Review: Netflix's 'Project Power' flexes its muscles nicely

Ryan Murphy is taking full advantage of his Netflix deal, isn’t he? Not only has he released two seasons of “The Politician” in just over a year, he’s also released the series “Hollywood,” and is prepping the release of “Ratched” in the coming month. Not only that, but he’s trying to finish up production on his musical film, “Prom.” Oh, and just when you think he couldn’t possibly have another project in the works, “The Boys in the Band” is about to debut on Netflix later this month.

Jamie Foxx‘s new show is heading to Netflix!

Netflix has ordered a comedy series starring Jamie Foxx titled “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” Variety has learned.The multi-camera series is inspired by Foxx’s relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx. The series will also star David Alan Grier, Kyla-Drew, Porscha Coleman, and Jonathan Kite.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNetflix has given a formal series green light to Dad Stop Embarrassing Me, a father daughter comedy starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx.

Also Read: Lily Collins Is an Adorable, Dorky American in First 'Emily in Paris' Teaser (Video)The series marks Foxx’s return to scripted TV, where he got his start with “The Jamie Foxx Show” at The WB, which he co-created with Evans. That series ran for five seasons.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series starring Jamie Foxx titled “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me,” Variety has learned.The multi-camera series is inspired by Foxx’s relationship with his daughter, Corinne Foxx. The series will also star David Alan Grier, Kyla-Drew, Porscha Coleman, and Jonathan Kite.

Angelique Jackson If you think you’ve seen Dominique Fishback before, that’s because you probably have. Since 2014, Fishback has stolen scenes in films like “The Hate U Give” and starred for two seasons as Darlene on HBO’s “The Deuce,” in addition to appearances on “Blue Bloods,” “The Affair,” “Royal Pains” and “The Americans.”But with Netflix’s “Project Power,” the young performer is fully embracing her own superpower – in the form of her megawatt smile and her even bigger talent.

Superpowered people can be extremely tough to put on film.It’s really easy for them to look “cartoony”, and unrealistic to viewers. Directors of ‘Project Power’ Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman know that, so they decided to use as many practical effects as possible, and I’m always for that.In the above interview, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback take us behind the scenes and into their super-powered world.

Project Power is Netflix's newest big, dumb, seemingly algorithmically-generated action movie. It's about a drug that gives people superpowers for five minutes at a time that's sweeping the streets of New Orleans and causing a lot of problems.

Reportedly, Machine Gun Kelly, also known as Colson Baker, will appear alongside Jamie Foxx in the new production, Project Power, from Netflix. Baker’s most recent project comes after the release of his Megan-Fox-starring music video, “Bloody Valentine.” In a new interview, Colson joked that he “can’t catch a break in a bathtub” in reference to the scene in his video where Megan drops a hairdryer into the water with him.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWith theaters open in 44 of the 50 states, cinemas are finding something to show — although turnout is still so modest that distributors are still being hesitant about what to release.

Dominique Fishback was flying from her home in New York City to Los Angeles for a chemistry test with Jamie Foxx when she lost her wallet. Having appeared in and HBO's, the 29-year-old was up for perhaps her largest part yet — a leading role in Netflix's summer blockbuster — and wasn't going to let the mishap distract her from this opportunity.

When Netflix began promoting its latest entry in the summer-that-never-was blockbuster stakes, Project Power, it was hard to suppress an eye-roll of weary puzzlement at the fanboys eager to slam it as lame and derivative. Sure, it has conceptual similarities to the Bradley Cooper vehicle Limitless, to DC Comics property Hourman, to Image Comics'War Heroes.

Stream QueensFrom classic sitcoms to a socially distant show, this week's streaming options are both entertaining and wide-ranging. Tune in to see a pop star in an all-new light, watch Gen Z try to figure out politics or laugh along as teens live their side-hustle dreams as bounty hunters.You could take a trip back to 1950s America for a poignant story on race, or keep your journey a little more recent to revisit a much loved '90s sitcom.

Teenage Bounty Hunters, a new dramedy produced by Orange Is the New Black's Jenji Kohan and created by American Princess writer Kathleen Jordan. The truth is right there in the title: The leads, fraternal twins Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini), are both teenagers and bounty hunters.

In “Project Power,” a new supercharged, high-concept Netflix film and oblique run at the superhero genre; 1) disposable black and brown people in New Orleans are used as guinea pigs for a new experimental street drug that gives users unpredictable and fleeting superpowers for five minutes; 2) a sympathetic cop uses those same narcotics to “level the playing field” in a city riddled with crime and corrupt superiors who pass on amplified bad guys to secretive feds or men in black without

kahuna, if you will — but rather a series of suppliers and wannabe kingpins with foreign accents.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the hurtling, slapdash fanciful action thriller “Project Power,” people get high by swallowing a tablet that looks like a cross between a tiny light bulb and an old Contact cold-relief capsule. The bottom half of the pill is dark and ridged, the top half is a bright orange Tesla energy field.