A surprising Jamie Foxx
Maybe Jamie Foxx just has a knack for trailers that he doesn't show in films, but he's now showing in two such promotions surprising with their power. The first, playing before Anchorman at my local theater, is Collateral with Tom Cruise. Foxx is a cabbie; Cruise is a passenger and a killer. IMDB offers the trailer and more details.
The second film is Ray, the upcoming Ray Charles biopic. Trailers can always be deceiving, but Foxx practically brings his young version alive for me in this one. I've been skeptical of Foxx's musical abilities, but if he can pull off this movie, I'll take back my reticence. Yahoo has the trailer, and IMDB has details.
Related past entries:
-June 10, 2004: Ray's Music Exchange
-Jan. 13, 2004: Slow Jamz review
-Nov. 2, 2003: Philly taxi cab hustler
-Mar. 3, 2003: Taxi's Louie or Cheers' Carla?
Movie recommendation:
-Mr. T's finest film work, outside of Rocky III, and the A-Team, is undoubtedly 1983's D.C. Cab. A rag-tag band of hacks takes on rival cabbies and international terrorists on the early home-rule streets of Washington. Also starring Gary Busey, Bill Maher and Whitman Mayo (Grady from Sanford and Son), this inspiration for standardized test slacking is a comedic must-see for District natives and root-setting city immigrants. I'm not saying the film is Gone with the Wind, but sleepy Southernness early in the throes of Barry and deep in a ridiculous script does the job for me.
