Listen up, because this will probably happen to you some day. You’re sitting around the family manse with your obnoxious relatives, waiting for your super-rich uncle to shuffle off this mortal coil. Everybody’s boo-hooing in the next room, and will continue to do so until the old man kicks. At last the great moment arrives, and you and everyone you’re related to is rich! – until they find the will, and discover that Unc has left every last florin to the stinkin’ holy monks! What are you going to do? [Read more...]
Kudos to Tyler Perry for taking on this revered and seminal work that turned artistic expression inside out with its explosive energy on stage over 30 years ago. Master story teller that he is, Perry dug deep and grappled with the emotional core of the scattered monologues of the treasured text from Ntozake Shange’s award winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf and sculpted them into interweaving stories in this, his latest movie release. [Read more...]