Fifty Shades of Black
I can't believe I'm still reviewing movies like this. Seriously, what ever happened to good spoofs? Oh, yeah, I remember... it starts with a 'W'... This review is also up at Channel 24 What it's about A direct, scene-by-scene “spoof” of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. What we thought I'm not sure if the self-parody nature of Fifty Shades of Grey makes it easier or harder to take the piss out of the ultra-popular BDSM(ish) literary sensation but it's surely riper material for “spoofing” than Fifty Shades of Black would suggest. Marlon Wayans' latest crime against cinema and good taste starts off with this utterly perplexing sequence where Wayan's Christian Black (“Black”, not “Grey” because he's a black man – geddit? Geddit? Yeah, me neither) goes off on a petty theft spree. The sequence is so utterly laugh-free that it took me a full minute to realise this was supposed to be a joke about... about... well, that's exa...