Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
Well, you guys know my code. I’ll constructively critique projects my friends work on, but can’t judge the things I have skin in. I was blessed to work on the first day of shooting of ‘Straight Outta Compton.’ I’ve done 3 person student films and the big Hollywood blockbusters. I say that to say it’s […]
Ryan and Mike teaming up again? I’m in. And ‘Rocky Balboa’ was one of the better movies in the Rocky series in my opinion. If they keep that general tone…
The new David Simon piece? Well I’ll keep my expectations reasonable… ‘Justice isn’t about popularity.’ ‘No…but politics is.’ David Simon, you son of a…
I could tell you more about Nina Simone as a ‘symbol’ than I could as an actual person. ‘What Happened Miss Simone?’ is a nice in to her life story for those of you like myself. Archival footage and interviews with her musical collaborators and family fill out the story of this incredibly complex woman. […]
(sipping tea…) My gut tells me if Bale was in this trailer, I’d be all over this. My gut also tells me that it was the right decision by all parties to move in a new version of the Dark Knight. I’m very biased since this week since I’ve started rebuilding my own body, but […]
About a year or so ago, we had a vote out here that made it a law that porn stars had to wear condoms during um, work hours’. So how did they respond? They moved to Miami and other places without the law. Well played, porn. That’s one of the interesting tidbits you learn in […]
George Miller (again!) to the action film genre and its audience: Just my two cents, but ‘Fury Road’ is the best kick in the ass to the genre since the first ‘Bourne’ film (i.e., ‘the rest of you have gotten lazy and keep falling on the same cliches, this is how you keep the audience […]
The numbers tell me this is post 1,000 on this site. ONE THOUSAND! So now is as good of a time as any to say thank you. Whether you come here daily, weekly, or whenever the mood strikes. Whether you come for the music or the politics. Whether you come to hear my opinions on […]
So let’s start with what a lot of us felt before shooting began: Andre 3000 is a great choice to play Jimi Hendrix. There’s enough in his style and cadence (and natural persona) to suggest Jimi without feeling like complete mimicry or impersonation. The story of this particular biopic covers the period of Hendrix leaving […]
Hmm… I don’t know what happened to the project Zoe was working on, but a pure documentary? You have my attention yet again Netflix…
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