Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“That’s a lot of ice cream and Tay Tay concerts” A new era in The Fast and the Furious lore has begun almost four years after original co-star Paul Walker passed away doing exactly what his character Brian O’Conner did in the films: drive fast. With his role shelved by retirement rather than death, the […]
Category action/adventure, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Celestino Cornielle, Charlize Theron, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Chris Morgan, Dwayne Johnson, Elsa Pataky, F. Gary Gray, Fast & Furious 6, Jason Statham, Kristofer Hivju, Kurt Russell, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Nathalie Emmanuel, Paul Walker, Scott Eastwood, The Fast and the Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Fate of the Furious, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“Ya’ll ain’t never got two things that match” By age twenty Ice Cube had proven himself an originator of gangsta rap with the seminal Straight Outta Compton from N.W.A and AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted as a solo artist. Two years later his role in Boyz n the Hood garnered enough critical acclaim to cement the Los […]
Category comedy, drama, film reviews · Tags Angela Means, Anna Maria Horsford, Anthony Johnson, Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker, DJ Pooh, F. Gary Gray, Faizon Love, Friday, Ice Cube, John Witherspoon, Kathleen Bradley, Nia Long, Paula Jai Parker, Regina King, Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jr., Tony Cox
Posted by Jared Mobarak on August 18, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“Speak a little truth and people lose their minds” NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton is a conventional biopic. And I hate conventional biopics. It’s therefore a good thing its story is anything but. Between its time period containing an excess of racial and political strife to the void of a black voice filled by rap […]
Category biography, drama, film reviews · Tags Aldis Hodge, Andrea Berloff, Corey Hawkins, Dee Barnes, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, F. Gary Gray, Friday, Ice Cube, J.J. Fad, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Herman, Keith Stanfield, Marcc Rose, Marlon Yates Jr., Neil Brown Jr., O'Shea Jackson Jr., Paul Giamatti, R. Marcos Taylor, Straight Outta Compton
Posted by Jared Mobarak on March 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“You can’t fight fate” Another one is crossed off Hollywood’s famed ‘black list’—unproduced scripts so good they just have to be made. I had read an article about Kurt Wimmer’s Law Abiding Citizen and how Gerard Butler took it upon himself to help step save it from production hell, watching as Jamie Foxx signed on […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Equilibrium, F. Gary Gray, Fight Club, Fracture, Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Kurt Wimmer, Law Abiding Citizen, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, The Phantom of the Opera
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