Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
A day of a Beatles playlist, and rehashing old stories with the homies that made me laugh myself to tears three different times, and now I’m out of tears. In a ‘We Are the Champions’ mood. So let me go backward one more time for this one. Very smart producing choice to get the people […]
So I think this dropped right before the Oscars… But, very tragically, one of the trailers that played before the movie I saw yesterday was ‘Sam Rockwell is the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan…but he has a heart of gold!’… So to say this is an evergreen joke is all too real… Brilliant. […]
My buddy Dio sent this trailer to me this morning, and… Let me get this straight… A character, surnamed Malik, is transported to an alternate universe where the Beatles didn’t exist, and HE becomes the Beatles?!? I’m not exaggerating; I’ve been so white hot with envy I’ve been walking around most of today looking like […]
Soderbergh’s latest, ‘High Flying Bird’ is now streaming on Netflix. A few quick points: Directed by Soderbergh is usually an automatic plus one. The ensemble is rounded out by Bill Duke, Zazie Beets, and Sonja Sohn. And when features usually take their time, this one clocked in at 90 minutes. That’s like a plus seven […]
Happy for my KU professor, Kevin Wilmott. Happy for Mahershala. Happy for the Black Panther crew. Happy for Ruth E. Carter. Happy for Regina. And of course, I’m happy for the Godfather. Anything can happen a month from now, but today we celebrate.
Three quick notes about the SAG Award nominated, ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Not all, but most artists, after they establish they can throw fastballs in one genre, want to branch out and prove they do other things. Especially actors. Melissa McCarthy is one of our best working comediennes, of course she wants to prove […]
Thrillers/Monster movies like this, I don’t consider to be my wheelhouse. But the people (box office) has spoken, this one even has a little Oscars buzz behind it, so I had to see it. A few thoughts… So, is Emily Blunt having a year, or is Emily Blunt having a year? I’ve always been a […]
Full disclosure: this was the song I’ve been working on for my singing reel. Then I saw ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, and, NOPE. My cover isn’t remotely this beautiful. So our musical start this week comes from my fellow Trojan, Kina Grannis. And if you haven’t seen ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ yet, trust me, it’s worth it. […]
I think all the outside stories (Viggo using the n word, Mahershala apologizing to Don Shirley’s family) have already killed any gold ‘Green Book’ might have been up for. I’ll just pick out a few things I thought about while watching this one. While this exact true story is new, the formula (black guy and […]
Motivation.
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