In this episode of BBB, Ricardo and I (through the mystical powers of Skype) review the 'jazzy' Miles Davis biopic "Miles Ahead", Jean-Claude Van Damme's sequel/reboot of sorts - "Kickboxer: Vengeance", Nicholas Winding Refn's latest movie that already has critics and viewers divided - "The Neon Demon", and the newest entry in the Marvel / Netflix universe - "Luke Cage". MILES AHEAD - 06:21 KICKBOXER: VENGEANCE - 19:51 THE NEON DEMON - 50:32 LUKE CAGE (Season 1) - 1:25:02 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIA...
Mar 06, 2018•2 hr 11 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we briefly touch on the recent anniversaries of two classic hip-hop albums (A Tribe Called Quest's "The Low End Theory" and The Roots' "Illadelph Halflife")and the tragic passing of actor Bill Nunn, in addition to reviewing the Oliver Stone political thriller "Snowden" and Season 2 of the Emmy-winning cyber-thriller series "Mr. Robot". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/Legal...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 11 min
In this special episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we celebrate the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of A Legally Black Blog by discussing "Bazodee" (starring Trinidad & Tobago's own soca ambassador Machel Montano), along with a retrospect review of my favourite movie of all time - Stanley Kubrick's dystopic masterpiece "A Clockwork Orange" and one of Ricardo's all-time favourite movies, Alejandro Jodorowsky's mind-bending fantasy "The Holy Mountain". My ¿Waz D Scene? video review of "Bazodee" - www.you...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 40 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we discuss Daniel Radcliffe's latest post-'Harry Potter' film "Imperium", the HBO miniseries "The Night Of", the home invasion thriller "Don't Breathe", the stop-motion animated movie "Kubo and the Two Strings", and a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT at the very end! MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 49 min
As 2016's summer blockbuster season draws to a close, we review the first half of the Neftlix hip hop drama series "The Get-Down", the "much-needed" remake of the epic "Ben-Hur" and a crime drama which may very well be the BEST movie of the summer: "Hell or High Water". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 41 min
In another EPIC episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, Ricardo Medina, special guest Claude Lilford and myself review the recently-released trailers for "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", Season 1 of AMC's "Preacher", the R-rated animated comedy "Sausage Party" and another divisive entry in the DC Extended Universe: "Suicide Squad". Movie trailer reviews - 03:34 "Preacher" review - 17:23 "Sausage Party" review - 34:34 "Suicide Squad" review - 1:14:09 Outro - 3:...
Mar 06, 2018•3 hr 28 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about Season 1 of HBO's gripping series "The Night Of" so far, and the short film-turned-feature horror flick "Lights Out", as well as review (with some spoilers) the newest chapter in the Bourne series "Jason Bourne" and the SyFy Channel's fourth entry in their amazingly popular "Sharknado" movie series: "The 4th Awakens". Link to 2013 blog review of "Sharknado" and "The Conjuring": https://legallyblack.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/double-fea...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 51 min
In today's episode, we talk about the San Diego Comic Con trailers that stood out the most to us this year, as well as share our thoughts on the film adaptation of the classic graphic novel "Batman: The Killing Joke", the third season of Netflix's "Bojack Horseman", the 'highly-anticipated' reboot "Ghostbusters" and another sequel in the rebooted "Star Trek" movie franchise, "Star Trek Beyond". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitte...
Mar 06, 2018•2 hr 7 min
Through the mystical powers of Skype, we talk about the bad week Rich Homie Quan and Memphis Bleek had, as well as review the Season 2 premiere of "Mr. Robot", the Bollywood romantic sports drama "Sultan", Season 1 of the new Netflix original series "Stranger Things", and the third chapter in the "Purge" saga: "Election Year". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr 39 min
In this special episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we celebrate our first anniversary by reviewing the first episode of the new "Berserk" anime series, the survival horror movie "The Shallows", the final season of the gothic horror TV series "Penny Dreadful", and the Ultimate Edition of 2016's most divisive superhero movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 40 min
As the 1st anniversary of BBB (YAY!) draws near, we review Kanye West's controversial music video "Famous" and the fourth season of Netflix's "Orange is the New Black", along with "Septembers of Shiraz", "Central Intelligence", and the sequel EVERYONE'S been waiting on for the past 20 years: "Independence Day: Resurgence". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 58 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about the best of E3 2016, as well as review the epic documentary "O.J.: Made in America", Jay-Z's 20-year old debut album "Reasonable Doubt", the first teaser trailer for the long-awaited 2Pac biopic "All Eyez On Me", the horror sequel "The Conjuring 2" and the animated sequel "Finding Dory" Text review of "Reasonable Doubt" - https://legallyblack.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/hey-look-a-music-review-jay-z-reasonable-doubt-1996/ MATTHEW BAILEY...
