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Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall go back to NEW RELEASES New DVDs Tribune News Service Following is a partial schedule of Zamunda for some nostalgic movie tourism coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: By Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune ”Coming 2 America” March 2 “Monster Hunter” The 33-years-later sequel “Com- HH ½ “Fatale” ing 2 America” starts poorly but gets “Half Brothers” funnier and more likable as it goes, Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari “Pinocchio” and it’s stolen by a newcomer to this Headley “All My Life” particular nostalgia tour: Wesley Director: Craig Brewer “Doctor Who: Revolution of the Snipes, fopping it up as the military Daleks” Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes dictator of Nextdoria. For those who “Scare Me” don’t know their mythical African Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual “Zappa” geography, Nextdoria is the neigh- content, language and drug content) boring country to the better-known March 9 Zamunda, ruled by the dying King Showing at: Available to stream on “Vanguard” Jaffe Joffer (cameo by James Earl Amazon Prime Video “Adverse” Jones) and soon to be turned over to “American Skin” our old friend Prince Akeem, por- It’s not an especially well-made “IP Man: Kung Fu Master” trayed by Eddie Murphy. film. Director Brewer made a bet- “Riviera: Season 2” No longer a grinning naif, Mur- ter Eddie Murphy comedy two years ago with “Dolemite Is My March 16 phy’s prince has mellowed, if not re- “Promising Young Woman” ceded, into a new role: royal straight Name.” The editing feels jumpy and “Brothers by Blood” man for his co-stars. In 1988, at the prone to nervous cutting, and until the midpoint, “Coming 2 America” “Des” peak of Murphy’s superstardom, Eddie Murphy, right, and Arsenio Hall, far left, star in “Coming 2 America.” Amazon bumps along on collective moviego- “Don’t Tell a Soul” “Coming to America” allowed the Studios/courtesy “Saturday Night Live” and “Bever- ing memories rather than finesse. “Money Plane” ly Hills Cop” alum to lean into a rel- are back, of course, playing four mercurial leader, Gen. Izzi But there’s a modest kick in watch- “PG: Psycho Goreman” atively conventional but – for roles apiece, including the Queens (Snipes), will attack Zamunda un- ing these people get together again, “Sheep And Wolves: Pig Deal” Hollywood – rare Black showcase of barbershop regulars. Director less Akeem returns to New York and relocating familiar characters “Songbird” commercial romantic comedy. Its Craig Brewer’s sequel, working and fetches the son (Jermaine to a new century leads to some shifts March 23 storyline was something out of an from a script by Barry W. Blaustein, Fowler as Lavelle) he never knew in tone. The old guys at the barber- “News of the World” ancient, lily-white operetta: A Justin Kanew and Kenya Barris, he had. “I will find this bastard of shop complain that they can’t say “Castlevania Season 3” what they used to be able to say, prince from a fictional faraway land turns more of the narrative over to Queens!” Akeem declares. “Hero Dog: The Journey Home” sidesteps an arranged marriage by the women, which is a big change Along with Snipes, who scores back when their banter was rated R “Soulmates, Season 1” seeking, and finding, a true love from the casually rampant misogy- laughs with the most singular vocal instead of PG-13, and before it was “The Undoing Limited Series” match in the borough of Queens, ny of the first one. In other words, flourishes and most nuanced mug- #TimesUp for anything. New York. the bare-breasted bathing atten- ging in modern movies, the newbies “I’m so sorry you can no longer in- “Coming to America” was direct- dants are nowhere to be found (can- to the “Coming to America” uni- discriminately touch a woman’s New games ed by John Landis, and there’s a cel culture! even in Zamunda!), verse include Leslie Jones as body at your every whim,” Akeem The following is a list of video story or two behind that, as Murphy though the joke returns in a gender Akeem’s