This isn’t the Good Times of your childhood.
Yvette Nicole Brown, who voices the character of Beverly Evans in the new animated version of Good Times for Netflix, promises it will be an “edgier, more irreverent” reboot of Norman Lear‘s groundbreaking TV sitcom.
After one of Brown’s followers wrote on X Wednesday that “I’m surprised you attached yourself to this project. Looks nothing like the show we grew up on,” Brown responded with a promise that the reboot will offer as much, if not more, than the original.
“This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times of our childhood but it’s still a show about family, fighting the system and working to make things better despite where you start out in the world,” Brown wrote. “That 100% lines up with my values.”
This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times...
Yvette Nicole Brown, who voices the character of Beverly Evans in the new animated version of Good Times for Netflix, promises it will be an “edgier, more irreverent” reboot of Norman Lear‘s groundbreaking TV sitcom.
After one of Brown’s followers wrote on X Wednesday that “I’m surprised you attached yourself to this project. Looks nothing like the show we grew up on,” Brown responded with a promise that the reboot will offer as much, if not more, than the original.
“This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times of our childhood but it’s still a show about family, fighting the system and working to make things better despite where you start out in the world,” Brown wrote. “That 100% lines up with my values.”
This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times...
- 3/27/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has slotted Friday, April 12 for the premiere of Good Times, the animated series reboot of the late Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom. We’re also getting a first look in the trailer above.
J.B. Smoove (Reggie Evans) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Beverly Evans) star along with Jay Pharoah (Junior Evans), Marsai Martin (Grey Evans), Gerald “Slink” Johnson (Dalvin Evans) and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola (Lashes by Lisa)
Per the logline, the animated Good Times series finds the latest generation of the Evans family, cab driver Reggie (Smoove) and his wife, the ever-aspirational Beverly (Brown), scratching and surviving in one of the last remaining housing projects in Chicago along with their teenage artist son, Junior (Pharoah), activist daughter Grey (Martin), and drug dealing infant son, Dalvin (Johnson). It turns out the more things change the more they stay the same and keeping your head above water in a system with...
J.B. Smoove (Reggie Evans) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Beverly Evans) star along with Jay Pharoah (Junior Evans), Marsai Martin (Grey Evans), Gerald “Slink” Johnson (Dalvin Evans) and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola (Lashes by Lisa)
Per the logline, the animated Good Times series finds the latest generation of the Evans family, cab driver Reggie (Smoove) and his wife, the ever-aspirational Beverly (Brown), scratching and surviving in one of the last remaining housing projects in Chicago along with their teenage artist son, Junior (Pharoah), activist daughter Grey (Martin), and drug dealing infant son, Dalvin (Johnson). It turns out the more things change the more they stay the same and keeping your head above water in a system with...
- 3/27/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
DVD & Digital Release: Nov. 6, 2013
Price: DVD $26.95
Studio: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm
The story of the 2012 documentary film Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story begins with an earlier documentary, one that was made in 1965.
In ’65, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a .Mississippi: A Portrait for NBC News about the changing times in the American South and the tensions of life in the Mississippi Delta during the civil rights struggle. The film was broadcast in May 1966 and outraged many Southern viewers, in part, because it included an extraordinary scene featuring a local African-American waiter named Booker Wright. Wright, who worked at a local “whites only” restaurant in Greenwood, Ms. Wright delivered a stunning, heartfelt and inflammatory monologue exploding the myth about who he was and how he felt about his position serving the local white community. The fallout for Booker Wright was extreme: He lost his job and was beaten and ostracized by...
Price: DVD $26.95
Studio: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm
The story of the 2012 documentary film Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story begins with an earlier documentary, one that was made in 1965.
In ’65, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a .Mississippi: A Portrait for NBC News about the changing times in the American South and the tensions of life in the Mississippi Delta during the civil rights struggle. The film was broadcast in May 1966 and outraged many Southern viewers, in part, because it included an extraordinary scene featuring a local African-American waiter named Booker Wright. Wright, who worked at a local “whites only” restaurant in Greenwood, Ms. Wright delivered a stunning, heartfelt and inflammatory monologue exploding the myth about who he was and how he felt about his position serving the local white community. The fallout for Booker Wright was extreme: He lost his job and was beaten and ostracized by...
- 11/13/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Whenever the annual terrible "Every Breath You Take" mediocre creepy roommate/stalker film gets excreted on the unexpected masses like German porn, the names of the greats are heralded: Single White Female, and Fatal Attraction, and Taxi Driver. Well, of course. But what makes the trend more aggravating is that there have been plenty of recent independent films (in the last decade at least) that are far superior and have gotten little to know love. Are they at the same level as the Grand Prix of Lionel Richie "Hello"? Not necessarily, but they are pretty damn good nonetheless.
The Loved Ones (2009)
Brent (Xavier Samuel) just wanted to spend his prom night with his girlfriend. But Lola (Robin McLeavy), a loner obsessed with Brent, and her crazy father (John Brumpton) decide to kidnap Brent and torture him into loving Lola. Another gruesome entry from the Australia horror market. This was Sean Byrne's first feature film.
The Loved Ones (2009)
Brent (Xavier Samuel) just wanted to spend his prom night with his girlfriend. But Lola (Robin McLeavy), a loner obsessed with Brent, and her crazy father (John Brumpton) decide to kidnap Brent and torture him into loving Lola. Another gruesome entry from the Australia horror market. This was Sean Byrne's first feature film.
- 2/7/2011
- by Brian Prisco
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