Coming Soon: For Coloured Girls

Interesting movie. No news yet on when it will screen here in NZ but it should be a good film. I think Janet Jackson has really delivered some solid performances in the last two "why did I get married" films so I'm interested to see how she does in this film.

The OTHER Avatar

There are those of you who will be familiar with the popular Avatar: the Legend of Aang(The Last Airbender) cartoon series that screens daily on Nickelodeon. This is one of the few kiddie/tween animations that I watch (and wish I could follow if I had time) and enjoy. With numerous animation-real life adaptaions that have been undertaken in the last five years, I am eager to see how this translates on the big screen.

I spotted the trailer over on youtube. Titled The Last Airbender, it is Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (I had to go back and make sure I spelt it right lol and features what looks to be an unknown cast but includes Dev Patel (Slum Dog Millionaire) as the arche nemisis Zuko. I would have loved to see a few more asians casted in the lead roles (seeing as the animated charecters are asian) but we'll see how this turns out.

Film: Good Hair

I remember reading a book in my final year of uni about what was "good hair" amongst women of colour. There are two different ends of the divide-those who feel that having straight hair is beautiul and those who would rather have the what they were born with because changing your hair would mean you wre conforming to a "white notion of beauty".

Personally having my hair "relaxed" is a choice I make so that I can manage my hair. Whatever our reasons I think we should consider that maybe there is more to straightening hair than we thought-who knew hair could be so "conscious".

Anyways Chris Rocks film "good hair" takes a light/comedic look at the good hair debate amongst african americans.

Ronin Films

Ronin films is a Canberra based film distribution company. My partner after one of his long sessions trawling the net for all things PNG asked me to do a post on them after he found that they'd had a sprisingly long list of PNG films in their distiribution list.

Ronin films have been around for over thirty years and they primarily distribute independent films into the "non-theatrical" section of the film industry.The films they distibute on are hand picked by their founder Andrew Pike-"The criteria for selection are intrinsic quality and educational interest".

At present they have a list of about 17 PNG films the oldest dating back to 1976 (GOGODALA: A Cultural Revival) and the most recent films being Papa Bilong Chimbu (2007). For a full list of the PNG films on their distribution list, visit this link.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I had been anticipating the sequel of Transformers and last night I finally got to watch it. Just yesterday, there were reports of Megan Fox bagging the movie but that didn't put me off (her acting is pretty mediocre anyways).

Without giving too much away, the special effects were awesome and along with the old characters reprising their roles again, there was also the inclusion of several new Autobots (Mudflap and Skids with a few others) and Decepticons.

Maybe I'm still on a high after watching the movie but I give it a strong 4/5 stars.

Teaser

What classic movie is this quote from?

Mildred: what are you rebelling against Johnny?
Johnny: whaddya got?

Answer: The Wild One



Here's some trivia from the movie.

• The movie was deemed to dangerous and banned in the UK till 1968 (it was released in 1953)
• The Triumph motorcycle that Marlon Brando rides in the movie was his personal bike.
• This was the first film in which the manufacturer's logo on motorcycles was not blanked out.

Teaser

What classic movie is this quote from?

"Mildred: what are you rebelling against Johnny?
Johnny: whaddya got?"

Hint: it stars Marlon Brando

Answer on friday folks...