Posts Tagged ‘Lee Daniels’

Marco’s Interviews with Lee Daniels, Gabourney Sidibe and Paula Patton from Precious

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Lee Daniels & Marco

Photo credit: Deonna Hodges

The buzz around the new film “Precious” has been building since its debut earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Screened under its original title “Push” (but later changed to “Precious” to avoid confusion with the sci-fi clunker of the same name), the film went on to capture the hearts of festival goers and critics alike, amassing two of the festival’s top jury prizes.

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Precious [Movie Review]

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Precious - Gabby

Precious [Gabourey Sidibe] is an overweight illiterate teen living in Harlem in the late 1980s.  She’s pregnant for the second time with her father’s child and still living with her abusive mother, Mary [Mo’Nique].  After being kicked out of her school, for basically being too much for them to handle, she’s sent to a special needs school called Each One Teach One and put in Ms. Blue Rain’s [Paula Patton] classroom in an effort to educate herself and try to catch up with the rest of the world and help lift herself out of this situation she’s currently living. (more…)

Coming Out This Week

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Coming Out - 09.11.15 - Planet 51

This week in theatre you can see: (more…)