Coming 2 America finds Akeem (Eddie Murphy) as the newly-crowned King of Zamunda, looking for a male heir rather than a bride, which takes him back to the Big Apple once he’s told he has an illegitimate son living there unaware of his royal bloodline. It’s almost a remake of the first adventure, but with Akeem’s son, Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), soon becoming the focus of a Coming to Zamunda movie. Or rather he should be the focus. One problem with…
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Toni Erdmann 2016
Sorry, but this doesn't deserve the acclaim festooned upon it. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, I see. Amazing.
Toni Erdmann is a German drama miss-sold as a comedy (the lead actress even agrees), about an eccentric father with a love of disguises, who pays his estranged career-minded daughter a surprise visit and proceeds to cause her great embarrassment.
Good idea. Funny idea. They're going to remake this with Kristen Wiig and Jack Nicholson. So someone clearly thinks it's a comedy in…
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Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
I was expecting to have lots of bones to pick with Bohemian Rhapsody, but to ultimately enjoy its spirit, the performance of Rami Malek (who got a 'Best Actor' Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury), and Queen's music...
I certainly wasn't expecting to find this as simplistic, hurried, and undramatic as it was, and heaven knows what the Academy was thinking when they voted for Malek---who's a great actor, but is only really doing a half-decent impersonation with some wigs and…