Yet another project dumped by Third Rail Releasing, the Weinstein Company subsidiary that previously gave us – very few of us, actually – Killshot and Outlander, The Janky Promoters opened last Friday on fewer than two dozen screens nationwide. In Houston, it opened... well, to be entirely accurate, in the far-flung suburb of Webster, at a $2-a-ticket second-run multiplex tucked into a strip shopping center. Even there, however, a handful of Ice Cube fans showed up on a rainy Tuesday evening to see the movie. A small handful, to be sure, but a handful nonetheless. Good for us: It was, truly, a bonding experience. You can read my Variety review of The Janky Promoters here.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Review: The Janky Promoters
Yet another project dumped by Third Rail Releasing, the Weinstein Company subsidiary that previously gave us – very few of us, actually – Killshot and Outlander, The Janky Promoters opened last Friday on fewer than two dozen screens nationwide. In Houston, it opened... well, to be entirely accurate, in the far-flung suburb of Webster, at a $2-a-ticket second-run multiplex tucked into a strip shopping center. Even there, however, a handful of Ice Cube fans showed up on a rainy Tuesday evening to see the movie. A small handful, to be sure, but a handful nonetheless. Good for us: It was, truly, a bonding experience. You can read my Variety review of The Janky Promoters here. 
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The Longshots
Whatever marquee allure Ice Cube established in the family-entertainment market with Are We There Yet? and Are We Done Yet? will be sorely tested by The Longshots, an inspirational sports drama that, although "inspired by a true story," unwinds like the most formulaic of fiction. A surprisingly tepid directorial effort by Limp Bizkit nu-metal rocker Fred Durst, the movie seldom deviates from the genre-cliche playbook while recounting the plucky efforts of a small-town 11-year-old (Keke Palmer of Aleekah and the Bee) who's coached by her uncle (Cube) to become the first girl to compete in the Pop Warner national football championship. You can read my Variety review here.
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