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John Amos Wants to Join the Coming to America Sequel and Hopes to Sell Zebra and Hippo Burgers at McDowell’s
In case you didn’t know, Coming to America is … coming back. In fact, they’re going full cheesy and titling it Coming 2 America. Anyway. In 2017, interests were piqued when it was announced Kenya Barris (black-ish) would be rewriting the script, originally penned by Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield, who wrote the 1988 original.…
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2019 So Black: 10 Black Films and TV Shows Worth Looking Forward To
As 2018 gets ready to make her final curtain call curtsy, 2019 is about to strut onto the stage with a fierceness rivaling your favorite diva. We’ve looked back; we’re looking forward. Back back, forth and forth. Since President Processed Cheese is still in office, there may not be much to look forward to in…
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Eddie Murphy Now Has 10 Kids. Insert Obvious Raw Joke Here.
Eddie Murphy’s seed is superfluous. The legendary comedian and his fiancée, Australian model Paige Butcher, have welcomed a baby boy, Max Charles Murphy. Murphy’s publicist released the birth announcement on Monday via CBS News. Baby Max entered the world on Friday, Nov. 30 at 6 pounds, 11 ounces; he and his mother are doing well.…
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10 Reasons Why Coming to America Is the Best Black Movie of All Time
I’m a black-movie connoisseur and African-American-movie advocate. If a black movie exists, I’m checking it out and I don’t care what country it comes from. My Netflix queue tells me that movies like You Got Served and True to the Game are popular on Netflix. We all know that’s a lie. My Amazon Prime queue?…
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10 Reasons Why Mr. Church Is the Most Magical Negro Who Ever Magically Negro’d
In 2016, there was a whole lot of hubbub when the trailer for the Eddie Murphy-helmed movie Mr. Church hit the streets. It’s a movie based on a story by Susan McMartin and the time she spent with her own real-life Mr. Church. It looked like a film where Eddie was playing a pantheon-level Magical…
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The Golden Child Is One of the Most Awesome Terrible Movies Ever
Because God or whomever you pray to clearly has a sense of humor, The Golden Child comes on network television and cable way more often than it should. The movie, released in 1986, is the story of Chandler Jarrell, played by a super-bankable ’80s Eddie Murphy, who is dubbed the “Chosen One” to save a…
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Boomerang at 25 Isn’t Just a ’90s Eddie Murphy Flick; It’s a World We Want to Live In
It is a Friday night on the set of 1992’s romantic comedy Boomerang. In between shooting takes for the now classic Thanksgiving-dinner scene, Eddie Murphy and cast trade jokes about what would happen if Mr. and Mrs. Jackson (John Witherspoon and BeBe Drake) had sex in the bathroom of his character Marcus’s luxurious New York…