Yasiin Bey Archives - Old Ain't Dead

Life of Crime, a dark comedy

4 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / October 5, 2022 / Daniel Schechter, Elmore Leonard, Isla Fisher, Jackie Brown, Jennifer Anniston, John Hawkes, Life of Crime, Mark Boone Junior, The Switch, Tim Robbins, Yasiin Bey

Life of Crime, a nearly 10 year old film that faded into obscurity quickly, is now hiding away deep inside HBO Max. It stars Jennifer Anniston with a charming ensemble cast around her. It’s actually an entertaining film.

Beyoncé and Adrian Brody in Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records, the music goes on

2 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / February 24, 2022 / Adrien Brody, Beyoncé, Cadillac Records, Cedric the Entertainer, Columbus Short, Eamonn Walker, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Yasiin Bey

Cadillac Records is a 2008 film that I just found on Netflix. It’s set in the 1950s in Chicago where a young Polish immigrant named Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) opened a recording studio and started promoting the music of Black blues musicians. This fictionalized biopic remains interesting, largely because the music is timeless.

Review: Begin Again

2 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / July 14, 2016 / Adam Levine, Begin Again, Catherine Keener, CeeLo Green, Hailee Steinfeld, James Corden, John Carney, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Yasiin Bey

How does Mark Ruffalo do it? Every time I see one of his movies I think, “This is Mark Ruffalo’s best performance ever.” Then I see another of his movies and I have the same feeling all over again. Welcome to Begin Again with Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley in two of their best performances ever.