Good movie, even if the formula is apparent.
With The Great Debaters Denzel Washington returns to the director's chair for the first time since Antwone Fisher in 2002. This is his second turn as a director. The film tells an inspiring story that helped plant the seeds for the civil rights movement. It is an important story that is enlightening and puts a positive spin on a dark spot in…

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 8:20 pm and is filed under Celebrity Gossip, Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The people who really need to see it might not care to be so educated by blackness — park your fears.
The fine cast of The Great Debaters, this well-told, sane and safe drama directed by Denzel Washington includes Nate Parker as Henry Lowe, Denzel Whitaker as James Farmer Jr., and Jurnee Smollett as Samatha Booke. The screenplay written by Robert Eisele chronicles just one of the achievements of Melvin B. Tolson, debate coach extraordinaire, during…

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Celebrity Gossip, Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

This film is, in many ways, the ?sports movie? I have been waiting to see.
It’s not often that a movie is such a crowd-pleaser that the audience responds with tumultuous applause not once but numerous times. That’s the reaction Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters inspired when I saw it in a crowded theater. Yes, the movie follows some tried and true underdog movie conventions, but rarely is it done so skillfully as…

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am and is filed under Celebrity Gossip, Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.