There are many reasons not to like "Black Irish." Brad Gann, who wrote and directed the film, has packed so much melodrama into the 92-minute film that he makes Lifetime movies look tepid. The coming-of-age drama about 15-year-old Cole McKay (remarkably played by Michael Angarano) and his dysfunctional family relies on exaggerated conflict and stereotypical use of Irish-Catholic guilt to tell a rather simple moral: While you can't choose where you come from, you can choose where you're going. (0) comments
Southie, for Bostonians at least, is as much an idea as a neighborhood. South Boston, as it's called by the uninitiated, huddles along the Mystic River as though clutching a railing for support, an aging dame long settled into her rough skin. Duplexes, with their peeling paint and cracked window frames, look out on narrow streets where Irish Catholics have played street hockey for generations, where communion comes to suggest not just an act of faith but also a state of being. (5) comments
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition Saturday at 1 p.m. UCLA - Schoenberg Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave. Sunday at 5 p.m. Kodak Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd. This weekend, some of the best rising jazz trumpeters will face off in a competition honoring living jazz piano legend Herbie Hancock. (0) comments
Something I hear all the time in studio casting, is that I'll ask 'Why can't we do color-blind casting?' And they'll respond, 'Do you think a white kid in Middle America can relate to a black face or an Asian face?' And I say 'Yes! I've been relating to white faces in movies all these years!'" That was Justin Lin, who spoke recently at an event sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Services to promote his new film "Finishing the Game. (0) comments
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