The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Review)
I graduated from a small, predominantly white High School in Northern California in 1989 and that summer, the theater where I hung out showed Spike Lee’s controversial film Do the Right Thing. As a burgeoning film buff I excitedly saw it opening night and was completely mortified and then, soon after that feeling passed, scared and angry. How dare this “racist” filmmaker make a film that encouraged black people to riot? How is it fair...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Dan Aykroyd!
When he’s not busy shilling vodka or recording his entertaining and insightful radio show “The House of Blues Radio Hour,” Dan Ackroyd is still making movies. At least, he’s getting bit roles in movies these days. His last appearances were in the forgettable Get On Up and the nearly unwatchable Tammy but it wasn’t so long ago Aykroyd was an A-Lister. He wants those days to happen again and was the driving force behind the new Paul...