The Tyler Perry Experience continues with "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which delivers what his mostly black and female audience wants: soap opera and broad comedy leavened with a Christian ...

That soft generic R& B music you hear playing in the background can only mean one thing: Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail By Tyler Perry Starring Tyler Perry opens tomorrow. It's an event that leaves ...

Tyler Perry’s ongoing gag of portraying an elderly 6-foot-5 black woman continues to entertain in Madea Goes to Jail. Directing, writing and starring in multiple roles within the film, Perry’s genius ...

The Tyler Perry Experience continues with "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which delivers what Perry's mostly black and female audience wants: soap opera and broad comedy leavened with a Christian ...

The law of diminishing returns catches up with Tyler Perry in this wildly uneven effort. Once again, Perry has concocted an ungainly mix of broad comedy, comically violent slapstick, sudsy ...

Is that Oscar nominee Viola Davis playing a straight-talking prison preacher in Tyler Perry’s latest, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail? And Dr. Phil? And Tom Joyner? Steve Harvey? Judge Mathis? The ...

On Oscar weekend, Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail” produced some needed gold for struggling Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. The new comedy shot to No. 1 at the box office with three-day estimated ...

Full analysis here including the controversy over Madea Goes To Jail. This latest (and, in terms of racial stereotyping, perhaps the worst) from Tyler Perry was the largest opening weekend gross on ...

Madea Goes to Jail would’ve benefited from being a straight-up comedy. The film makes use of an obvious gimmick, as writer-director Tyler Perry dresses in drag to portray the loud-mouthed old woman ...

Is that Oscar nominee Viola Davis playing a straight-talking prison preacher in Tyler Perry’s latest, “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail”? And Dr. Phil? And Tom Joyner? Steve Harvey? The cast of “The ...

As a white critic, I have mixed feelings about Perry’s movies: On the one hand, he gives wonderful actors an opportunity to work, the kind of approbation they don’t always get in Hollywood. This time ...