'Hot Summer' fizzles
JUDY POWELL'S Hot Summer is a fantastically bad read, even for a romance novel. Published by Lyons Publishing, under the Island Spice brand, the book has a catchy cover, featuring a nubile young woman in a two-piece bathing suit...
'Phat Girlz' - rolls of laughter
PHAT GIRLZ, starring Mo'Nique, is an often hilarious comedy about a fat woman living in a slim woman's world, trying to stay on the treadmill between a 'slim fast' aesthetic and a 'supersize me' culture. The story is essentially a fat...
'Akeelah and the Bee'... a drama that inspires drama
AN INSPIRATIONAL drama, Akeelah and the Bee is the story of Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters various...
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