NOW THAT WE'RE GROWN | THE WOOD

[@KeishaCharmaine]

When I want a lighthearted black classic to watch, this is my go-to.

[@meagan42]

Bondy, I love “A low down dirty shame” and “The Inkwell” too.

[@brittanybeautifulblack9109]

Yes for the Inkwell🖤

[@earthangel90210]

@@brittanybeautifulblack9109 inkwell gave predator vibes looking back at it

[@jessinthecomments]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who knows The Inkwell! I love that movie. It’s problematic though.

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

Yes

[@vanessabillups3422]

I love these old movie reviews. I would love to see you all do Higher Learning.

[@katiepop3442]

Now that would be a good one...except unfortunately not much has changed since then

[@RainChoc_]

Omg can you ladies please do “2 Can play that Game” 👏🏿👏🏿

[@chocolatediva0928]

Yes this would be a good one

[@vryan000]

Great suggestion Omg

[@justcallmebetty7717]

Bondy don't forget about Jason's Lyric

[@HappyHealthyHair]

@BondyBlue, I cant wait for "10 things I hate about you" , you know that's the modernized version of "SHAKESPEARES; TAMING OF THE SHREW" I love those types of screenplay remakes 🥰

[@mollyshaj.3888]

I think certain parts they discussed were explained and they missed it. Like Mike saying he was a little sad and them initially being against the wedding. It wasn't about Roland getting married in general, they had no problem with that. Their issue was Roland moving away. Mike explained how he moved around alot when he was a kid and was never able to make friends. They didn't stop moving and stay somewhere permanantly until they got to California so Roland and Slim were his only friends. He was scared of them being seperated, that also plays into why he didn't go to NYU and stayed in Cali. Slim went away to play ball but he came back.

[@duh-pisces8616]

Ok no judgement that poem in 10 things I hate about you get me in tears!

[@darkwriter_xx94]

That whole conversation about words with letter C makes me want to hear you all review Dope especially since it has a very similar conversation and is sort of a sequel to The Wood.

[@sagqueen1984]

Cruel Intentions, Clueless, Save the last Dance and American Pie

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

Y'all should definitely do Brown Sugar. I feel like it's a healthier love story than loving basketball. 😅.. but hey we'll have to see about that .. Now That We're Grown.. 😄.. See what I did there. 😂

[@I_am_divanicole]

The story is Mike Epps was with Keisha, broke up, and then got with Sanaa. He ended up breaking Sanaa's heart by going back to Keisha, saying she was his true love. I remember reading the Essence article Sanaa did around that time.

[@ThinkNCapDesignz]

Omar Epps

[@I_am_divanicole]

Everybody knows what I meant

[@tenderbrown74]

Yes, that's exactly how it happened.

[@tashastalksbb1]

This is true! See…we didn’t even need social media back in the day to find out about things.

[@100Stratusfiedx]

Omg I need you to do “Thirteen”. My momma was so scared hanging out with certain white girls would influence my behavior.

[@tgirl1021]

Yas! Thirteen & She's Too Young scared me away from them!! Like wtf is happening?!

[@GiftedKG]

Thirteen was my movie !!

[@5cburrell]

Stacey made a cameo in the movie Dope…same director ✊🏽❤️

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

I was happy to see Rick Famuyima the director put Stacey back on his feet.

[@EminJai]

Bondy I suggested the Inkwell in one of your lives, I sure hope you do a Now that we're grown for it. It would be cool if all the ladies were in on that one as well. Lots to unpack with the Haves and Have Nots dynamic between the moms, another Suzanne Douglass performance and Joe Morton!!!! I'm looking forward to that.

[@CandyB.23]

The character Stacy was the security guard at the high school on the movie DOPE

[@selmajohnson1333]

I would love for you to do The Best Man

[@katiepop3442]

I loved this review what a great surprise...Thank you ladies...

[@joshuamcdowell9745]

Do a Now That We're Grown for the movie Enough with Jennifer Lopez

[@DOMCORLENEtv]

We need Poetic Justice too, Bondy! 😩 x

[@jestinapickett900]

Inkwell! My most favorite black movie ever! I can't wait for your review on this one!💃🗣👏

[@ken123abc]

Just gonna “like” now & come back for the premier

[@ChasityXoxo]

Girl I keep saying this but keep these coming I absolutely love every single one!!! Do Stella got her groove back and the brothers!!! I just watched your Baby Boy one!! Keep them coming baby!!!

[@cherih.6370]

I love these movie reviews so much. I can't remember, has The Best Man been reviewed yet? I'd love to see it, if not

[@nikkibee4277]

I enjoyed the three of you together doing the movie review.

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

Y'all should go ahead and do the brothers too. 😁

[@sjones2481]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣.not call Richard T Jones "Ike Jr"

[@MelissaPensItDown]

Bondy can you do “The Wedding Planner” & “How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days” oh & “Save the Last Dance” 😆🙏🏾 today’s kids will never know!

