This Week in Posters, With Tyler Perry’s Latest Masterpiece

Written by Vince Mancini / 12.06.12

Here’s the poster for Tyler Perry’s latest, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (oh, man, that title). With the snake circling the lady’s face shaped like an apple, you almost get the feeling there’s going to be some religious overtones to this one, am I right? Or maybe I’m just reading too much into this one. I can do that sometimes, where I see Biblical imagery in something totally innocuous, like a snake circling an apple on a red background with TEMPTATION in giant letters below it.

By the way, I’d love to be a marriage counselor in a Tyler Perry movie. That would be the easiest job in the world. “Hmm, let’s see… so you’re currently trapped in a loveless marriage in which your husband is a cold, distant workaholic who beats you and belittles you in front of the children, and you’re wondering if you should leave him for the attractive, independently wealthy widower with six-pack abs who sends you flowers every day and coaches softball for dyslexic kids? ….You know, I’m gonna be honest, this doesn’t seem like much of a conflict.”

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Dustin Hoffman directs Downton’s Dowager in directorial debut

Written by Vince Mancini / 07.02.12

As if it being about an English nursing home full of opera singers wasn’t enough to get me and my frat bros in the seats opening day, Quartet is also the directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, and stars Maggie Smith, the Dowager from Downton Abbey. DAMN, SON, this sh*t sounds hotter than San Felipe in Spring! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!

Lifelong friends Wilf [the venerable Billy Connolly] and Reggie, together with former colleague Cissy, are residents of Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Every year on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday, the residents unite to give a concert to raise funds for their home. But when Jean Horton, a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie’s ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home to everyone’s surprise, the plans for this year’s concert start to unravel. [Collider]

And thanks to SNL’s “Downton Abbey on Spike TV” sketch, I can never hear Maggie Smith’s name without immediately thinking, “Uh oh, you just pissed off the chicken lady.”

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