Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lucas, Spielberg, and Scorsese all get their well-deserved credit, but doesn’t Mel Brooks deserve a little more love for pumping out his own classic films in the 70s/early 80s? Chief among them is his parody of the Western genre, Blazing Saddles. The story revolves around a black sheriff put in charge of a racist town […]
Boomerang is one of the enduring black films of the 90s. On the surface it can be categorized as just ‘another Eddie Murphy movie,’ but really it’s so much more. The story revolved around a player named Marcus Graham, who gets the tables turned on him. Most of you probably know the story, so let’s […]
Hey, did, did someone correctly predict four out of five in the major categories? (And I said I could see Penelope winning, scroll down.) Maybe I should think about a career in the movie industry? No, this year was fairly predictable if you’ve been following awards season. Anyway, quick thoughts on the show in […]
Here are the nominees for Best Picture of the Year… The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire What could happen: Somebody could look at me with a straight face and tell me how The Dark Knight wasn’t one of the five best films to come out in the past […]
Here are the nominees for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture: Richard Jenkins in ‘The Visitor’ Frank Langella in ‘Frost/Nixon’ Sean Penn in ‘Milk’ Brad Pitt in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Mickey Rourke in ‘The Wrestler’ What Could Happen: This is probably, probably a two man race. Sean Penn […]
Here are the nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” Meryl Streep in “Doubt” Kate Winslet in “The Reader” What might happen: Anything. I’m not kidding. Anne Hathaway is clearly establishing herself as the ‘Next […]
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