Eddie Murphy‘s “Harlem Nights” is an uninspired cross between “The Cotton Club” and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does. The movie starsRichard Pryoras a Harlem speakeasy owner and Murphy as his ...
“Harlem Nights” (citywide) opens with something shocking for an Eddie Murphy movie: unintentional humor. In glamorous script, the credits announce that this is a Paramount presentation, in association with Eddie Murphy Productions . . . of an Eddie Murphy film, starring . . . Eddie Murphy. ...
Then there’sJim EllisandPDR. He began an all-black swim team out of a West Philadelphia pool in the 1970s that became a competitive juggernaut and the inspiration of the 2007 movie“Pride.”I had the pleasure of writing about Ellis and the movie that year for what was thenAOL’s Black...