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Review By: John Burrell Jr.
RELEASE DATE: December 12, 2014
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures

DIRECTOR: Chris Rock

MPAA RATING: R (for strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout and some drug use)

SCREENWRITER: Chris Rock

STARRING: Rosario Dawson, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock,Whoopi Goldberg, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer,Sherri Shepherd, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld,JB Smoove, Jay Pharoah, Anders Holm, Michael Che

GENRE: Comedy

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Chris Rock has returned to the big screen with a new film entitled Top Five (which references picking a top five list of your favorite rap artists of all time). It’s about Andre Allen, a comedian / recovering alcoholic who was the top dog in comedy until his habits caught up with him. Now, as a sober individual he wants the world to take him seriously and he doesn’t want to be funny anymore. This prompts him to release a film about a slave rebellion where thousands of whites were killed. Needless to say it’s gonna be a struggle to get that to play well to audiences. And with the inclusion of his reality TV wedding on the horizon and a reporter following him around to interview him things may be too much for the funny man to handle.

First things first, the incomparable Rosario Dawson is in it and she is awesome as usual. She’s funny when needed and drama is no problem. Rock as Andre Allen is cool actually because he essentially gets to play himself but a little different. He calls in a slew of his famous and not so famous comedian friends for this one and it works for the most part as they take their situations and run with them. Some play characters and some play themselves. The funniest two were Jerry Seinfeld in a strip club and a surprise comedic appearance by DMX. The one thing I did notice was that were some things that you could see coming a mile away. It wasn’t like I was looking for some great Hitchcock type twist but I maybe would have liked to not to be able to predict events way ahead of schedule. Other than that, I rather enjoyed the film.

Top Five will have you laughing throughout and after the movie. If you can stand hearing the N-word more than a few times and some awe inspiring raunchiness you’ll like this one. I recommend it highly if you’re looking for a laugh.

(Oh and side note my Top Five are: Notorious B.I.G., Scarface, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco and my sixth man is Kanye West.)

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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