Articles by: L. Woo

Black History Month: The Yak Salutes Sammy Davis Jr.

Black History Month: The Yak Salutes Sammy Davis Jr.

by / on February 10, 2011, 11:21 am

In honor of Black History Month, we’d like to bring attention to Mr. Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy Jr. started off touring with his vaudeville- performing father, Sammy Sr. and joined the army during WWII where he experienced racism and segregation. [...]

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Lil’ Mama’s Movie Station: Avatar

Lil’ Mama’s Movie Station: Avatar

by / on January 6, 2010, 5:21 pm

Science meets greed in this gloriously-filmed movie from director James Cameron. It’s been in the works for several years- only taking a backseat to wait for technology to catch up to his vision. And what a vision it is! Click [...]

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Umrao Jaan- Indian- Foreign Film Fix

Umrao Jaan- Indian- Foreign Film Fix

by / on November 30, 2009, 2:13 pm

I LOVED the quick synopsis of this movie: girl is kidnapped and sold into a brothel; she meets a man…a man with MONEY!! Other girls in brothel are haters and give her a hard time. Okay, that was pretty quick [...]

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Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire

by / on November 22, 2009, 9:12 pm

In one word: wow. The critics of this movie are all shining about Mo’Nique as the evil, selfish, lazy mother to Clareece (Precious) Jones; as well they should. Mo’Nique is unrecognizable as the abusive mother of Precious, played by newcomer [...]

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Star Trek on DVD

by / on November 22, 2009, 9:02 pm

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana & John Cho. They are only a part of the group that make 2009’s Star Trek a wonderful success. Everyone played their parts so well that, even though a couple of characters were obvious, [...]

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