REVIEW!!! The Help

Always better to read the book AFTER seeing the movie

Well, good people, I saw The Help this week. While I sat there watching the story unfold, I had a nagging, confused feeling. Reading this review by an American journalist, Valerie Boyd, (after the jump) cleared up my nagging feeling and made me realize something very striking!! It's 2011, y'all. We're in a new century, a new millennium. Notice how we haven't had a major studio movie like Mississippi Burning or A Time to Kill (Sam Jackson's paternalistic fury in that movie was golden) in movie theaters until this one?? The Help falls significantly short of the disgusting, hard-to-watch, heinously evil and yet historically accurate depictions of inequality in the South in feature films.

Then again, this movie focuses on the lives of Southern WOMEN, not men. Notice that??

The rest of my thoughts, along with the link to Valerie Boyd's review and Official Featurette of The Help (Video) after the jump...

BISCUIT!!! The WEEKND - THURSDAY

Download Link Found Here

AHHHHHHHH!!

The Weeknd made my FRIGGIN night!!! Check the release that we've been waiting for!!!


PS: The new mixtape has been out for a few minutes and totally crashed the artist's website!!! If you weren't quick enough, I am so sorry but you'll have to wait my dears!!! Don't worry, i'll enjoy for you!!

Website of the weeknd via here...

Enjoy.

RIP: Joel Chin, Director of A&R and Executive Producer, VP Records

Joel Chin (via www.vprecords.com)

I'm very saddened to write this RIP post. Another bright light in the reggae music industry was extinguished on August 16th, 2011. I first read about it IN MY TWITTER FEED (oh, y'all didn't know that I tweet?) Strangely, though, the news of Joel Chin's murder did not send the shock waves through Twitterville and Facebook-land like I expected. In fact, it was relatively quiet on the social media front. Nothing rang out yesterday, at all. Am I the only one, as a lay music person, that had a wave of grief for Joel Chin?? Did you know who he was or what he did for reggae music?? But really, another senseless murder in Jamaica, so I guess I can see why the masses are complacent (BIG SMH).

More after the jump....