Arts & Entertainment
Try It!My Michigan: Local Screen Writer Returns Home to Promote Debut Film
Left: Jazmen Darnell Brown is a screenwriter born and raised in Lansing, MI with his mother, Dawn Brown at the screening of his feature film, “The Citizen”. Courtesy photosBy Deborah M. Walker
LANSING, MI — For the past five years, Jazmen Darnell Brown a 2003 J.W. Sexton High School graduate had been waiting anxiously for what would be his inauguration into the world of feature film writing. Since 2008, Brown had been working on his project trying perilously to explain his cinema venture to friends and family who were perplexed as to the extent of his work. Brown tried countless times to clarify and the grand scale of his work and now he can finally reveal the result of his endeavor.
Movie Review: Things Never Said
By Samantha Ofole-PrinceStudio: Raising Kane Films (112 minutes)
Plot: An aspiring poet in a troubled marriage starts a new relationship with a new man who helps her find her artistic voice.
Cast: Shanola Hampton, Elimu Nelson, Omari Hardwick, Tamala Jones, Dorian Missick, Michael Beach
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Movie Marks 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement
Carib Press — Starring Anika Noni Rose, Wood Harris and David Alan Grier, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” is the tale of a summer journey that leaves a family – and a nation – forever transformed.Movie Review: 2 Guns
Studio: Universal Pictures (1 hr. 49 min)Plot: Two crooked undercover officers unknowingly lead investigations on each other.
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paul Patton, Bill Paxton, James Marsden
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **1/2
“Comfort Food for the Mind, Body, and Soul”: DORITO CHICKEN BAKESTYLE
Take a favorite chip and make dinner!
Movie Review: World War Z
Studio: Paramount (1 hr. 55 min.)Plot: A United Nations employee tries to stop a pandemic that is threatening to decimate humanity.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox, Fana Mokena, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, David Morse.
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***
Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6
Studio: Universal (2 hrs. 10 mins.)Plot: Agent Luke Hobbs enlists Dominic Toretto and his team to bring down former Special Ops soldier Owen Shaw, leader of a unit specializing in vehicular warfare.
Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Luke Evens, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, and a Souped-up 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger.
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***
Movie Review: Iron Man 3
Studio: (2 hrs. 10 min.)Plot: When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Jon Favreau, Rebecca Hall
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: **1/2