Availability
Select theaters May 14
Chris Rock stars as Detective Zeke Banks, the lone good apple in a rotten barrel who became persona non grata at the Metropolitan Police Department after reporting a fellow officer for murdering a civilian. (In perhaps this film’s most unbelievable twist, the cop served nine years for the crime.) Despite being the son of former police chief Marcus Banks (Samuel L. Jackson), Zeke is now an outsider, and it’s made him bitter, mistrustful, and short-tempered. His boss, Captain Angie Garza (Marisol Nichols), still believes in him, however, and puts Zeke and his rookie partner, William Schenk (Max Minghella), in charge of the case when the poor sucker who has his tongue ripped out before being hit by a train in the opening sequence the guy is played by Canadian actor Dan Petronijevic, a.k.a.
Hulu s Canadian comedy returns with seven episodes of relentless puns, callback jokes, brawling and verbose randiness.
Like many a new religious convert, I ve been proselytizing aggressively for
Letterkenny as I worked my way through eight seasons of the Canadian comedy over the past couple months.
That sounds like an impressive act of dedication except that
Letterkenny is tremendously good, moves quickly and, over those eight seasons, aired only 54 episodes, a number that included regular six-episode seasons and an annual holiday episode that Hulu tacked onto the end of each. You might have a tough time catching up before the ninth season hits Hulu Dec. 26 (a day earlier on Crave in Canada), but not so tough that you shouldn t make the effort.