Friday nights on Studio Universal on DStv are dedicated to
comedy, presenting the most side-splitting silliness and slapstick Hollywood
has to offer. This month’s movies check in on famous faces before they made their
names.
Don’t Be a Menace to
South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (January 23rd) may seem
an oddly familiar title – that’s because this early effort from the Wayans
brothers gleefully mocks every familiar trope from films showing the mean
underside of America’s inner cities. How will young Ashtray cope when he finds
himself in a ludicrously tough new neighbourhood?
You might wonder why Teaching
Mrs Tingle (January 30) qualifies. Surely Helen Mirren was already a star
when she played the eponymous steely teacher? True, but Katie Holmes was a new arrival,
and she co-stars as the driven student determined that Tingle’s grudge won’t
stand in the way of her being valedictorian at the class graduation ceremony.
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