RZA banks on Azealia

29 May 2015 - 02:22 By Tymon Smith

Azealia Banks is set to star as an aspiring rapper in a feature directed by Wu-Tang Clan' s RZA. The film is called Coco and will see Banks playing the role of an aspiring Brooklyn rapper who is torn between her dreams of hip-hop success and her parents' wishes that she go to college.Fresh off the publication of his debut novel, Holy Cow, and his return to the world of The X-Files, David Duchovny is also getting decent reviews for his role in a new NBC cop drama, Aquarius. The show debuts this week and is set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the rise of Charles Manson.The title says it all. The Not Gay as in Happy - Queer as in F**k You film festival runs at The Bioscope in Johannesburg from May 28 to June 3. Visit www.thebioscope.co.za Also openingTHE REWRITEIn the 1990s, Hugh Grant made a name for himself playing charming snots, but in this film the emphasis is more on ''snot" than on ''charming." Bilge Ebiri, vulture.comSERENASerena's descent into madness sparks a storm of overacting that makes the Macbeths look like introverts and reduces this misbegotten lumber-world tragedy to splinters. Peter Travers, Rollingstone.comBARELY LETHALThe conflict of a trained assassin trying to assimilate in high school is intriguing, but Barely Lethal refuses to look at the emotional trauma such an upbringing would have caused. Josh Oakley, cutprintfilm.comTHE AGE OF ADALINEA Cellophane-wrapped romantic fantasy about a lovely young woman whose age was long ago frozen at 29.A lead performance of mind-bending dullness is given by Blake Lively, whose surname suddenly looks horribly ironic. Peter Travers, The Guardian..

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