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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
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It’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country. Still, with New York cinemas cautiously reopening this week and many other markets determined to bring moviegoing back, the studios and indie distributors alike are bringing many of their long-delayed releases onto screens, albeit in an entirely new way.
For contrasting examples, look at how two of the majors are handling what were intended to be family film tentpoles: Paramount decided to bypass theaters entirely with “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run,” using the title to launch its new subscription service, Paramount Plus (audiences can also rent it, at a price of $19.99, for a limited time via PVOD platforms). Disney tested a similar approach with