Thighbeca Film FestivalDay 1

Journey to the End of the Night
Doesn’t Go Gentle, But Still A Good Night
Trailer – Not Available
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US Release Date – 10/1/06

Clarice Starling’s mentor & Encino Man are a father-son set of pimps down in Sao Paulo Brazil. They’re both involved in a drug deal that will set em straight til their twilight days. They’re also both involved with Catalina Sandino Moreno, el super hottieo from Maria Full of Grace. To complicate things even further, Jack Crawford is her hubbie, and Dudley Do-Right is her lover. If that wasn’t enuff, in order for the drug deal to go thru they need someone who speaks a certain African language, and when their guy croaks after boning a shemale whore, they’re forced to turn the duties over to a dishwasher who works in their club, the always franztastic Mos Def, who this time disappears behind a Nigerian accent. Of course no plans ever go as expected, and along the way, shots are fired, people get killed, a blind soothsayer says sooth, and Sonia Braga’s niece Alice gives CS Moreno a run for her South American bonita-ness-ness (you may remember her as the girl of everyone’s affection in City of God).

So is it any good? Short response? Yes. Long response? It’s kinda amateurish. The dialog is cheesy, hispecially between father and son. The music is overly dramatic for a story that wishes it was more dramatic. It employs that Robert Altman overlapping character crap that I’ve had enuff of (hell, I’ve had enuff of Altman). And Brenden Fraser in a drama that isn’t School Ties is always amiss. But despite its glaring minsusuzuz, it’s vibriant, bewitching, and a Mos Defilicious piece of filmmaking.

Recommended for those who like: phone destruction, Mr Eko, and flying monkeys, but not from butts

Possible Porno Name: Horny Til I End My Night In Your Tight A$$

Unsatisfied with this? Netflix one of my mos flavorite movies of this decade, The Good Thief [trailer]

Apt MPupil3: ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp’ by DJay [d]

IMDb Sweeney: Catalina Sandino Moreno will appear in Ethan Hawke’s next directorial joint, The Hottest State, which foddly enuff also stars Sonia Braga. And even foddlier, I was a PA on Ethan’s first full length feature, Chelsea Walls. Hopefully E-dawg will give me her number, so I can do a number on her!

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Dude, anything with Catalina Sandino is MOS DEF Jeepers Worth A Peepers… thus far