“Whitest Oscars” – So What Else is New
Now that Gold Derby and Vulture have both written pieces about this possibly being the whitest Oscars ever it's time ...
Tag: The Butler
Santa Barbara Fetes Forest Whitaker
It was a cold night in Santa Barbara, one of the more beautiful places on the planet. The ocean stretches ...
Lenny Kravitz and Lee Daniels’ The Butler
My eleventh birthday was at the beginning of 1998. I remember a series of very formative years growing up, where ...
Forest Whitaker to Receive Santa Barbara Film Fest’s Kirk Douglas Award
The first big get of the season is Forest Whitaker being honored for the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence for ...
The State of the Race: The Ghosts of Our American Past Told Through Three Movies
2013 will end up being about a lot of things when the dust settles. It will be yet another year ...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler Takes Number One for Third Consecutive Weekend
Only three Best Picture nominees have ever been number one for 3 consecutive weeks, and no black writer/director is among ...
Why The Butler, Why Now
Now that The Butler has taken the box office for the second week in a row, on fewer screens than ...
The Butler, a Critics Pick by the NY Times, High Praise from Key Critics
These days, with film criticism, there aren't many of the good ones left. Too many film reviews now seem like ...
Fine early notices for The Butler, Oprah is “Electrifying”
The jury is still out on whether audiences will take to Lee Daniels' The Butler. I suspect they might find ...
New Clip from Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Oprah dances with Forest Whitaker in this new clip from Lee Daniels' The Butler: Another clip is over at People.com
New Poster for The Butler
I think this poster is a better teaser for the film - the embargo lifts on it fairly soon so ...
The Butler Gets new Title and Poster
The Butler will now be called Lee Daniels' The Butler, kind of like Precious Based on the Novel Push by ...
Harvey Weinstein Defends The Butler, “Important Civil Rights Movie.”
The news piece includes a clip for the film. I can tell by watching it that a certain breed of ...
The Butler Poster Debuts
I would have preferred this tagline, "back then there was only one way for a black man to get into ...
Trailer for Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The first trailer gives you two pieces of vital info. 1) it's distributed by The Weinstein Co. which also has ...
New Pic of Oprah from The Butler
Ms. Oprah just instagrammed this photo with Terrence Howard on the set of The Butler shooting their last scene.
The Weinstein Co to Distrib The Butler
Oscar Watch: Today, the Weinstein Co. announced that they will distribute the Lee Daniels film, which stars Forest Whitaker, among ...
US Presidents Are Popular
This season we have two of the nation's most beloved Presidents hitting the big screen. First, Daniel Day-Lewis as the ...
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