There’s an alternate timeline where You People, the feature directorial debut of Kenya Barris (black-ish), is the next great romantic comedy. There’s another version where it’s a biting satire that delves into the strain parents can inflict on their grown children. There’s an even more distant option, where it’s a sharp critique on race relations that both entertains and tackles the hard truths around cancel culture, privilege and faith. While the film clearly wants to be all of those options, it ends up buckling under...
- 1/27/2023
- by CT Jones
- Rollingstone.com
Former Saturday Night Live castmates Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, two of the funniest people alive, are reunited and then immediately wasted in You People. A culture-clash romcom wholeheartedly convinced it’s a satire, it marks the feature directorial debut of Kenya Barris – creator of the sitcom Black-ish and its spin-offs, Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. Was this, at some point or another, the concept for a series, too? It certainly feels that way. You People carries the unresolved, disjointed tension of a sitcom that’s been stretched to the two-hour mark.
Louis-Dreyfus and Murphy play Shelley Cohen and Akbar Mohammed, respective parents to Ezra (Jonah Hill) and Amira (Lauren London), a couple whose first interaction involves a mistaken accusation of racial discrimination. The Cohens are liberal and Jewish, and Shelley swears she hated Gone with the Wind “before it was cool”. Akbar experienced a mid-life renewal of his Muslim faith and...
Louis-Dreyfus and Murphy play Shelley Cohen and Akbar Mohammed, respective parents to Ezra (Jonah Hill) and Amira (Lauren London), a couple whose first interaction involves a mistaken accusation of racial discrimination. The Cohens are liberal and Jewish, and Shelley swears she hated Gone with the Wind “before it was cool”. Akbar experienced a mid-life renewal of his Muslim faith and...
- 1/26/2023
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
In a nutshell the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent, and wickedly smart new movie, You People is in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. Of course back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some southern theatres. The idea was switched in a Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher 2005 remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. With anti-semitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America however the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and White, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill’s and director Kenya Barris’ whipsmart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of- your-seat laugh riot. Ironically I saw it this week at its World Premiere at the same...
- 1/20/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Shelly Cohen, who served for nearly three decades as the assistant musical director during Johnny Carson's entire run on The Tonight Show — and even got to lead the band on the air once in a while — has died. He was 84.
Cohen died July 25 of pneumonia at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. Leona, his wife of 64 years, told The Hollywood Reporter that he had been ill for just a few days.
After joining NBC in the 1950s, Cohen worked on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from Oct. 1, 1962 —...
Cohen died July 25 of pneumonia at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. Leona, his wife of 64 years, told The Hollywood Reporter that he had been ill for just a few days.
After joining NBC in the 1950s, Cohen worked on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from Oct. 1, 1962 —...
Giving up the con is easier said than done for Imposters‘ Maddie.
After she stole more than one person’s fortune and heart last year by pretending to be their dream girl, Season 2 (premiering Thursday at 10/9c on Bravo) “finds Maddie growing tired of living other people’s lives,” star Inbar Lavi previews. “She’s determined to reclaim her own, but rather quickly, she finds that leaving the life of a con might be even more difficult than living it.”
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After she stole more than one person’s fortune and heart last year by pretending to be their dream girl, Season 2 (premiering Thursday at 10/9c on Bravo) “finds Maddie growing tired of living other people’s lives,” star Inbar Lavi previews. “She’s determined to reclaim her own, but rather quickly, she finds that leaving the life of a con might be even more difficult than living it.”
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- 4/4/2018
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Giving up the con is easier said than done for Imposters‘ Maddie.
After she stole more than one person’s fortune and heart last year by pretending to be their dream girl, Season 2 (premiering Thursday at 10/9c on Bravo) “finds Maddie growing tired of living other people’s lives,” star Inbar Lavi previews. “She’s determined to reclaim her own, but rather quickly, she finds that leaving the life of a con might be even more difficult than living it.”
Even with “threats everywhere” — including her duped exes the Bumblers, the mysterious con mastermind The Doctor, the FBI and Uma Thurman...
After she stole more than one person’s fortune and heart last year by pretending to be their dream girl, Season 2 (premiering Thursday at 10/9c on Bravo) “finds Maddie growing tired of living other people’s lives,” star Inbar Lavi previews. “She’s determined to reclaim her own, but rather quickly, she finds that leaving the life of a con might be even more difficult than living it.”
Even with “threats everywhere” — including her duped exes the Bumblers, the mysterious con mastermind The Doctor, the FBI and Uma Thurman...
- 4/4/2018
- TVLine.com
Maddie and the rest of the Bumblers may have pulled off an escape in the season one finale of Imposters, but it turns out that they're not impossible to find. Not when there's a dangerous fixer with the last name Cohen on the hunt. Though Maddie's (Inbar Lavi) intent on reclaiming her life when the Bravo scripted series returns for season two, living life as a blonde Molly Jackson, as this exclusive sneak peek reveals, her new identity and all her skills as a con artist aren't enough to keep her from opening the door of her new apartment to one hell of a surprise. Its name? Shelly Cohen, the mysterious ex-husband of Uma Thurman's equally dangerous Lenny Cohen, played by executive producer Paul...
- 3/26/2018
- E! Online
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