Tag: Coffee & Kareem
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‘Just Cause’: ‘Stuber’ Director To Take On Film Adaptation Of Popular Video Game Franchise
Over his past couple of features, “Stuber” and “Coffee & Kareem,” Michael Dowse has established himself as a director that loves to play with the combination of over-the-top violence and raunchy humor. And if there was ever a video game franchise that Dowse could apply that style to with a film adaptation, it would be…
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‘Coffee & Kareem’: An Awful, Exploitive, Tone-Deaf Riff On ’48 Hours’ & ‘Kindergarten Cop’ [Review]
The history of race-focused buddy-cop action-comedies goes something like this: two disparate people from disparate backgrounds—usually an asshole police officer and a person of color, who isn’t a cop (think “48 Hours“)—are unexpectedly thrust together when some crime goes awry. Through plot machinations, these two unlikely partners— usually detesting one another for various reasons, racial…
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‘Glow’ Star Betty Gilpin Joins Ed Helms in Netflix Crime Comedy ‘Coffee & Kareem’
Betty Gilpin, the Emmy-nominated star of Glow, has joined the cast of Netflix’s crime comedy Coffee & Kareem along with Terrence Little Gardenhigh, RonReaco Lee and Andrew Bachelor. Ed Helms and Taraji P. Henson are set to star in the film, which Michael Dowse (Stuber) is directing from a Black List script by Shane McCarthy.…