It's nothing spectacular. I honestly feel like if you like, Tyler Perry, movies, you're gon na love this you know. I think that this is some of his best work and if you hate his movies kind of like I do their most recent movies, you're gon na be like this movie was trashed, but it was funny it was like funny trash you. Probably people was laughing. I think I enjoyed it a little bit more cuz, all the commentary person was gassing like and that's just like girl, okay, like we get it, but like we watching the movie chill out people talk to the screens and stuff. So I think that's why I had like a different reaction to it. Wasn'T as negative. I didn't walk out feeling like I wasted my life and my money, but I would never watch this movie again either. So for me, it's gon na be a wait. It's gon na be a wait. He took a step, a step like a big step like happy now you gon na say it felt like a half a step in the right direction, but it still just wasn't good. He still, but you know what I respect: Tyler Perry's hustle. I might now like his recent work. I respect his hustle. He knows who his audience is. He has a loyal fan base. We know that they gon na see this movie a hell. The movie might even be number one and Betar a ready player, one which is a better movie, but you just never know it's Easter weekend. People gon na have on a Sunday best and they gon na go watch the new Tyler Perry film yeah. So don't underestimate him, but I also feel like you can tell that while is crazy, that they filmed this in less than 10 days and taraji. I think she sold her piece and five to eight days in between filming for Empire. That's that green screen. I can tell you that they filmed in a green screen for a couple of scenes. You know exactly what I'm talking about and I was white Tyler. You can put a little bit more coins and that make it look like it was a green screen. I was just like: do better Tyler just do better, you can say your coins. I still make money. It'S still have you look a certain type of way don't be like skipping corners, okay, but yeah. Those are my thoughts on acrimony.
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Directed and narrated by hip hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Grass Is Greener ties the racial injustice associated with America's war on drugs and the criminalization (and eventual legalization) of marijuana to the developments of jazz, hip hop, and reggae. It features interviews with a handful of great musicians, including Snoop Dogg, Killer Mike, Damian Marley, Chuck D, DMC, B-Real, Doug E Fresh, and more, and it's equally about music, weed, and civil rights. It discusses the way old jazz records like Cab Calloway's "The Reefer Man" spread the word about pot in the early 20th century, and how dealers like Branson earned a reputation by being shouted out on rap records, and it includes the alarming quote from former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman saying, "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities." In an era where the current president is throwing fuel on racism's fire like Nixon was over half a century ago, this documentary is not just fascinating but also a necessary telling of history that we can really learn from today. [Andrew Sacher]
Frank Sinatra is the focal point of the two-part, four-hour Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, but like many great documentaries, this film is just as much about its subject as it's about the history that surrounded him. It touches on racial tensions in the 20th century, the mafia, John F. Kennedy, and more, as well as Ol' Blue Eyes' singing and acting career, his proto-rockstar superstardom, and the darker sides of his personal life. The history unfolds without on-screen interviews, using archival recordings of Sinatra, as well as stories by his children and ex-wives, and a few celebrity sound bites like Bruce Springsteen and the late Pete Hamill. You probably need even more than four hours to tell Frank Sinatra's story, but this very thorough film does not skimp on the details. [Andrew Sacher]
Nobody stars Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell, an auditor who used to work for a "three-letter" intelligence organization. At first, he seems like a passive individual who fails to act while two people rob his home, but the film ultimately reveals that he's a highly-methodical man, one with a history of violence. When "Nobody" sets off to find his daughter's missing bracelet, his life becomes entwined with that of a vicious Russian mob leader, Yulian Kuznetsov (Aleksei Serebryakov). The 2021 movie was written by Derek Kolstad, the creator of the John Wick franchise, and the influence is definitely noticeable. In fact, Nobody is widely considered a John Wick clone.
Relative difficulty: MediumTHEME: Celebrity baseball - OR - Celebrity possessives - "'S" is added to celebrity's first name to create possessive phrase, which is then cluedTheme answers:20A: Game equipment for an old sitcom star? (Lucille's ball)
35A: Game location for an actress? (Sally's field)
52A: Game site for a popular singer? (Neil's diamond)
This doesn't feel like a theme. I got LUCILLE'S BALL pretty quickly - or rather, I got LUCILLE and then wondered what the trick could be. If it's "baseball," then how does the changing of the first name to a possessive fit in, theme-wise? Seems an extra, unexplained wrinkle.I ran into just one problem in the grid, and it was major. Right around the "Ohio" region of the puzzle, I came to a dead stop at least a couple of times. 8D: Hand-to-hand fighting (combat) took far too long to come to me than it should have. But getting it (which I did, finally) should have made 9D: 8-Down ender easy. It Did Not. Since when does a TREATY end "hand-to-hand fighting." I know that the way it's clued, technically, a TREATY is supposed to end COMBAT, which is not wrong, but when that COMBAT is clued as the hand-to-hand variety (which suggests karate, pugilism, etc., i.e. one-on-one combat), then TREATY does not even show up on the radar as an appropriate word here. TRUCE would have been somewhat more expected. That, or KNOCKOUT. TREATIES are between peoples, states, nations. If COMBAT had been clued as simply [Fighting], I would have had a lot less trouble, conceptually.If you had any trouble with this puzzle, it likely involved one or more of the following answers:1D: Actor Snipes of "Blade" (Wesley) - a gimme, but experience tells me that many of you haven't the foggiest clue about pop culture post-Kennedy administration (if then), and I know only about six of you will have deigned to see "Blade," so...3D: Owner of MTV and BET (Viacom) - again, easy for pop culture fans, maybe not so easy for shut-ins like yourselves (I'm teasing!). Actually, a shut-in would probably watch a lot of TV.24A: Organic salt (oleate) - ????22D: Speaker's spot (lectern) - this word just wouldn't give itself up. For a while I had just the initial "L," and all I could think of was PODIUM, ROSTRUM (!?), and DAIS. Really needed the "C," which I finally got (last thing I filled in, I think), when I got...30A: Captains of industry (tycoons) - that is one cool word, now that I look at it. Sounds good, rhymes with "raccoons." Since I didn't have TREATY for a long time, I didn't have the "Y" here, just the initial "T," and as with LECTERN, the initial letter alone did nothing for me.41A: IBM/Apple product starting in the early 90's (Power PC) - I had one of these circa '95. The crazy consonantal pile-up at the end there looks good in the grid.42: A _____ (kind of reasoning) (priori) - I'm always surprised when this word shows up in the grid. Feels very specialized / esoteric, and yet I've seen it multiple times this past year.50D: Winston Churchill flashed it (V sign) - great clue. Gotta love an entry starting "VS..."Lastly I would like to GROUSE (45D: Bellyache) about 51D: Love of one's life (amour) ... in France, maybe. And even then, AMOUR is just love, not necessarily the hyperbolic kind suggested by the clue.Enjoy Monday.Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld 2ff7e9595c
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