Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

Edwardo Jackson is the author of the novels EVER AFTER and NEVA HAFTA, (Villard/Random House), a writer for The 213 Magazine, and an LA-based screenwriter. Visit his website at www.edwardojackson.com where his new novel I DO? is available NOW.

Movie Biases: C’mon now – you tell me!
Major Players: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, co-writer Paul Haggis, director Marc Forster.
Logline: Avenging the death of his duplicitous love Vesper Lynd, James Bond (Craig) pursues a wealthy, shady environmentalist (Mathieu Amalric) who’s cutting deals with the CIA, Bolivian government, and a nefarious, power-hungry dictator (Joaquin Cosio) [...]

Movie Biases: I like to move it move it – again!
Major Players: Voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bernie Mac.
Logline: When their airplane crashes over the African bush while heading home to New York, Alex (Stiller) is reunited with his long lost lion father Zuba (Mac), [...]

Movie Biases: Loved “Snatch” – looks like Ritchie in his element.
Major Players: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, writer/director Guy Ritchie
Logline: A real estate deal between a gangster (Wilkinson) and a shady Russian businessman (Karel Roden) sucks in the London underworld around two robberies of 7 million euros each, a missing [...]

I live in Atlanta, GA, a city that is predominantly, blissfully black. One of the hottest new catchphrases where I live that follows shortly after a “Shawty what yo’ name is?” or an “Eh, my man!” is “Have you voted???”
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, thirty-five percent of eligible voters in the state [...]

Biases: C’mon – look at the title!
Major Players: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Justin Long, Jason Mewes, writer/director Kevin Smith
Logline: Cash-strapped lifelong best friends and roommates Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) decide to make an adult film, only to find that there may be more to their friendship when they’re the stars of their [...]

PRIDE AND GLORY (R)
Biases: Nice cast, but generic-looking cops-gone-bad trailer.
Players: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, co-writer Joe Carnahan, co-writer/director Gavin O’Connor
Logline: A messy bloodbath of four murdered NYPD cops takes reluctant investigator Ray Tierney (Norton) down a rabbit hole of police corruption inside his police chief father’s (Voight) department, with all roads leading to [...]

RELIGULOUS (R)
MOVIE BIASES:
As an agnostic and fan “Real Time with Bill Maher,” bring it on.
MAJOR PLAYERS:
Bill Maher (HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”) and director Larry Charles (Borat).
Remember when there used to be separation between church and state? Or, better yet, WHY there’s supposed to be such a separation? In an age where [...]

MOVIE BIASES:
Pre-sold – but I hear it’s long as hell.
MAJOR PLAYERS:
Derek Luke, Laz Alonso, Michael Ealy, director Spike Lee
Logline:
A cold-blooded murder by a World War II vet (Alonso) in 1983 unravels a flashback involving the untold story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the first all-black infantry unit in the U.S. Army, and the bond they [...]

MOVIE BIASES:
Oh God (pun intended), here we go again…
MAJOR PLAYERS:
Alfre Woodard (Love and Basketball), Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball), Taraji P. Henson (Talk to Me), Rockmond Dunbar (TV’s “Prison Break”), Kathy Bates (Misery), Cole Hauser (Paparazzi), and actor/producer/writer/director Tyler Perry (Meet the Browns).
It’s like a semiannual tradition by now: Tyler Perry releases a film and [...]

BANGKOK DANGEROUS (R)
Biases: Smells fishy, but I’m still curious.
Players: Nicolas Cage, The Pang Brothers
Logline: Contract killer Joe (Cage) lives a solitary existence until he decides to take on one last job in Thailand, one that exposes him to acquiring a protege (Shahkrit Yamnarm) and a love interest (Charlie Yeung), thereby endangering his work.
“Bangkok: it’s corrupt, [...]