Barbershop (movie)

A magnetic actress tackles a taboo subject in 'Unspeakable Act'

2013-05-17 08:11:00

"In the spring of 2011, at the age of 18, my brother Matthew got his first real girlfriend," says the 17-year-old protagonist of "The Unspeakable Act" in voiceover as we see her riding her bike down leafy, idyllic streets in Brooklyn. "I had somehow...

Del Close: Dueling scripts detail improv pioneer

2013-03-18 14:41:00

Charna Halpern's script about her late iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) co-founder Del Close opens with the vastly influential, hard-living, difficult, brilliant improvisation pioneer glimpsing a TV on which his former student Betty Thomas is thanking him...

Steve Harvey's relationship rules come to amusing life in 'Think Like a Man' ✭✭✭

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Relaxed yet lively, the byplay in "Think Like a Man" has some of the spark of director Tim Story's "Barbershop" a decade ago. The movie may be the very definition of contrivance, coming as it does from the blithely sexist relationship guide "Act Like a...

Is 'Man of Steel' super for business?

2011-09-06 15:15:00

The fake 7-Eleven gas station will soon be cleared out to make way for an Oktoberfest celebration, and the Smallville's Best Pizza sign will eventually be taken off of Uncle Lar's Pizza restaurant, but the city of Plano, which last month hosted 14 days of...

PG-13; 2:00 running time Relaxed yet lively, the byplay in "Think Like a Man"has some of the spark of director Tim Story's "Barbershop" a decade ago.

2012-04-19 00:00:00

After his debut in "Boyz," the rapper went on to thrive in his film career -- in addition to becoming a major music producer -- starring in several film series, including the "Friday" movies, the "Barbershop" movies and the family-oriented "Are We There Yet?" movies. Ice Cube just wrapped

2011-07-25 19:57:42

The alcoholic son of an alcoholic, sales manager Nick Porter was born in a Raymond Carver short story called "Why Don't You Dance?" published in the 1981 Carver collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

2011-05-09 00:00:00