Chris Rock has caught a little flack for remaking 2007’s Death at a Funeral, since the original is only a couple years old, and was critically very well received. No one could really understand why anyone would want to remake a film so new already in English. At least this remake that he is planning [...]
This feels like an early 90s reunion of SNL, with the exception of Kevin James. It is hard to believe that Rock and Sandler once worked together on the popular sketch show, and even harder to believe they were let go. Now, both Rock and Sandler are two of the biggest names in comedy. Spade [...]
When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head. Rock visits hair salons [...]
That is the word on the street I guess. Originally Eddie Murphy was attached, but I think Wayans might actually be the better choice. Murphy as one of the highest grossing film actors of all time would be hard to disassociate from Richard Pryor in a film like this. I’m still not sure I like [...]
Chris Rock has signed on to be the star of Will You Be My Black Friend?, which could go down as possibly the funniest film title I’ve ever read. The concept looks interesting, but I’m afraid that in our all to PC culture that someone is going to get offended. I can’t help but think [...]
Slated for a 2010 release, “Grown Ups” is the story of five best friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade) from high school. The group reunites in their home town thirty years later, after their basketball coach passes away, and decide to spend the 4th of July weekend at [...]
Only two years after the big screen sleeper “Death at a Funeral” was released in 2007, someone has already found the need to remake it. Why? I am not quite sure actually. The “original” movie, directed by Frank Oz, was excellent. Set in Britain, during a wacky funeral, everything seems to go wrong that could [...]