by paige on December 12, 2008
- Elizabeth Peña, John Leguizamo and Debra Messing. (Overture Pictures photo)
I WAS ALL set to write a post alerting my movie-loving virtual sisters to two films opening this weekend, with sisterhood figuring prominently in the storytelling, when an unexpected email arrived. It came from another sisterhood (and brotherhood) of my life: my graduate-school alumni group. A fellow alumna was asking everyone on the alumni mailing list to support a movie she was involved in producing…a movie opening this weekend…a movie I was just sitting down to write about. [click to continue…]
by paige on December 1, 2008
IS IT ALWAYS like this? Are there always movies about sisters in the theaters, or is just a fluke of this late-fall, pre-holiday movie season? Whatever the cause, there are three Sisflix to choose from in theaters now. Have you seen any or all?
The first to be released, The Secret Life of Bees, stars Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah in the adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. I’ll probably get some hate mail for this, but I tend to avoid Dakota Fanning movies. Preternaturally precocious child stars give me the heebie-jeebies nowadays. (Meaning, now that I’m a grown up. I loved them when I was a kid–just read what I have to say about The Goodbye Girl if you don’t believe me.) I also loved this book, which makes seeing the movie a scary proposition. Can anyone convince me that I should go? I love the other actresses, especially the super-gorgeous, super-talented Sophie Okonedo. [click to continue…]
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