[@joshuamcdowell9745]

Or Enough

[@MelissaPensItDown]

@@joshuamcdowell9745 For sure!

[@jasmineking8040]

Definitely how to lose a guy in 10 days

[@MelissaPensItDown]

@@jasmineking8040 Ok! I kinda wanted a sequel 🤣

[@queenrn4447]

I enjoyed the movie review and thanks for the good conversation Ladies. 🥰

[@iamgooberz]

He was on the movie DOPE as Stacey the Security Guard too!

[@alexshanelle]

Just happy to be here I love this movie too!

[@katiepop3442]

Bondy you should do The Notebook

[@colaholmes8045]

🥹 good one!

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

💯‼️🎯

[@rl6228]

I cry every time I watch that movie. It is my favorite movie!

[@jasmineking8040]

My tears are already ready

[@Therealcrashbandicoot]

Y’all did so good In this y’all should do poetic justice 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@shelleyjaee]

I would love for you to do Save The Last Dance

[@Daoneandonlyt]

Some “men” Still avoid catching the garter belt during a wedding. I witnessed it at a friend’s wedding got so annoyed with the fact that people still do this.

[@jayisagem8]

OMG Bondy I watched all your now that we are grown and I love it!!!!!! BTW Omar was dating Keisha in the '90's. Cause he called me at a restaurant to tell me he couldn't make it so, Keisha and Omar had been on and off for years until..... all you said was true. Some tea

[@nyiahleigh]

Slim lowkey wanted Tanya too. Especially when he said “you look good in those jeans” before they left Tanya’s house

[@therealmarlonbellamy]

This movie is the movie of my life. I was just like Mike growing up. Fun Facts: Christina Milian was one of the girls dancing with Slim & Roland at the dance & the girl who Mike was trying to get it on with during the bet was Li’Miya Good. She’s the sister of Megan Good. Can we please get reviews on the following coming of age movies: Cooley High House Party Boyz N The Hood Juice Crooklyn Love Don’t Cost A Thing Roll Bounce ATL Dope

[@derickspencejr.6998]

Great review on this movie. This movie takes me back when I was in high school. Hope you do a review on “Light it up”. That film also came out in 1999.

[@EminJai]

What's funny is how the whole "betting" thing happened in Cooley High as well. And I agree with Necey. Experience is the best, so waiting until you're a bit older for sex is best. But these young folks won't listen (because just like us as teens) because impatience and they THINK they know better.

[@colaholmes8045]

‘Best Man’ ‘Juice’?? 🤞🏾💛

[@minkagaston]

I enjoyed this so much ladies❤

[@sammy69831]

Yay! One of my fav movies can't wait 🍿

[@urstruelytrick]

OMG I LOVE THIS & I LOVE YALL!!!

[@saljo4424]

If this world was mine yes bondy

[@personatrue3603]

16:03 seriously happened to me when I moved from Detroit, Mi to Ga … they tried to pick until they found out where I was from and how I wasn’t going for it!

[@sjay7195]

Listen I had no idea about the tea with Omar & Saana. Now I gotta do research. Lol

[@sjay7195]

My brother is 12 years older than me so I didn’t have that growing up. He didn’t play about me though. But in school my older cousins definitely took that role. I definitely used to hide who I was talking to in school because they would roll up on them 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@crysnas8252]

Loved 🥰 💐this Thank you

[@resecup3584]

I would love to see "31 going on 13" with Jennifer Garner

[@shelleydennis8350]

Thank you Bondy! I requested this one. I love this movie

[@queenzscott1868]

Omg I love the Wood lol

[@drammy04]

It’s crazy how much we gossip and talk to our girls, but are shocked and/or disgusted when men to do the same.

[@morriewilson1468]

It brings back so many memories of me and my girls in the club rip to my sister she made up a sign to make us aware if the guy we dancing with was ugly 😝 😂 😂

[@tenderbrown74]

Bondy, no disrespect to Jamie and Necey, but I prefer you doing these reviews alone. A bit too much side talk. FYI, I went to St. Mary's (in the 80s), so I definitely feel you on the St. Aug and Prep dances!!

[@kendranicole7157]

Great review❤️

[@samk_beautytap2020]

Love this movie, can't wait😍

[@diyonnawesley7271]

I’ve Been watching you for a few months now. I love your interpretation of the movies I would love if you do New Jersey Drive and Menace to society.

[@shamonewilson2157]

I like the 3 some 😂😂 but I'm use to it being 4

[@tashathomas5334]

He left Keisha to be with Sana but went back Keisha

[@kdiva2780]

😂 at y’all thinking Keisha “left her career” as a member of Total for marriage. That career left her Chile. IJS

[@samk_beautytap2020]

It was Keshia Epps from total

[@personatrue3603]

32:31 Chile 4 bags of chips or 2bags, pop/soda, and candy

[@angelgurl525]

It’s crazy I just watched this last week and now I’m seeing this. Looking forward to hearing y’all opinions

[@jessinthecomments]

I was 19, a sophomore in college, he was 24. It was awkward and over fast. He wanted another shot and I never gave it to him lol.