one-off from the old days; says to the barbershop proprietor at games scheduled for release relayed in a 1990 Playboy interview. reversal. Tracy Morgan, as Lavelle’s uncle; one point, and it’s hard not to hear next week, according to The movie became a hit, though Akeem and his Queens-bred and Nomzamo Mbatha, a warm, hu- that as Murphy Then consoling www.ign.com. Release dates many white critics at the time didn’t queen-to-be, Lisa (Shari Headley) manizing asset as palace groomer Murphy Now. Mbatha refers to the are subject to change. go for it. (Roger Ebert called it “le- live in harmony with their three Mirembe and, for Lavelle, an in- randy Queens preacher (Hall, re- “Stronghold: Warlords” (PC. thargic.”) Countless millions can daughters (KiKi Layne, Eddie’s valuable mentor. These two are prising a role from the ’88 film) as “a Genre: Strategy. Rating: Not quote the barbershop trash-talk daughter Bella Murphy and Akiley destined for each other; the movie womanizing, sexist officiant.” You available) zingers and crack up at the mere Love). The eldest daughter is a clear works that out in due course, while wonder if the movie’s heart is really “Apex Legends” (Xbox One, mention of the soul band “Sexual and shining heiress to the throne, working in material for bounce- in the apologies; sincere or not, the PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo script’s wit beams on and off. But Chocolate.” Those millions are the but ancient custom prevents her backs from the first movie. I was es- Switch. Genre: Shooter, Battle there’s a dance-party finale, and the reason we now have “Coming 2 from being next in line. Meantime, pecially pleased to see John Amos Royale. Rating: Teen) America,” the scattershot but genial the king’s shaman (Hall, encased in again as Akeem’s father-in-law, viewer glides into the bungled-out- follow-up streaming on Amazon. latex and decrepit dental work) now the proprietor of Zamunda’s take end credits in an easygoing “Crayta” (Stadia, PC. Genre: Murphy and co-star Arsenio Hall foresees a scary vision. Nexdoria’s first McDowell’s franchise. mood. Productivity, Editor. Rating: Teen) “Doodle Devil: 3volution” (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, ALBUM REVIEWS Nintendo Switch, Xbox One. Genre: Puzzle. Rating: Pending) The Philadelphia Inquirer “Monster Energy Supercross -The Official Videogame 4” (PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Stadia, Xbox One, PlayStation 4. Genre: Racing. Rating: Everyone) “Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time” (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. Genre: Platformer. Rating: Everyone) “Pascal’s Wager” (iPhone, Android, PC. Genre: Action, RPG. Rating: Not available)

New music “OPEN DOOR POLICY” “LITTLE OBLIVIONS” “MIGRATION OF SILENCE The following is a partial list of titles released Friday. THE HOLD STEADY (POSITIVE JAMS/ JULIEN BAKER (MATADOR) HHH ½ INTO AND OUT OF THE Compiled by Keith Coombes of THIRTY TIGERS) HHH TONE WORLD” Julien Baker commands attention on stage with Ernie November HHH Eighteen years into their career, The Hold just the sound of her voice and guitar. She’s WILLIAM PARKER (RECORD LABEL) Chase Atlantic, “Beauty In Steady aren’t seeking to win new converts. But expert at holding audiences rapt with Bassist William Parker is revered as a Death” “Open Door Policy” does work some slight unadorned, emotionally fraught songs that turn cornerstone of free jazz, an improviser with a Black Sabbath, “Heaven And changes into their rousing bar-band anthems of noisy concert halls into hushed, hallowed spaces. vast palette and expansive imagination who has Hell” and “Mob Rules” Deluxe bad decisions and flawed redemption. In some ways, “Little Oblivions,” the 25-year-old been an integral member of projects led by such Reissue 2-CD They bring in a horn section to drive several Memphis songwriter’s third album, which is self- icons as Cecil Taylor and David S. Ware. But that tracks, including the highlights “Family Farm” produced, feels like a departure from that five-decade history only comprises one part of Chevelle, “Niratias” approach. Parker’s prolific and stunningly