(trailer review) - Crime 101

First of all, sometimes I hate seeing a bunch of familiar actors in a movie. Do not get me wrong, I do like a lot of these actors, but sometimes I wonder, why do you not have up-and-coming actors for movies that the audience do not know of, and not necessarily phase the already established actors out, but to at least bring new actors in, talented ones anyway. I know they do actually do this because how do you think Chris Hemsworth got her? With that said, I know Hollywood is about making money and having bankable talent, so when I saw the thumbnail initially, I wondered, who is in this? That looks like Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry (as my eyes focused towards the middle of the picture), so I did not even notice Chris Hemsworth really or the actor on the far right. But then, as I was watching the trailer, I found it hella fun to say, "Oh look, it's Hemsworth!" Nice seeing him in something else that isn't Marvel and playing Thor (not like he only does that and is only known for that, I mean he is Captain James T. Kirk's father and he is in other movies such as Extraction for Netflix, and other), but then I saw Halle Berry and my mind instantly went to Swordfish, thinking Hemsworth was in that, ummm, no he wasn't. But then my brain went back to Marvel and was like "Haha, it's Thor, Storm and the Hulk all in one movie", then realised when I saw Barry Keoghan, "Oh and the guy from Saltburn and Eternals!" I couldn't remember his character's name in Marvel, but it was a Marvel "collection" in my head. But as the trailer went on, I thought, this actually might actually be decent.

So the trailer starts off with Chris's character standing around on the roadside and being approached by Halle, who guesses the type of car Chris is waiting for. Later on, she states she is good at reading people. But as the trailer goes on, where it looks like he might be trying to recruit her for heists by assessing high value targets within her business as an insurer, it looks like Mark Ruffalo, (straight off of Task - because he is an officer in that and that looks great, i must see also), is the police officer trying to track these robberies along the I101 freeway and link the robberies to Chris and its a game of cat and mouse where Chris leaves evidence/clues out of habit per job, and Mark is closing in. The exchange in the car near the end is immaculate and reminded me a little bit of the Vulture and Spider-Man conversation in Homecoming. At this point in the movie, does Mark know he has the thief driving him or was that an innocent conversation? I think Mark knows, and it is all very intense. Seeing Corey Hawkins and Nick Nolte is nice, and I hope they have decent roles. When the trailer ended, I was like "THIS, I MUST SEE! Plus, I love the play on words, Crime 101.

(trailer review) - Being Eddie

Throughout my life, my introduction to the things and people I enjoy now and have always enjoyed over the years was through my cousin. My cousin was two years older than me, so even action figures got to him before me, you know? Those 15 and 18 films from the 80s and 90s, through him, I got to see them. The Running Man, Predator, Rambo, etc, I have mentioned this before, and it is true. As I think about it, I actually believe Eddie Murphy was also part of this list because of films like Trading Places, 48 Hours, Another 48 Hours, and Beverly Hills Cop. I am sure he had them on VHS. But I believe I made my own discovery or rediscovery of Eddie as I got older, because I remember being introduced to Eddie Murphy stand up comedy performances such as Delirious and Raw from a school mate and since then, pretty much all of the Eddie movies that came out after I were introduced to the stand ups (well, not all of them, but a fair bit), I watched, from Nutty Professor, Metro, Boomerang and Shrek, even Vampire in Brooklyn. I did stay away from some of Eddie's films like Dr Dolittle and Daddy Daycare, but Eddie was funny to me, so with that said, I think this doc is going to be great.

This looks great! From the moment it opens with one of the world's most gifted comedians today, with Dave Chapelle endorsing Eddie's genius and how he helped pave the way for a lot of the comics today, and also back in the 90s, solidified by what Jamie Foxx says, you know this is going to be a great documentary. Even Jerry Seinfeld says a piece, and Tracey Ellis Ross, who definitely has some ties to Eddie, as he would have met her mother back in his heyday. The shadow puppet of Donkey from Shrek definitely made me laugh, although he did not do the voice. Eddie states he wants to be in the room, everybody in the room and in between the gaps, this was such a great line as they show clips of Eddie as different characters in The Nutty Professor, something he also did earlier in his career along with Arsenio Hall in Coming to America in whom we also see in this trailer along with Kevin Hart and Chris Rock. It was a touch sad to see a Richard Pryor puppet, knowing how heavily Richard was an inspiration to Eddie, and if he were still alive, I am sure he would have been approached. Even Pete Davidson has something to say. I'm not in a rush to see this, but I definitely will. I mean, Axel F, the Netflix film that came out not too long ago, was actually decent from Netflix, so I do wonder what is Next from Eddie and Netflix going forward.