Records, and now she is starring in her very own BET series, Being Mary Jane.
So what
is she doing now?
Enjoying
her relationship with cutie NBA star Dwyane Wade!
Starring
in the new Almost Christmas movie which is out now!
Stay
tuned for Season 4 of Being Mary Jane set to be released on January 10, 2017 on
BET!
Union
is currently in a movie with Jamie Fox called Sleepless, set to date sometime
in 2017.
Union
also starred on this months cover of Essence!
