June, 2011

Swim Week makes its way back to Miami again with events that are perfect compliments to the summer HEAT. The week’s events of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim will take place at the Raleigh Hotel and the Swim and Lingerie Show 2011 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This year’s Mercedes-Benz Presents Designer is feature over twenty three designer from A.CHÃ, AQUA DI LARA, BEACH BUNNY SWIMWEAR, CAFFÉ SWIMWEAR, CIA.MARÍTIMA, CRYSTAL JIN, DIESEL, DINEILA BRAZIL, DOLORES CORTÉS, KOOEY SWIMWEAR AUSTRALIA, L*SPACE BY MONICA WISE, LISA BLUE, LULI FAMA, LUXE BY LISA VOGEL, MARA HOFFMAN SWIM, NICOLITA, NORMA KAMALI SWIMWEAR, POKO PANO, RED CARTER, SONIA VERA SWIMWEAR, WHITE SANDS AUSTRALIA, WILDFOX SWIM and a GROUP SHOW. Other events include American Black film Festival (ABFF) July 6-9 and Zo’s Summer Groove (ZSG) 15th Anniversary July 22-24

Actress Cherie Johnson is back After her role in the television sitcom ‘Punky Brewster’ Cherie co-starred in a popular 90’s sitcom ‘Family Matters’ as the best friend of Laura Winslow. She also had recurring roles in ‘The Parkers’ and ‘Days of Our Lives. In addition, she started an after school recreational program — Off the Streets — for kids whose parents worked late night. More recently, Cherie wrote, produced and starred in the movie ‘I Do … I Did!’ on DVD & BET, along with a long list of other available and upcoming DVD’s. Now Cherie has embarked on a new career as an author with the help of J.M. Benjamin, joining the A New Quality Publishing family.

Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas the Hangover is back with Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu’s wedding in the Director chair again is Todd Phillips. The original movie box-office instant success in 2009 “THE HANGOVER” made a great demand for a sequel. The original screenplay also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and received multiple other accolades. The Hangover kept audience laughing at every turn from beginning to end, which created a lot of expectations for a good sequel; Unfortunately this sequel does not measure up to the task.

Everyone, signup for the sequel “THE HANGOVER 2” which mean all the friends from the original movie are back. Phil play actor Bradley Cooper, Alan play by actor Zack Galifianakis and Doug play by actor Justin Bartha travel to see Stu play by actor Ed Helms for a subdued pre-wedding brunch. Only this time he is getting married to Lauren play by actress Jamie Chung in Thailand. However, Stu’s quite and uneventful evening the night before his wedding goes terribly wrong once again.

The premise is exactly like the first movie, they wake up in a room the next day, no one remembers what happened, someone is missing, they experienced various forbidden pleasures and did questionable things and basically all the jokes from the first movie are repeated here.

The movie lacks imagination and originality compare to the first movie. As a critic for all appearance purposes this is a remake of the original and not even a good remake. For all this reasons, I give this movie a D-