Friday (1995)
Directed by F. Gary Gray
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
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His portrayal of Calvin Candie’s aging house slave, Stephen, is equal parts southern preacher (repeating the last word of DiCaprio’s sentences and adding “MMM-HMM, THAT’S RIGHT!”, which was apparently Jackson’s idea) and John Witherspoon in Friday , which he pulls off, all while exuding legitimate menace.
Rap artist Ice Cube, who offered impressive acting turns in "Boyz N the Hood," `Trespass" and "Higher Learning" has decided to take his movie career into his own hands, co-writing and co-executive producing "Friday."
In some ways, Ice Cube's Craig is the flip side of Doughboy, the character he played in John Singleton's searing "Boyz N the Hood."
Gray, who directed Cube back in 1995’s Friday (which earns more than a few in-joke references here), makes large stretches of the behind-the-music narrative pop before, almost inevitably, the script sputters out.
For better or worse, director F. Gary Gray (the man behind Ice Cube’s Friday) and his team of writers chose to address all of this in one film.
Instead, F Gary Gray (whose CV includes Friday and Set It Off ) plays it rather more straight, following Corey Hawkins’s Dr Dre, Jason Mitchell’s Eazy-E, and O’Shea Jackson Jr’s Ice Cube on a pulsating rags-to-riches journey involving all the usual rock-pic elements: talismanic recording sessions, boisterous concerts, riotous parties (replete with unquestioned misogyny), corrupt managers etc.
The director is F. Gary Gray, who made videos for Dr. Dre, including “Keep Their Heads Ringin’,” and directed Ice Cube 20 years ago in Friday, which Straight Outta Compton takes unnatural pains to identify him writing.
The engaging biopic directed by F. Gary Gray (“Friday”) is document to the history and time of a new kind of music and the young men who performed it and became one of the most influential groups of all time.
It all clocks in at just under two and a half hours which is best that director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) could do.
Here is a man sometimes so hilarious and influencing to this movie that it seems hard to believe that he at one time appeared in rubbish like "Friday."
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Director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) keeps splashing the screen with gore so the out-for-blood crowd will lap it up.
Unfortunately, Butler and director F. Gary Gray ("Friday") have so much fun cutting off tongues and eyelids they quickly forget who the villain is.
Gray, who made his name with the hip hop neighbourhood comedy Friday (1995), is at this point a long way from home.
Well, the rest of this month's upcoming films have yet to be seen by me, but 2000 has begun with Steve Carr's "Next Friday," the sequel to the despicably low-rent 1995 comedy hit, "Friday."
For a while, Next Friday, the sequel to the 1995 sleeper hit ''Friday,'' dawdles with amiable shagginess as it follows Craig (played, once again, by Ice Cube, who also produced), the chunky, impassive hero, out to the L.A. suburbs, where he goes to live with his Uncle Elroy (Don ''DC'' Curry) and cousin Day-Day (Mike Epps), who have used their lottery winnings to escape South Central.
…t's the rare cash-in sequel that's worth the price of full admission, so it's no surprise that Next Friday (part of the minifranchise that includes 1996's Friday and an upcoming, NYC-set version tentatively titled Stoops) isn't quite the picture its predecessor was.
Next Friday takes place four years after that first "fried day," by which time Craig's nemesis Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.) has busted out of jail.
February 14, 2000 -- "Next Friday" is the very successful followup to "Friday," a surprise hit in 1995.