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"Get Hard" (R): Kevin Hart finds himself shoehorned into a Will Ferrell buddy comedy in "Get Hard," a politically incorrect romp that only rarely romps. Ferrell is as fearless as ever, stripping down and looking foolish, willing to be out-of-touch and out of step. Hart has his manic moments. But in this buddy comedy, the buddies are not equal and that limits the laughs.

"Home" (PG): An alien on the run from his own people, lands on Earth and makes friends with the adventurous cat, Tip (Rihanna), who is on a quest of her own in this animated film. (No review)

"It Follows" (R): A few genuinely (and literally) hair-raising moments, a few knowing winks and a lot to think about lift "It Follows" above the horror pack. Sex, its consequences and a teenager actually grappling, in advance, with those consequences make this that rarest of rarities, a smart "dead teenager movie."

"Serena" (R): Bradley Cooper plays a Depression Era timber baron racing to clear cut the mountains before the Feds turn the land into the Smoky Mountains National Park. Then Serena (Jennifer Lawrence), a Westerner who grew up in timber wealth, crosses his field of view. Cooper and Lawrence get to do things on horseback, swing an axe like they've done it before and play intimate scenes that they've never had the chance to show off on screen. But,they don't create much heat.

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"A La Mala" (PG-13): "A la Mala" is a Mexican romantic comedy in the "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days/Failure to Launch/40 Days and 40 Nights" mold. Change the language to English, switch the starlet to Olivia Wilde, or this year's Olivia Wilde, and you've got a rom-com as shiny, shallow and cliched as anything Hollywood has turned out over the past dozen years.

"Black or White" (PG-13): "Selma" wasn't the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year. "Black or White" is a frank, touching and very well-acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of "blackness" and "the race card," and could have earned Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner fresh Oscar nominations.

"Cinderella" (PG): Director Kenneth Branagh delivers a lovely corpse of a fairytale, not helped by a blandly pretty lead (Lily James) and even blander Prince Charming (Richard Madden).

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Movie capsules: "Get Hard," "It Follows," "Home"

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He is brash, politically incorrect and, until today, the face of a globally acclaimed British TV program called Top Gear all about cars and the antics of its host, Jeremy Clarkson.

But branding and marketing experts agree that the BBC had no choice but to dump its biggest star despite his own strong brand recognition and the set-back it could cause the popular Top Gear program. Facing its own Ghomeshi-like moment, the BBC decided Mr. Clarkson had become too toxic and a brand liability.

Reuters Mar. 25 2015, 12:37 PM EDT

The weekly program draws 5-million domestic viewers and, through rebroadcasts around the world, an estimated global audience of 350 million. The show was one of the BBCs most successful exports generating annual revenue of $93-million.

But today the British Broadcasting Corporation cut him loose. The BBC said that Mr. Clarkson had crossed a line and that his contract would not be renewed following an investigation in to a fracas earlier this month after a day of filming. British media reported that an altercation happened when the TV star discovered that the hotel where the Top Gear team was staying had stopped serving hot food for the day.

According to the BBC investigation, Mr. Clarkson had unleashed a verbal tirade lasting 20 minutes followed by a 30-second physical assault on a producer. The assault resulted in swelling and a bloodied lip and sent the producer to the emergency department of a hospital in northern England.

The demise of Jeremy Clarkson sparked a social media backlash as fans of the show including many here in Canada criticized the BBC for its decision. Top Gear and its main host are so intertwined that fans could not imagine the show without him.

But the case also highlights the difficulties all organizations like the BBC face when trying to protect their reputation and whether to hold on to a key part of their brand or let it go.

Branding and workplace experts agreed that the BBC was left little choice.

There is more than one brand

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It's a "Trading Places" variation, with Ferrell as James, a top dollar fund manager busted by the Feds and set to go to prison. So he turns to someone for help in acquiring survival skills for "inside," to "Get Hard" enough to not be killed. How'd he pick Darnell, the small businessman from South Central who runs a car wash service?

"I was being black," Darnell (Hart) tells his wife (Edwina Findley Dickerson).

Ferrell and his team of writers play around with this familiar salt-and-pepper combo to expose the arrogant, prissy 1 percenter/Harvard Business School alum to African-American culture and his prejudices about it. Hip hop, Lil Wayne wardrobe, trash talk and slang, James studies up. Not that he learns to see past his prejudices, any more than the film does.

The joke about Darnell is that he's anything but "hard." He's a doting daddy with no police record. But he takes a big chunk of cash from James to school him, converts the man's Bel Air mansion into a version of San Quentin and fakes his way through how to eat, carry yourself, defend yourself and how to act in "The Yard." That involves Hart imitating black thugs, Chicano prison gangsters and Yard queens.

Darnell takes a few tips from his genuinely hard Crenshaw cousin (T.I.), toys with James' Afro-phobia and their shared homophobia in the training. "Get Hard" minces into places it shouldn't in the process.

But that's largely the point here -- crossing lines no one else still crosses. Gay pick-up practice, gang initiation is spoofed (clumsily), a racist white gang mocked and confronted. Generally, this movie doesn't so much invert stereotypes as embrace them. Very retro.

It's hit or miss material, with Ferrell playing it stiff and goofy and Hart straight-jacketed into a character that is rarely top drawer Kevin Hart funny. One gag that works: the Hispanic servants at James' mansion giddily get into playing fellow inmates who torment their insufferable, super rich boss. One "lights out" riot (strobed) is a hoot.

Craig T. Nelson is the too-obvious villain, but John Mayer scores as a self-aware/self-mocking version of his lady killer image.

Ferrell is as fearless as ever, stripping down and looking foolish, willing to be out-of-touch and out-of-step. Hart has his manic moments.

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Salt and pepper don't mix for laughs

Bill Maher on Larry King Live after "Politically Incorrect" is cancelled by ABC (2002)
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The End of Rational Public Discourse - Kevin Williamson
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Wack Pack Revelations 1 of 4
An hour of stupidity. Part 2 of Politically Incorrect. Also featuring: Slow Adam, Gary the retard, and Daniel Carver! Also check out part 1 Check out part 2 here : ...... Politically...

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Fun On "Garden of Hedon" set BTS from the Blu Ray
A little clip from the Making of GOH, on the Blu Ray! Super politically incorrect! http://www.kangaskahnfilms.com/store/shop-dvds-only.htm.

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JEREMIAH TRUE INTERVIEW - Student Banned From College Class For Disputing Rape Statistics
19-year-old Jeremiah True told his classmates that the oft-cited "1-in-5" statistic about rape was an exaggeration. This and other politically incorrect opinions led his humanities professor,...

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TODAY it was reported that Jeremy Clarkson has been sacked from the BBC.

The Top Gear host, who was hit with a suspension on March 10, was said to have been let go after what was described as a "fracas" with one of the producers.

Jeremy Clarkson has been sacked from the BBC [Wenn]

But the news comes after years of controversy surrounding the politically incorrect presenter.

Here are some of Jeremy's most shocking moments:

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Lorry drivers everywhere were up in arms after Clarkson said THIS about their day job

That time Clarkson used shocking racist language in unseen Top Gear footage.

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As Jeremy Clarkson is 'sacked from the BBC', we look back at his most controversial moments