Nuff Said!

When I saw the cast for Antoine Fuqua’s new film Brooklyn’s Finest, I know this would be on the list of the CGN crews next movie screening.

The gritty urban crime drama stars, are you ready?  Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton, Vincent D’Onofrio

and not mentioned in the cast line up  Michael Kenneth Williams who played Omar in the Wire.  Let’s recap for a minute, you have Antoine Fuqua who directed Denzel Washington in Training Day who won for Best Actor,

directing Wesley Snipes,  Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke who was also nominated for best supporting actor. I’m glad to see their bringing back the OGs  for Brooklyn’s Finest,  show em how it’s done! peep the restricted promo trailer (more…)

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Via:The Internet Indiana Jones.

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James is about to make some major paper with this one.

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Footage from Iron Man was presented at this years Comic-Con. The 5min promo reveals some new characters and plots.

The footage is bootlegged, but hey a sneak peak is a sneak peak, turn up the volume.

-Prolific-

It’s been a rough summer, especially for those of us who were kids or teens in the 80s.  Our icons are dying and I’m talking MVP’s.  Michael Jackson’s death hit me HARD, much harder than I ever would have imagined.  It wasn’t just the man or his music that stopped, it was my childhood that stopped, froze in mid-air and dropped off into this chasm called “The Past”.

Now, with the news of another MVP who helped me come-of- age, John Hughes’, I’m officially sad both for the man and my childhood.  I watched Molly Ringwald (justifiably!) pout her way through “16 Candles” and then get her man in the end (oh, how I LOVED Jake Ryan) no less than 30 times.  I am still mesmerized by that movie to this day. And don’t even get me started on “Some Kind of Wonderful”, “She’s Having a Baby” or “The Breakfast Club” all “some kind of” cinematic perfection.  Hughes was ahead of his time. His soundtracks unforgettable and his characters heartbreakingly relatable.  I watched his films as if they contained the secrets of the universe within them.  And you know what?  For me, an American, suburban kid growing up in the 80s and 90s… they did. -Miss. Ash-

For more on John Hughes... or check out the John Hughes Film Montage (more…)

I’m looking forward to the much delayed post-apocalyptic film The Road, based on the Pulitzer Award winning  book by Author Cormac McCarthy(No Country for Old Men).
The film stars Vigo Mortenson and Charlize Theron.

Georgia over at Microphone Memory Emotion has a cool write up about the 20th anniversary of Do The Right Thing.

“YOU STEPPED ON MY BRAND NEW AIR JORDANS” (for the clip) (more…)

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is going to be some trippy ish.
I wasn’t feeling Johnny Depp’s rendition of Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder’s performance is the best there’ll ever be in my opinion . Hopefully Depp’s role as the Mad Hatter will make him synonymous with children’s classic.

These production stills showcase Tim Burton’s brilliance in capturing the imaginary and often horrifying world of Wonderland. For more pics of the major characters  (Helana Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway also star.)-Setty Mac- (more…)

When Prolific sent this link  I had to peep it immediately on my slow ass iPhone. That says a lot, I rarely use it to watch YouTube videos because The 3G is WACK. Anyways I digress. Bill Withers, The Black Man’s Bob Dylan.

I grew up listening to his music in my dad’s car on his 8 track and I often wondered why Bill disappeared. Perhaps popular music no longer had a need for him, their loss. “Still Bill” is the new documentary chronicling  the songwriter’s career.

The CGN crew is looking forward to this one, as he’s inspiration to us all.
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DJ Prolific and Setty Mack