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“OUTSTANDING: A COMEDY REVOLUTION” My rating: B (Netflix)
100 minutes | No MPAA rating
Part history lesson, part celebration of out culture, Page Hurwitz’s “Outstanding” digs into the world of gay standup comics.
Remarkably, Hurwitz has so much material to work with that there’s merely a passing reference to Ellen DeGeneres, the once and future queen of lgbtq+ comics.
There are the usual clips of the comics doing their thing on stage and on the TV screen. Among the notable talking heads who help put it all in perspective are Bruce Vilanch, Rosie O’Donnell, Guy Barnum, Lily Tomlin and Margaret Cho.
Big chunks of the doc are dedicated to iconic male lover performers like Robin Tyler (quite possibly the first out comedienne of the modern era) and style icon and angry observer Sandra Bernhard, who added some spice to the boring Reagan years.
And near the end the movie looks into the rise of the new lesbian comics like Fortune Feimster and Hannah Gadsby.
If I have a criticism of the film it’s that it overwhelming deals with lesbian comics over gay men…although much attention is paid to Eddie Izzard, whose adopt of trans ethos puts him in a class by himself.
Some of the
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
This fourth movie in the accepted '80s franchise, which fizzled out 30 years ago, brings memorable characters and elements into the present while attempting to iron out some now-obsolete attitudes. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F does what a sequel should do, incorporating what worked in the originals (and what fans of a certain age will be looking for) and updating aspects to beat, though not perfectly, fit the times. This combo potentially sets the franchise on a course for a future. You see it in the renewal of older characters and the addition of new, younger ones, like Gordon-Levitt's Abbott and Paige's Jane. You listento it in the soundtrack, which runs from the Glenn Frey-Bob Seger sounds of the originals to Mary J. Blige and a Lil Nas X remix of the theme song. And, most essentially, you see the old-new blend in ideas, dialogues, and storylines.
It's not the '80s anymore, and even macho cops now can't let their manhood feel easily threatened. They strive to respect women and recognize when therapy, an apology, or some tenderness might help their relationships. The fish-out-of-water concept of plopping Black Detroit cop Murphy into majority-White, upscale
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Movie Review
Axel Foley is loved by the Detroit Police Department. He’s solved numerous cases, put hordes of bad guys behind bars and cost the city thousands, if not millions, of dollars in damages while doing so.
Did I say loved? I meant loathed.
But Detroit isn’t the only place Axel has made a designate for himself. In California, the legendary cop is similarly loathed by the Beverly Hills PD—and for pretty much the equal reasons.
So when former Beverly Hills cop Billy Rosewood calls Axel for help, Chief Taggart is none too pleased.
Sure, Taggart loves Axel personally: Foley has arrive in clutch on three other cases before. They’re old pals. But professionally? He knows it might be simpler to retire than take on the paperwork that comes with an Axel Foley case.
Nevertheless, nothing is going to stop Axel from helping on the case this time—mostly because it involves Axel’s estranged daughter, Jane.
Jane is an attorney defending Sam Enriquez, an alleged cop killer and drug smuggler who claims he’s innocent.
Jane believes the man was set up. Rosewood does, too. And when the two start poking around for evidence, Jane nearly loses her life and Rosewo
Beverly Hills Cop Was a Valentine to Renegade Police. The New Movie Shots a Different Spin.
“You fucked up a perfectly wonderful lie,” Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley says to two Beverly Hills police officers in the smash 1984 hit Beverly Hills Cop. Foley, a Detroit police officer conducting his have freelance investigation in California, just convinced the two straitlaced local officers to join him in a strip club, where Foley foiled an attempted robbery. Covering everyone, he tells the BHPD lieutenant that in fact it was “supercops” Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) who made the bust. When the abashed officers admit that Foley did it all, Foley is befuddled. “I’m trying to figure you guys out, but I haven’t yet,” he says. “But it’s cool.”
It’s challenging to overstate how notable the first Beverly Hills Cop made Eddie Murphy. The movie topped the box office for 13 straight weeks, from December 1984 to March 1985, and became the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history. Murphy made a triumphant return to host Saturday Night Live; he made Paramount piles of money; he made an album so dead-serious that his cover photo—Eddie leaning against a white piano—was