Arts & Entertainment
The Royalaires Still Performing After 43 Years
Top Left to Right: Charles James, Miller Mendenhall, James Jones, Jay Johnson, Nathaniel McGhee and Henry Rogers
Below Left to Right: Johnnie Risper, Dennis Johnson and Joe Lane
Book Review 8-19
As Barack and Michelle Obama get ready to celebrate their 17th anniversary–their first as President and First Lady–on October 3rd, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen claims they are “the most real, down-to-earth, quintessentially American First Couple we’ve ever had in the White House. Whatever your politics, it’s almost impossible not to admire them on a personal level.”
TYLER PERRY DETAILS HIS OWN CHILDHOOD ABUSE
Filmmaker goes all the way there in latest e-mail blast to promote ‘Precious.’
Book Review 8-18

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster
Released: September 22, 2009
ISBN: 781439158906
Blackflix.com Movie News Presents: I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Studio: Lionsgate
Plot: Three siblings realize they’ve picked the wrong house to rob when they come face-to-face with the quick-tempered matriarch Madea.
Cast: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J. Blige, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Freddy Sigla
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***
Blackflix.com Movie News Presents:Inglourious Bastards
Studio: Universal Pictures (2 hours 32 minutes)
Plot: A group of Jewish American soldiers wage a brutal guerilla war against Nazis.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Jacky Ido, Til Schweiger
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Book Review 8-16

Meet much loved Michigan author Beverly Jenkins, as she talks about her 2009 release Bring on the Blessings
BlackflixMovieNews.com Presents: Fragments

Fragments
Studio:PeaceArch Entertainment
Plot: A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a diner.
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Josh Hutcherson
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **
By Samantha Ofole-Prince

Raving review for “Skin”