There’s a woman who murmurs self-help mantras to herself after killing a guy (“I am happy. It’s a “crazy bitch” plot with Extra Pulp: surrogate mama drama, cat-murder, Michael K. But When the Bough Breaks is bad for not daring to be worse it’s bad for trying to wipe its hands clean of the dirt that might have made it halfway exciting to watch. Plenty of greatly enjoyable movies are ultimately bad as a Gravity defender, I make peace with this truth daily. When the bough broke, the cradle rocked, and all we have to show for it is this? Nevermind that it’s bad. So, good for her for landing a starring role - a breakthrough dramatic turn, no less - in this weekend’s no. Or you might know her from any of the other 40-and-change roles she’s had in profitable, if frequently terrible, movies over the years. Maybe you also know her from the black romantic comedy About Last Night, where she and Kevin Hart rock-paper-scissor’d over who’d get to be on bottom (read: who’d get to just, you know, lie there) during sex.
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You’re most likely to know her as Brenda, from the Scary Movie franchise: Brenda whose down-low boyfriend (Shawn Wayans) got ear-fucked at a movie theater glory hole Brenda who yapped so loudly in a theater screening Shakespeare in Love that the angry white suburbanites stabbed her to death. Not long ago, The Washington Post called her “the best actress you don’t know,” comparing her wild comedic antics to those of the great Lucille Ball.
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Ring a bell? You’d recognize her if you saw her.