Ice Cube Archives - From | The | Balcony https://fromthebalcony.com/tag/ice-cube/ Remade, rebooted, or reimagined every 5 years. Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:45:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 64136672 22 Jump Street (2014) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/22-jump-street-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=22-jump-street-2014 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/22-jump-street-2014/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:30:54 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=2869 Just because you know you’re a lame retread doesn’t mean you’re not a lame retread. Such is the lesson to be learned from 22 Jump Street, a self-aware sequel to the very good 2012 original that earns some early laughs before disintegrating into screaming matches and just plain unfunny, repetitive… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/22-jump-street-2014/feed/ 0 2869 Ride Along (2014) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/ride-along-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ride-along-2014 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/ride-along-2014/#respond Wed, 28 May 2014 15:17:21 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=1962 Ride Along is about as close as you can get to being a cartoon without being animated. It’s a pretty exhaustive vehicle for funny man Kevin Hart, who can be very funny in smaller doses, but here expends all goodwill by the end of the second act by just never… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/ride-along-2014/feed/ 0 1962 Rampart (2011) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/rampart-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rampart-2011 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/rampart-2011/#respond Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:00:45 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=1295 Rampart faces the age-old dilemma where the lead performance is better than the film itself. This is, perhaps, Woody Harrelson’s best performance, but he’s stuck in a narrative that’s never in a big hurry to get anywhere. Just when you think it’s about to come to a dynamite resolution, it… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/rampart-2011/feed/ 0 1295 First Sunday (2008) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/first-sunday-2008/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-sunday-2008 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/first-sunday-2008/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:00:01 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=953 A SNL skit stretched out by about eighty-five minutes, First Sunday is a comedy of the most desperate type. It goes for slapstick. When that doesn’t work it tries one-liners. When that doesn’t work it goes for sentimentality. Stuck in the middle are Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan, two occasionally… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/first-sunday-2008/feed/ 0 953 Are We There Yet? (2005) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/are-we-there-yet-2005/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-we-there-yet-2005 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/are-we-there-yet-2005/#respond Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:00:58 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=291 Even the tagline to Are We There Yet? is wrong. Now that may be a first. Throughout the film we are constantly reminded that Nick and the woman he hopes to date by driving her kids from Portland to Vancouver, Suzanne, are not boyfriend and girlfriend. Consider this error foreshadowing… Continue reading

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