MOVIE REVIEW: WAIST DEEP

Meagan "so" Goode "it hurts"
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Vondie Curtis-Hall unleashed his urban update of a Bonnie & Clyde story (that outlaw pair gets much props in the hip-hopized urban community) WAIST DEEP a couple of weeks ago. I saw it opening weekend, and am only now getting around to writig about it, 'cause I was talking about this high school film noir called BRICK last night.

Curiously my new favorite actress Meagan Goode is the female lead in WAIST DEEP is also in BRICK.

Besides having a killa body, and some of the most beautiful lips taht have ever been on screen -- she has the ACTING goods! That role in BRICK as a white-bred Black girl in Orange County is 1000 miles away from the 'Round the Way girl from South Central who had never seen the Sunset Strip before.

Only thing is Hollywood doesn't tend to give roles to smoking hot young Black actresses (they usually have one ethnic girl getting the roles, and currently that's Jessica Alba).

The thing about Meagan is that as striking as she is, she doesn't distract from the movie -- in fact, she draws you in even more. Now that's the kind of charisma that 90% of the successful female actresses don't have. Take some like Catherine Zeta-Jones, pretty, real fucking pretty, but her beauty gets in the way and I have YET to see her do a strong performance (except for Ocean's 12 which didn't live up though).

I don't know what she's up to next, but I can't wait. I wonder if Hollywood will annoint her the Next It Black Girl, as Halle has kind of fallen off with her choices...