Haitian Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis, LADYBRILLE MAN OF THE MONTH (EXCLUSIVE)

November’s Ladybrille Man of the Month is none other than the inspiring, handsome, very talented and generous Hollywood based Haitian actor, Jimmy Jean-Louis. Ladybrille’s Shana Peete reports. __________________________________________ It was on the television series Heroes where I first learned Jimmy Jean-Louis’s name, but I knew I had seen that striking countenance before.  After some digging, …

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Film Review: Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ With Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise

Black Feminist Classic Refreshed Courtesy of Tyler Perry Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf made a big splash when it debuted on Broadway back in the Seventies. The emotionally-draining “choreopoem” was essentially a series of soul-baring monologues plumbing the depths of the African-American female psyche on sensitive …

World Premiere: Ozwald Boateng ‘A Man’s Story’ (Trailer)

Ozwald Boateng premiered his fashion film ‘A Man’s Story’ at the Abu Dhabi Middle East International Film Festival yesterday. “Twelve years in the making, A Man’s Story (presented in the Documentary Competition) provides an insider’s look at the career of renowned British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng. The film was directed by Varon Bonicos, who has …