Brooklyn's own Jamal “Gravy” Woolard plays Biggie Smalls in Notorious, a biopic about the late rapper's life that opens today. Chris Richards at the Washington Post pans it, calling the script "lousy" and warning that "those trailers on YouTube may look promising, but don't believe the hype. Notorious... feels like Biggie's Wikipedia page reformatted for the big screen. No era of the iconic Brooklyn rapper's 24 years goes untouched, making a frustrating dash from the playground to the grave, all in less than two hours."
A rather lackluster batch of new movies are being dumped this week, which is okay because so many must-sees opened around the holidays that there's plenty of catching up to do. (Gran Torino, The Wrestler and Waltz With Bashir, for starters.) Anyway, click the images for more on this week's stinkers.






people criticize Gothamist for the shoplifter story yet the movie Notorious about a drug dealer, gang banger, high school dropout will most likely sell out this weekend. sick society
I have Hello Kitty band-aids just like Paul Blart.
I just got a hello kitty toaster Jen, it's great, i make toast just to see her little face... which is way more entertaining then say, wasting money on these lousy movies.
Def. agree with the catching up on the "good" movies out there.
FOX is the distributor of Notorious. Even the trailer stinks, and the trailer usually highlight the best parts of athe movie. blah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDDv6pAbN_U
I wonder if the actor playing Puff Daddy will also jump around like some fame-whoring cricket in "Biggie's" videos.
I remember the "Sugarhill gang"
Were they not ht hip hop group?
Oh for the early 1980's I was old
even back then.
This film (good or bad) will make money
especially in Europe & Asia where when
they see American's on film thye get
terrified of us a little as a keeper
of Atomic weapons.
The Japanese like to see African-Americans
so that they don't ever have them in their
backyard,if you know what I mean.
i saw MB3D, it was really fun in 3D but the movie sucked. nothing like t he original! also people walked out.