| Rap Game King Lear |
[05 Jan 2015|12:51am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/01/empire_review_terrence_howard_and_taraji_p_henson_are_great_in_new_fox_show.html Fox’s new hip-hop drama, the sporadically outstanding Empire, emphatically announces its audacity just before the end of its first episode. Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), a mother of three who has spent the last two decades in prison, looks at Lucious Lyon (Terrance Howard), the father of her children, a successful rapper turned music mogul, a man she took the fall for, her intimate and her enemy, and declares her mission. “I want to show you a faggot really can run this company,” she growls, stating her intention to have Jamal (Jussie Smollett), their middle son and a gay musician, take over Lucious’ musical empire, whether he likes it or not.
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| Rap Game King Lear |
[05 Jan 2015|12:51am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/01/empire_review_terrence_howard_and_taraji_p_henson_are_great_in_new_fox_show.html Fox’s new hip-hop drama, the sporadically outstanding Empire, emphatically announces its audacity just before the end of its first episode. Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), a mother of three who has spent the last two decades in prison, looks at Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), the father of her children, a successful rapper turned music mogul, a man she took the fall for, her intimate and her enemy, and declares her mission.* “I want to show you a faggot really can run this company,” she growls, stating her intention to have Jamal (Jussie Smollett), their middle son and a gay musician, take over Lucious’ musical empire, whether he likes it or not.
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| The $5-a-Night Film School |
[05 Jan 2015|01:36pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/01/patton_oswalt_s_silver_screen_fiend_reviewed.html EXT. A MOVIE THEATER—NIGHT. Big bold letters on an illuminated marquee spell out the evening’s double feature: Hal Ashby’s A Confederacy of Dunces, followed by Terrence Malick’s Blood Meridian. We glide past the box office and up to a calendar by the doors to see what else is coming. There is Sergio Leone’s 1988 epic Stalingrad, Orson Welles’s Batman (Richard Widmark as the Joker!), James Dean in Kenneth Anger’s On the Road. Then Peckinpah’s Superman, Coppola’s Doctor Strange, Russ Meyer’s Jaws of Vixen. Capping the glorious month of film-going is Scorsese, with his adaptation of Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, starring the great John Cazale.
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