Mariah Carey was initially told that doing the movie Precious wouldn’t be good for her career. She took on the project anyway, and showed fans a side of herself she never did before. But in order to ...

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With Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey as executive producers, this drama about an obese, illiterate black teen in Harlem practically guarantees some emotional uplift. But when it arrives, eventually, its ...

"Precious" is a powerful film. Let's just get that out of the way right at the top. The question then becomes: is this a good movie? Well, I guess it all depends on what your definition of "good" is. ...

Writer-director Mehran Amrohi, who has struggled for ten years to finally get his directorial debut into movie theatres, deserves a standing ovation for his minimalist masterpiece. Chidiya is a gem of ...