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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS FILM FILM REVIEW: Bad Boys for Life

By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic

They first teamed up for Bad Boys in 1995, to great box office success. There was an encore in 2003, Bad Boys II, which was dis tinguished by incredible stunts. Now, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence go back to the same well one more time. Is there any wa ter left?

A sporty looking, deep blue 992-Generation Porsche speeds through the streets of sunny Mi ami. If a reckless twentysomething was behind the wheel, you’d call the car a chick magnet. Instead it’s 51-year-old Detective Mike Lowrey (Smith) steering the vehicle with his lead foot on the acceler ator. In his hands the sports car is more a middle-ager’s last grasp at youth. Low rey’s 54-year-old partner Detective Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) sits petrified in the passenger seat, holding on for dear life and nause ated by the hyper-dangerous ride.

According to the blue print drawn by screenwriters Chris Bremner, Peter Craig (The Town) and Joe Carnahan (Narc, TV’s The Blacklist), this is how the film will play out: A plot involving revenge from a former Mexican assail ant Isabel Aretas (Kate del Castillo, All About Nina) and her minion (Ja cob Scipio, Hunter Killer) evolves. Assassinations of lawyers and judges rain down on Miami like a summer storm.

A new police unit named AMMO takes charge of the investigation, headed by a tough captain named Rita (Paola Nuñez, TV’s The Purge) and her

elite group: tech wizard Dorn (Alexander Lud wig, The Hunger Games), weapons expert Kelly (Vanessa Hudgens, Spring Breakers) and the very sarcastic Rafe (Charles Melton, TV’s Riverdale). Can they do the job? Will Mike and Marcus hurt or help them?

Subtly and brazenly, in humor and family dra ma, the script rips into the ages of the two protago nists like someone pouring salt on an open wound. The “boys” have lost a few steps and added gray hairs industrial strength Grecian Formula can’t fix. The contrasts between the veterans and the new jus tice league gets played for laughs persistently, espe cially between Smith and Melton.

Crime/action/thriller fans will be in their glory with this orgy of violence, blue language, sexy flirta tions and good versus evil battles. It’s fun. There’s a strong verve that is com pletely contagious and will likely help this sequel achieve record-breaking box-office success. Bad Boys for Life is all it needs to be. And then some! Get ready for it. “What you gonna do when it comes for you?”

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Harlem Residents Welcome Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology “Now Getting Your Mammogram or MRI is Convenient if You Live or Work in Harlem”

by Clarke Illmatical H arlemites, don’t have to travel to the Upper West or East Side for mammograms and MRIs any longer. Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology offers state of the art imaging center in Harlem, conveniently located on the corner of 125th and St. Nicholas. This is exactly what is needed, to help women with their fight against breast cancer.

(l-r) Harlem Business Women welcome Zwanger to Harlem. (l-r) Princess Jenkins, Brownstone; Lil Nickelson, Consultant; Pat Stevenson, Harlem News, Chante Jordan, Pr Director, Zwanger

Harlem Community Newspapers | January 30. 2020 12 .Frequent mammography screenings can help the fight and Zwanger wants women in Harlem to know they have a state of the art facility in their neighborhood.

Some long time Harlem residents visted Zwanger recently to tour the facility.

According to the CDC, Black women are more likely to get Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. This type of cancer (left) Chevell Thomas, Bank Teller at Industrial Bank inquires about Zwanger services.

is extremely aggressive, harder to detect. For that reason, it is extremely important to get screenings frequently and as early as possible.

What sets Zwanger, Harlem location apart from any other radiology facility is that all of the equipment is brand

new. State of the art imaging technology is also very safe, so there is little threat when it comes to screenings or the number of screenings that a patient can have.

Zwanger is new to Harlem as of 2019, howeve they have 33 locations and been providing radiology services in New York for more than 60 years.

Zwanger’s mammography equipment provides detailed imaging and provides them with details on each breast screened. They also have 3D imagiing for breast cancer.

“In the past, I spoke to patients who were only allowed to have two MRIs in a year, because it is such high radiation. With all of our equipment being the latest and greatest, low radiation, to no radiation. There’s no limit on how many times you can be scanned in a