Critical popcorn

**New Trailer Alert!!**

Back in the old days, you could watch a film pretty much with any rating at whatever age you were, but if you’re shouting ‘I do that now!‘ you might be forgetting that streaming didn’t exist, Blu-ray didn’t exist – hell, the internet didn’t either – but via a dodgy VHS or even just going with an adult (in my case a parent) to the cinema, you’d probably get into all kinds of genres and gather some memories that were never expecting to be.

While I didn’t see Beverly Hills Cop (1985) in the cinema, I definitely saw it when I was about 11 years now and ‘get the fuck outta here!’ was an immediate favourite phrase, let alone the ice cool Eddie Murphy laying down the perfect performance with a mix of sharp wit, and intelligent and entertaining detecting.

It’s fair to say that mid-late career, Murphy wasn’t picking up the finest roles or the funniest movies, but he kept a certain donkey in the mind forever in pop culture, and a top class double performance in Bowfinger is often – and unfairly – overlooked, plus his portrayal in Dolemite Is My Name, the story of the real-life legend, Rudy Ray Moore.

If you’re of a certain era, you’ll always associate Eddie with Axel Foley and I really enjoyed this trailer for the new film Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F from Director Mark Molloy, writers Will Beall, Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten – all based on those original characters created by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.

Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F is definitely playing on the nostalgia, like so many do these days, but it’s got a hint of that lightening in a bottle from the original movies, and throwing in a mix of 80s and modern action to bring it all to 2024 – and I’m definitely looking forward!

Also starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot and Kevin Bacon, here’s your trailer:

Detective Axel Foley (Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Reinhold) and John Taggart (Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.

Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F comes to Netflix 3 July, and I wonder if a limited cinema release because it’s got those big screen vibes