20 April 2015-04-20
Out in the UK This Week Annie (Sony, cert PG) The “Black Annieâ this has been called. With the button-cute Beast of the Southern Wildâs QuvenzhanĂ© Wallis in the lead as Annie and Jamie Foxx in the Daddy Warbucks role and with Jada Pinkett and Will Smith producing, you could call it that, if these things matter to you. If they donât, what you get is perhaps the epitome of the âturn that frown upside downâ musical, carefully updated â Annie is no longer an orphan but a foster kid, Foxx is a cell phone billionaire, a couple of new songs have been added to the familiar ones (Hard Knock Life, Tomorrow, I … Read more