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There’s a difference between getting out and being pushed out. Youngblood Priest (Trevor Jackson) wants the former. He’s risen from the tutelage of the legendary street runner Scatter (Michael K. Williams) to become Atlanta’s top drug dealer. Women who willingly know their place in Priest’s life are on each arm in Georgia (Lex Scott Davis) […]
Read More SuperFly (2018): Movie Man JacksonWith the recent trailer drop of the new Superfly movie, now is as good of a time as ever to view what has inspired it. Time to step into the Cadillac Eldorado and revisit the original, 1972 offering of Super Fly. THE STORY: Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) lives large in the Rotten Apple that is New York […]
Read More What to Watch: Super Fly (1972)Do the right thing and play by the rules. This is the paraphrased mantra coming from his father that Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) has lived by. The Nigerian immigrant has set up shop in Chicago, married to Bonnie (Thandie Newton) and working for a pharmaceutical company called Promethium. It is run by his arrogant college […]
Read More Gringo: Movie Man JacksonDo not trust the process. Surgeon Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) can’t have a much better life than he does. Living far away from the mess of inner-city Chicago, he spends his off days being a great father to his daughter, Jordan (Camila Morrone) and a great husband to wife, Lucy (Elisabeth Shue). There’s a lot […]
Read More Death Wish: Movie Man JacksonYou think it’s a game?! Game Night isn’t just a night for Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams), it is a religion; a way of life if you will. The two met during trivia in college and have been inseparable ever since. They make a great team, hosting game night once a week with neighborhood […]
Read More Game Night: Movie Man JacksonShould have flown. Oh wait…nevermind. Sixty year-old Michael McCauley lives as basic as one can in their sixties; mortgage, wife (Elizabeth McGovern), and soon-to-be-college-student son (Dean-Charles Chapman). He’s prepping for retirement in roughly five years from his financial adviser position, a role he took some years back after serving in the New York police force. […]
Read More The Commuter: Movie Man JacksonThis is Grand Theft Auto V played out on the silver screen. Los Angeles is the home of many things, including (apparently) the most bank robberies. Heading a crew of career criminals and military men is Merriman (Pablo Schreiber), who’s got the right-hand man in Enson (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) and talented driver Donnie (O’Shea […]
Read More Den of Thieves: Movie Man JacksonDoes it really pay the cost to be the boss? Depends on who you’re dealing with. In 1973, the richest man in the world happens to be John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), amassing his immense fortune in oil. No kids of his own, but he has fourteen grandchildren, one of them being John Paul Getty […]
Read More All the Money in the World: Movie Man JacksonThere is no one-size-fits-all method for dealing with grief. But for Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), she would appear to be in the stages of anger/depression. It’s been roughly seven months since she lost her daughter, a victim of a rape murder. Believing that her town and the local law enforcement is doing nothing to solve […]
Read More Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Movie Man JacksonEveryone is a suspect…and connected by six degrees of separation. After a demanding case solved in Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh)—the world’s greatest detective—is allowing himself some R&R in Istanbul. The best laid plans never go according to plan, as durign his time away from work, Poirot is called to London to investigate a case. […]
Read More Murder on the Orient Express: Movie Man Jackson