“Comedy is what takes us away from all the pain and all the hurt and all the turmoil that goes on in life. It takes us away from that, even if only for a brief second, a brief moment.” Maybe you wouldn’t expect this level of depth from a man who’s made a career of being silly. Something else you might not expect? Even 30 years into his comedy career, he was still possessed by a nervous energy before getting on the stage for his 2016 special. So much of what has made Martin Lawrence successful is his ability to channel that nervous energy into something great and, more importantly, something funny.
But what drives that energy? For Martin, it may be the very pain, hurt, and turmoil he’s trying to help us escape. Despite his success, Martin’s life has been marked by challenges, from a difficult childhood to high-profile controversies.
But what drives that energy? For Martin, it may be the very pain, hurt, and turmoil he’s trying to help us escape. Despite his success, Martin’s life has been marked by challenges, from a difficult childhood to high-profile controversies.
- 6/14/2024
- by Derek Mitchell
- JoBlo.com
After the release of his critically acclaimed gay romance “Badhaai Do” in 2022, Harshvardhan Kulkarni was asked whether or not he was inspired by Kim Jho Gwang-Soo's “Two Weddings and a Funeral,” which had come out in Korea ten years prior. Kulkarni denied having seen Kim Jho's film and noted that the concept of “Lavender Marriages,” in which a man and a woman marry in order to hide that they're gay, is not new. He went as far as to compare it to the “Elopement Marriage” trope found in so many romance stories throughout history, but the truth is that queer marriages of convenience have factored into far fewer popular films. It's difficult, then, not to compare the two films, but Kim Jho's exploration of the idea is breezier and sillier at its best. Unfortunately, overwrought melodrama in the third act takes away from what is otherwise a winning rom-com.
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- 11/2/2023
- by Henry McKeand
- AsianMoviePulse
‘No Heaven, But Love’ will premiere at Jeonju film festival.
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has boarded two LGBTQ titles set to receive their world premieres at Jeonju International Film Festival – Han Jay’s teen romance No Heaven, But Love and KimJho Gwang-soo’s office romance The New Employee: The Movie.
No Heaven, But Love marks the second feature of director Han after 2020’s Take Me Home and will screen in the Korean Competition section of the festival, which runs April 27 to May 6.
The film stars Lee You-mi from Netflix’s Squid Game and Park Soo-yeon of House Of Hummingbird...
South Korean sales company M-Line Distribution has boarded two LGBTQ titles set to receive their world premieres at Jeonju International Film Festival – Han Jay’s teen romance No Heaven, But Love and KimJho Gwang-soo’s office romance The New Employee: The Movie.
No Heaven, But Love marks the second feature of director Han after 2020’s Take Me Home and will screen in the Korean Competition section of the festival, which runs April 27 to May 6.
The film stars Lee You-mi from Netflix’s Squid Game and Park Soo-yeon of House Of Hummingbird...
- 4/26/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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