While the makers of the forthcoming live-action Captain Planet movie piece together the remnants of your childhood, the folks at Funny or Die are owning the Planeteer game with yet another video featuring Don Cheadle as the terrifying enviro-hero gone mad with green power. Since we last saw him shooting magical nature lasers out of his junk, Captain Planet has turned all of the Planeteers into trees save for poor Ma-Ti (Efren Ramirez), who now lives a life of indentured servitude to the Captain as the blue-skinned superbeing continues his quest to replace the humans of Earth with plants and bunny rabbits. Captain Planet 2 from Don Cheadle At this rate when the actual official Captain Planet movie comes along I’ll never be able to take it seriously. How many internet views do we need to make Cartoon Network and the guys who made Transformers cast Cheadle and go full Planet Terror ? [ Funny or Die ] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
This is a good look for sure for lil Nicky Cannon-Carey: “Nick Cannon was released over the weekend to be with his family. He is resting and recovering at home and would like to thank everyone who has expressed concern, well wishes and prayers,” his rep tells PEOPLE. “He plans to return to his live morning radio show broadcast Rollin’ with Nick Cannon on 92.3 NOW FM on January 17th.” We’re glad to hear he’s doing well and out of the hospital. That had to be a tough scare! Source More On Bossip! Twitter Files: The World Welcomes Princess Blue Ivy Carter And Speculates About What Her Name Means Everybody Hates Kim: A List Of People That Had Beef With Kimmy And Her Cakes For The Single And Seeking: The Best U.S. Cities To Find A Date In 2012 (Do You Already Live There??) Get Your Life Together: The Craziest, Wildest And Dumbest Fan Tattoos Of All Time
Don’s got a new series, “House of Lies,” and he fully intends to strip down everyone he works with on camera. Plus, check out how he reacts to a practical joke that made him think his Miles Davis passion project had been derailed.
Kudos to the folks over at JET for one of the best cover stories we’ve read in a minute! Don Cheadle is the mag’s front man this time around and he shows his funny side in the feature, probably a good idea since he’s preparing to premiere his new Showtime series “House Of Lies” very soon. He executive produces and stars in the show about a greedy management consultant who has a cross-dressing son and a father who lives with him. Check out a few of our favorite excerpts from the story below: On His Resemblance To Conrade Murray: “(Conrad Murray) is actually my passion project. You hit it! I want to play Conrad Murray, but I want to do him in drag and somewhat mentally disabled because that’s what will get me my Oscar. Oh wait, for Black people you have to be like a prostitute or a gangster. I’ll do him as a prostitute and I’ll definitely get that Oscar!” On His 20 Year Relationship with Bridgid Coulter (the couple has 2 daughters, Ayana, 17 and Imani, 15): “We were married in a pagan ritual,” jokes Cheadle. “No it just wasn’t planned. Our first daughter wasn’t planned and it just happened. So we were like, we’re together. Are we supposed to get married now? After 20 years, I guess we could. It’s just never been a priority.” On Not Being Hollywood: “It’s not me,” says Cheadle. “If I suddenly became ‘that guy,’ it would seem ridiculous. I’ll kill a hooker or something, or get into a bar fight with Jamie Foxx. I dunno!” On Obama: “I think he inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more ‘gangsta’ president. Good stuff right?!? Pick up the issue! More On Bossip! Silver Spoon Swag: Stars That Were Born Rich Already! Sneaky Geniuses: Stars That Are Wayyyyy Smarter Than They Look Gone Home To Glory: The Notable Names That Passed Away In 2011 Part 1 X-Rated Bangers: The Hottest Black Adult Movie Stars In The Biz…Would You Wife Any Of Them?
Ever since Netflix upped its mail-delivery DVD prices to the two-digit level , how are you surviving? Or are you? Sorry, that was presumptuous of me. You’ve chosen to die young, and I understand. And so does Funny Or Die, which has put together a video about Netflixpricepocalypse. Jason Alexander stars, and he is concerned about whether your viewings of The Wire are in jeopardy.
For those weary of parsing which part of the post- Dirty Harry , post-Tarantino cops and robbers homage is demonstrating its fondness for the genre and which is just declaring it, writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is more exhausting than entertaining. Ideally one would have better things to do while in the act of watching a movie — like say watching the movie — but from its assaultive, nihilistic prologue to its last flat invocation of American culture, The Guard foregrounds the extent to which it is leaning on artifice and affect to get over.
Black dads get a bad rap, off and onscreen. Sometimes it’s deservedly so, other times they don’t get the credit they deserve. With Father’s Day taking place Sunday we wanted to celebrate some of our favorite dads from the big screen. None of them were perfect, but most of the ones we picked were chosen because they did what dads are sposed to do — they were there for their kids, they were protective of their kids and they wanted the best for their kids. Have a look at the list, and be sure to let us know who we missed!
