Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
All I ask for in my action films is a fun ride with some great sequences. Colombiana delivered in spades; Zoe Saldana should be able to look back at this film with a lot of pride when she’s done. Is it a ‘B film’? Sure there were some plot holes that probably could have been […]
More than the other major leagues, the NBA as we know it today is known as ‘the black league.’ ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’ is one of the recent documentaries that takes us back to the time when blacks weren’t allowed to play professional basketball. The story revolves around the Harlem Rens, a black owned, […]
We all laughed, but the first thing that was said when the lights came up was “DC, get your shit together!” And that really sums up Captain America in a way. It’s another good but not flat out great comic book film that segways perfectly into the upcoming Avengers movie. Marvel had a plan, […]
Available on Netflix now is ‘The Tillman Story’, the documentary about the real (and not real) story of the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman. In my opinion it’s not the best documentary that covers our presence in Afghanistan (that would be Restrepo) but it’s an interesting film nonetheless. For those unfamiliar, Pat […]
For us ‘old heads’ who always talk about how good hip hop was in the 90s, one of the few groups that seemed like they were universally respected was A Tribe Called Quest. Michael Rappaport (who seems like a very cool dude but who will always be the cat who snapped in Higher Learning […]
Out now on video (and Netflix, where I got a hold of it) is one of the first films to give a perspective on being an (African-American) Muslim in the post 9/11 age. Mooz-lum stars Evan Ross as a young man going into his freshmen year of college, trying to find the right balance […]
The best way to start this is by saying I probably know more about the backstory of this character than most just through having a good friend who’s a diehard fan of this character, but in terms of my expectations for this movie, I wasn’t expecting to be blown away. And as I turns […]
No pun intended but ‘Super 8’ is in almost every way a throwback to an earlier generation of filmmaking. I know I’m not the first person to say this but the early works of Spielberg are all over this bad boy. You don’t have to be a film geek as much as you have […]
As you can probably guess, I know much more about the characters in the DC Universe than I do about the characters in the Marvel Universe. When Iron Man came out a couple years back, I was as ‘blind’ to the character’s backstory as possible. Thanks to my buddy Vahagn, I know a ‘little’ more […]
So awhile back my friend @thecheesefry turned me on to Flickchart, and I promised after I ranked 1000 films (a solid number I think for anyone who calls himself a film geek) that I would post what my favorites are. The question I used when ranking was this, “It’s Sunday afternoon, there is nothing on […]
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