Bringing the Miami Heat

Dunno if you've heard the building buzz for beloved actress Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami --which imagines the foursome of Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) footballer Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and one Cassius Clay soon-to-be Muhammed Ali (Eli Goree), spending the night in a hotel room together in February of 1964 -- but the movie's getting great notices, even if nobody seemed to have thought what I immediately thought when I heard that plot description.

I’m halfway into One Night in Miami and... I cannot be the only homosexual who sees another version of this movie happening once these four men get in the hotel room and start talking about their “blue balls”

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 1, 2020

Anyway that aside (big aside) the film, which I saw a couple of weeks ago, is totally solid, and features star-making turns from Kingsley Ben-Adir (seen up top) and Eli Goree -- that's not to slight the other two! I just already consider Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr.'s stars good and made already -- am I wrong? But I do think those first two are best in show, especially especially Ben-Adir, who should definitely be in the run for Best Supporting Actor... although I think I read they were running him as Best Actor? I personally think all four should be considered Supporting but what do I know. Anyway, we have a new trailer!

One Night in Miami is supposedly hitting some theaters on Christmas Day, and then struts its stuff onto Amazon for a streaming release on January 15th. So more on it to come down the road. For now let's just take in three more of these shots of Kingsley Ben-Adir after the jump cuz hot damn...