diverse output. and “Unpleasant Breakfast,” and they back off A Day To Remember, “You’re their standard gigantic riffs in favor of more The arrangements are fleshed out, with a grand, He’s also a bandleader, a poet, a political activist Welcome” medium-tempo story songs with more nuanced full-band sound she created playing most and a community organizer who co-founded Demon Hunter, “Songs Of arrangements. Not that “Open Door Policy” is instruments herself. Her engineer, Calvin Lauber, New York’s Vision Festival, an annual celebration Death And Resurrection” mellow: It’s still loud, dense with words, triple also chipped in, and Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy of avant-garde jazz. His new 10-CD box set shifts guitars and Franz Nicolay’s florid piano. Dacus, Baker’s bandmates in indie supergroup the focus to Parker, the composer. Fruit Bats, “Pet Parade” boygenius, contribute backup vocals. So many words! Nearly 4,000 of them on the Despite what the ambitious scale and the “Music Gabrielle, “Do It Again” 44-minute album, and the voluble Craig Finn still But while the bigger sound offers Baker a of William Parker” subtitle might suggest, this is Kings Of Leon, “When You See has elaborate stories to declaim in his talk- barrier she could hide behind, she has no interest not a career retrospective. The set represents 10 Yourself” singing voice. in shielding herself. The opening of the first song, hours of new music, each disc centered on a Recorded pre-pandemic, it’s a more cohesive “Hardline,” makes plain there’s extraordinary different ensemble, theme, and repertoire. Zara Larsson, “Poster Girl” album than the 2019 return-to-form collection confessional music ahead in which the singer While the music on “Migration of Silence” is Jimbo Mathus/Andrew Bird, “Thrashing Thru the Passion,” full of characters in will not be going easy on herself for choices she’s typical of Parker in its challenging “These 13” unfulfilling jobs and dysfunctional relationships made. experimentalism and space for daring free making poor pharmacological choices. “Blacked out on a weekday; is there something improvisation, what’s most striking is how Pat Metheny, “Road To The Sun” Finn is a master of the telling detail, often that I’m trying to avoid?” she sings, as the music accessible this music is for any listener with a alliterative: a ringtone that plays Van Halen’s swells. “Start asking for forgiveness in advance sense of adventure and curiosity. My Morning Jacket, “At “Eruption,” a penthouse “with the windowpane for all the future things I will destroy.” Much of it is song-based, however abstractly the Dawn” 20th Anniversary Deluxe walls,” “the grackles at the snack bar waging “Little Oblivions” explores themes of addiction, its word “song” might be interpreted. Funk grooves Reissue war for popcorn and potato chips.” He treats his consequences, and recovery. But Baker doesn’t do and chamber music, folk tunes and global Rad, “Original Motion Picture messy characters with empathy while the band easy moralizing here. Both life and the music – traditions all cross streams in fascinating and Soundtrack” CD/Vinyl celebrates them with rock-and-roll. which draws on Baker’s experience in punk bands unexpected ways. – get messy. “Bloodshot” and “Relative Fiction” Skold, “Dies Irae” – Steve Klinge One album features solo pieces written for the achieve a rare beauty. The songs are all the more Japanese pianist Eri Yamamoto, another a string Tigers Jaw, “I Won’t Care How harrowing because they confront demons once quartet. One full set is dedicated to classic Italian You Remember Me” thought safely locked away. filmmakers like Fellini and Antonioni, another the Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings, freedom fighters of Mexico, with whom Parker – Dan DeLuca “All The Good Times” aligns his own creative iconoclasm. William The Conqueror, All of it reveals the work of a musical thinker “Maverick Thinker” with boundless curiosity, whose instincts embrace diverse influences and audiences in Wolf King, “Path Of Wrath” hopes of a better tomorrow. Neil Young, “Archives II” 1972- 1976 10-CD Box – Shaun Brady