The Batman is well known to be my favorite fictional character. Popular for 70 years and running, I’m going to assume you know the basics either through regular pop culture or the massive success of the Chris Nolan movies. So the angle I’m taking here is to talk about my five favorite Batman stories […]
Among my college crew, there were three sets of guys. The first set were the guys who fit the Midwestern mold: meet your wife as a teenager or early 20s, get married, have a couple kids, the white picket fence, etc., all by your early 30s. The middle set were the guys who would […]
He’s a clown, he’s one of the funniest fools in Hollywood, but movies like The Soloist remind you that Jamie Foxx can really, really act. This film was originally supposed to come out during awards season; we got a long way to go to get to award season 09 but Jamie’s performance here could […]
This one makes me reminisce how good we had it in the 90s. I can pick up the phone right now and start quoting from this show to put my people into a laughing fit. For the uninitiated, Martin told the story of a Detroit DJ (Martin Payne) and his comical relationships with his […]
The first time I recall scaring my mother I was still in elementary school. I was straight A student, running for class president, pegged as ‘one of the good ones’ by church and family. Anyway, I remember making a comment along the lines of “being on top of the world and still having nothing.” […]
More than once, I’ve been asked by people ‘outside the target audience’ to explain the phenomenon of Madea and the Tyler Perry brand. My standard answer usually revolves around the fact that, while I don’t consider myself part of the target audience personally, Tyler Perry movies are the only films that come out that my […]
Enough people have picked up on this one both off screen (see the Photos section) and on screen (the short and some of my past roles) that I might as well acknowledge it. While I’m just another branch off Stella Adler’s ‘Method’ tree, and my social consciousness started with Malcolm, there are also multiple […]
A quick primer for those of you who are unfamiliar with where my loyalties lie… College Basketball: the Jayhawks. Do I enjoy playing the ‘sellout’ role a little too much for my KU friends? Probably. My first sports event ever, my father took me to Kemper Arena to watch the Final Four practice in […]
For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, most of this entry will be repetitive to you. As I make the transition from making a short film to making a feature film, I’ve already found that I’m frequently asked the two vital questions: Who are you and Why do you want to […]
Thrillers are one of my favorite genres, bar none. The ‘newsroom thriller’ has provided some great films over the years (most notably All The President’s Men). I read Roger Ebert’s review of this film; he thinks newspaper thrillers will continue, even if the newspaper itself dies off in the next couple of years. I […]
malikaziz.com 