Movie Review: Foxx embodies &#39;Ray&#39; from the soul outward
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Head thrown back, smile overtaking his face and song pouring from his soul, he was a master of his craft, sharing his rapture with the world.
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Jamie Foxx wants to escape. A recent stop in Houston is a good example why. He has spent the morning promoting Ray, the new film in which he portrays singer Ray Charles.
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When you dominate the movie universe, it&#39;s as if you carry your own center of gravity with you. That&#39;s what it seemed like, anyway, with Michael Moore, attending this year&#39;s Toronto
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When the movie âRay,â about legendary singer Ray Charles, hits US theaters on Friday, âGeorgia on My Mindâ wonât be the only thing Hollywood is thinking about.
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Jamie Foxx isn&#39;t exactly a showbiz newcomer, but until Monday morning, he had never notched a Golden Globe nomination. But the comedian-turned-actor -- who first established himself on the
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Former Jet Darrol Ray said he was ready for Sundayâs big game. But he may be paying more attention to that dayâs soccer action than the Super Bowl.
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The first time you hear it, it almost sounds like heresy: Jamie Foxx, who first found fame as Ugly Wanda on the ribald TV comedy &quot;In Living Color,&quot; is playing Ray Charles, one of the most revered figures in American pop culture.
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past. Filmmaker Kerry Conran has made a soaring action adventure that&#39;s both a glorious labor of love and, in the end, irrelevant.
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Mira Nair's new film gets good reviews and good box office collections.
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Soul is everywhere in &quot;Ray.&quot; However, the lengthy biopic profiling music legend Ray Charles takes too long to find its heart.
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When the movie &quot;Ray,&quot; about legendary singer Ray Charles, hits US theaters on Friday, &quot;Georgia on My Mind&quot; won&#39;t be the only thing Hollywood is thinking about.
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It was a more-than-unpredictable night for Oscar winner Jamie Foxx at the American Music Awards program Tuesday at the Shrine Auditorium. Not only did he snag his first AMA, for best soul-R&amp;B male artist, but his biological mother attended the show. He hadn't seen her in years.
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In the tradition of great, and not so great, boxing movies, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" seems to have the makings of a classic.
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It&#39;s unlikely that anyone would have made a movie such as Ladder 49 before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Rather than piling on special effects, this down-to-earth
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Looking for inspiration, Jamie Foxx didn't see it in Ray Charles &#151; but he could hear it.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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On June 10, 2004, America lost one of its most influential and beloved musicians of all time: Ray Charles Robinson. A respectable tribute, âRayâ is a biopic profiling the life of the late Ray Charles, played here by Jamie Foxx.