We'll Love Your Movie, Mike. Just Don't Eat Our Ears
Sporting documentaries have a general habit of being brilliant (Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, Hogan Knows Best) and few sportsmen have a better story than Mike Tyson. So we await James Toback's documentary on the ear-snacking boxer with some anticipation. Toback is making his doc on Tyson's life - which includes becoming the world champion, a rape conviction, losing his fortune, eating extraneous parts of Evander Holyfield and not being able to pronounce the letter S - with the man's full co-operation and promises a warts and all account. We predict this will be a knock out. Oh come on, we're allowed one boxing pun.
Apparently to some people this is good news
There are things worse than sitting through Wayans brothers movies. You could, for example, run into a lion enclosure and make a noise like a steak or listen to Mika sing a duet with a scraped blackboard or be Paris Hilton's cellmate. So, Dynomite should almost certainly be better than all those things. The gramatically rebellious movie is based on the brothers' comic book about a Shaft-like hero who is unfairly sent to prison and returns to the streets hopelessly out of touch. Marlon Wayans will play the title character and we will laugh and laugh at him and his zany ways*.
*OK, he was actually really good in Requiem For A Dream and The Ladykillers
Tim Allen Gone Kick Yo' Ass
Tim Allen has joined the cast of David Mamet's Redbelt. He'll play a troubled action star with marital problems who meets a Jiu-Jitsu master (Chiwetel Ejiofor) while being beaten up in a street fight. The master's purity is then challenged when he is drawn into the world of movies and pushed into fighting in street brawls. Wait, this is a David Mamet movie? The Glengary Glen Ross and The Untouchables David Mamet? Really? Don't get us wrong, that sounds indecently brilliant combining street brawls, daftness and sweary, snappy dialogue we're just surprised it's...seriously, the David Mamet? Right. OK, we're sold.