Published March 7, 2021, 7:40 PM
For this second March week, a trio of releases aim to bring some explosive-ness into our lives. With Eddie Murphy, it’s a laugh explosion that’s been on hiatus for 33 years. While in the case of Pixie, it’s guns and smart humor exploding across the Irish countryside; while the third, Sentinelle, should have been a full-out action film, but end up with a sputter.
Coming 2 America (Amazon Prime) – It’s been 33 years since we last watched Prince Hakeem (Eddie Murphy) makes his celebrated visit to New York from his native African land of Zamunda. Murphy has since joked about how his Zamunda is the original Wakanda; and while critics then were divided about the film, it was a commercial success, and made movie history as the first all-Black cast film to do well at the box-office. Well, despite going ‘meta’ at some point towards at the end of the film when one character remarks that sequels suck, it is good to welcome Murphy et al, back for this belated ‘better now than never’ outing.