Mar 01, 2018•2 hr 3 min
Along with a few crappy comedies, "The Angry Birds Movie", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" and "Warcraft" managed to pique our interest. We share our thoughts on these movies in this episode of Beers, Beats and Bailey. MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Through the magical powers of Skype, we talk about a couple of new video games and some new movie and TV show trailers, as well as review "Keanu", "Money Monster", "The Nice Guys" and "X-Men: Apocalypse". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 59 min
BBB jumps head-first into the Summer Movie madness of 2016 with our reviews of "Barbershop: The Next Cut" and "Captain America: Civil War"......with a quick review of the video game "Overwatch" thrown in for good measure because, hey, we still love ourselves a good first-person shooter :) MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 21 min
In this episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about the TV series "American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson", the direct-to-video animated feature "Justice League vs. Teen Titans", the first trailer for Marvel's "Doctor Strange", the chilling supernatural drama "The Witch" and Disney's live-action adaptation of their beloved animated film "The Jungle Book". MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 58 min
In this episode of BBB, we review the Disney animated film "Zootopia" and the second season of Marvel/ Netflix's hit TV series "Daredevil", in addition to sharing our part-spoiler-free/part-spoiler-heavy thoughts on the critically divisive "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" Zootopia review - 01:41 Daredevil (Season 2) review - 11:01 Batman v Superman (spoiler-free thoughts) - 31:36 Batman v Superman (SPOILER-HEAVY thoughts) - 56:43...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 52 min
In this episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about the trailers for "Nina", "Ghostbusters" and "Captain America: Civil War", and the thriller films "Eye in the Sky" and "10 Cloverfield Lane". New Trailers (Reviews) - 02:49 Eye in the Sky (Review) - 41:31 10 Cloverfield Lane(Review) - 53:05 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 32 min
In this episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about the film which earned Brie Larson her first Academy Award ("Room"), and the long-awaited sequel to one of the greatest martial arts movies of all time: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Sword of Destiny" MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Feb 24, 2018•57 min
In this latest episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, I review, track by track, Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" album, Ricardo Medina reviews the Red Letter Media sci-fi comedy "Space Cop", and the latest film from critically-acclaimed writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen - "Hail, Caesar". and we both review the final "Batman v Superman" trailer, the final (?) film in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and the first film in the Deadpool franchise (hopefully). Backing tracks: ''Sahasrara" - bluntone:...
Feb 24, 2018•2 hr 9 min
In this episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we talk about SyFy's new original series "The Expanse", the latest DC Universe Animated Original Movie "Batman: Bad Blood" and Michael Bay's third "based on true events" film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" The Expanse (Review) - 03:09 Batman: Bad Blood (Review) - 22:28 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Review) - 41:09 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallybl...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Season 2 of Beers, Beats & Bailey continues with a review of David Bowie's (R.I.P.) debut film "The Man who Fell to Earth", a look back at our favourite films from Alan Rickman (R.I.P.), our thoughts on the 2016 Oscar nominations, and our reviews of the Best Picture Oscar nominated films "The Big Short" and "The Revenant" The Man who Fell to Earth (Review) - 01:35 Favourite Films of Alan Rickman - 20:48 Thoughts on 2016 Oscar nominations - 37:37 The Big Short (Review) -...
Feb 24, 2018•2 hr 20 min
We kick off Season 2 and 2016 with our look back at 2015 and what we're looking forward to this year, followed by our thoughts on the 8th film from director Quentin Tarantino - "The Hateful Eight" Overture to 2016 - 01:30 The Hateful Eight review - 20:21 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Closing off Season 1 of Beers, Beats and Bailey are special guest and fellow podcaster Donald Haffenden's Top 10 Tech picks of 2015, Ricardo Medina's picks for Best Movies of 2015 and Matthew Bailey's picks for Best Movies, Worst Movies, Best Hip-Hop Albums and Best Hip-Hop EPs of 2015. Check out more of InDev News at http://www.indev.news/ , and also check out Donald's photography website - http://www.upbound.net/ MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOC...
Feb 24, 2018•2 hr 52 min
In this EPIC penultimate episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey Season 1, Ricardo Medina, Claude Lilford and myself discuss the previous 6 Star Wars movies (and the stuff in-between), as well as share our SPOILER-FREE and SPOILER-HEAVY (you've been warned) thoughts on the latest entry in the Star Wars series: "The Force Awakens". "Star Wars (Original Trilogy)" review - 03:32 "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure" & "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor" made-for-TV movie reviews - 54:16 "Star Wars (Pr...
Feb 24, 2018•3 hr 42 min
Ricardo and I talk about the latest trailer for "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", along with Spike Lee's return to cinematic form with "Chi-Raq" and an Oscar-worthy entry into the "Rocky" franchise - "Creed". If you'd like to skip the "Batman v Superman" trailer review, go to 31:22 If you'd like to skip the "Chi-Raq" review, go to 48:24 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 13 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, we discuss the Amazon series "Man in the High Castle", the Netflix original series "Jessica Jones" and "Maser of None", and the long-awaited conclusion to the "Hunger Games" saga: "Mockingjay - Part 2" If you'd like to skip the TV series reviews, go to 42:53 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack https://twitter.com/LegallyblackMJB...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 17 min
In today's episode of Beers, Beats & Bailey, with special guest Claude Lilford, we discuss Guillermo Del Toro's gothic horror film "Crimson Peak", the latest James Bond adventure "Spectre" and the charming animated film "The Peanuts Movie"......among other things. If you'd like to skip the "Crimson Peak" review, go to 1:06:43 If you'd like to skip the "Spectre" review, go to 1:52:05 For your reading pleasure: The Visual Intelligence of Pacific Rim: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2013/0...
Feb 24, 2018•2 hr 26 min
In Episode 6 of BBB, Ricardo Medina and I talk about the trashy Eli Roth-directed erotic thriller "Knock Knock", the uncompromising Netflix feature film "Beasts of No Nation" and Steven Spielberg's certified Oscar contender "Bridge of Spies". If you'd like to skip the "Knock Knock" review, go to 19:56 If you'd like to skip the "Beasts of No Nation" review, go to 30:35 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr
Through the power of Skype, Ricardo Medina and I discuss new and returning TV shows, as well as our thoughts on the films "Sicario", "The Walk" and "The Martian". "Sicario" review - 22:25 "The Walk" review - 31:27 "The Martian" review - 40:20 MATTHEW BAILEY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: legallyblack.wordpress.com www.patreon.com/legallyblack...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 12 min