[@ThinkNCapDesignz]

May I request Set It Off? 🙏🏾

[@morgannn8806]

Are you going to do the brothers ? Everyone always gets annoyed with me when I dissect movies, so I love these 😭♥️

[@michelleflood6824]

You on the right track Bondy…Omar cheated on Sanaa and I heard there was also more to that

[@Dimp13fac3]

Bondy do The Best Man next

[@missalesha4618]

Do you like Jason’s lyric?

[@ShavonMyles]

When y’all have a son you’ll realize EXACTLY how scared boys were back when you were coming up.. because the conversations I’ve overheard I feel bad a little bit…

[@I_am_divanicole]

Family Matters did the light skin mom switch out near the end of the series.

[@drammy04]

I feel like the guys I remember liking who were the popular boys lost it early, but majority of the regular guys and or corny guys probably lost it later. I’m realizing that raising a HS boy myself.

[@5cburrell]

Gabby wasn’t in She’s All That… it was Lil Kim lol

[@IamMs.A353]

I love the this movie 🥰

[@fericegillespie1987]

I’m so glad you ladies are reviewing The Wood. I was 12 when I first saw it in theaters… still one of my favorite movies 🍿

[@katiepop3442]

I was already 21, but It was the first movie I seen by myself... My friends wanted to go see lake placid..and im like no way..Im gonna see The Wood..so we split up at the movies...It was so much better than lake placid...great memory!!!

[@drammy04]

I think Slim had huge self esteem issues that he hid behind being corny. He didn’t start looking good until HS and probably thought he was the least in the group. A lot of men carry that like we do, but it’s harder because they are the chasers. I remember you saying similar about Michael Blackson, Bondy.

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

So Roland ends up with Alicia at the end of everything 😅😂.. according to brown sugar. 🤣

[@vryan000]

Y’all didn’t know Sanaa was the industry haux? She was with most of them including Denzel and she even was the one that bit Beyoncé at the industry party and Tiffany Haddish exposed it 🙃

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

I feel like Stacey on Snowfall is a combo with his Character from Lockdown. 😭

[@joshuamcdowell9745]

I felt bad for him in Lockdown

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

@@joshuamcdowell9745 so bad ! He's talked about how that role took a major tole on his mental/psychiatric health.

[@brandygee9954]

Kima has been married the whole time they were in Total. So if they had something going on- oh my....

[@MarkeySlaughter]

Please do Why do fools Fall in love

[@angelh6345]

I couldn't get into the wood. I'm happy Bondy and the panel are here to recap it. I think I just wasn't invested in the story after so many movies like this was out around that time too. Group of men friends that went through some stuff

[@drammy04]

I think they casted the black actresses that were popping at the time. So at best, indirectly colorist because of the skin tones/aesthetic that Hollywood green lit.

[@tspalmer1989]

Rumor was Keisha and Pam was messing around. not Kima

[@tjay33179]

Forgot all that do deliver us from eva now that movie is problematic asf as a grown up now and I would love to get your thoughts on it im sure it's already on the roster

[@LakerGang_95]

U should do Menace II Society

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

They prolly took the clothes back to Tanya after they got their tuxes cleaned.. they juss made it back before he man got back

[@202WinkProductions]

Just in time .

[@giftylee5329]

Alicia was considered the baddest and mike actually liked her. So he let the other person think he won

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

Even if slim had a perspective about his mama's value because he never seen her with a man. That still would be a reflection of how she carries herself and how she speaks about herself concerning the subject. Cuz I've aeen quite a few men be raised by a single moms and they don't think of their mom as less valuable because they haven't ever seen her with a man and that's the reflection of their moms carrying themselves with confidence and speaking on themselves and about themselves with confidence and self worth no matter what. But if you have a mom that's always talking down to herself or always doing things that are dishonorable to herself then it would skew your view of women who don't have a man.

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

Just because Lil Mama was around doesn't mean she was necessarily good to him. Cuz funny that you bring up Bill Bellamy's character on the brothers. And like you said his mama was verbally abusive to him and his brother because she had issues with their daddies. Slim may have had that same experience even though we didn't see it. And then thinking about the fact that he played basketball and seems as though his career ended abruptly. He could have had an experience where his folks was hella supportive of him and then abandon him when he wasn't playing ball no more. And that could have been a consistency throughout his life. Whenever he was winning his family was there whenever he wasn't doing what they expected of him they weren't giving the same sort of support.. just my inference.

[@brandygee9954]

I'm such a fan of Richard T. Jones. He is so fine to me 🤤!

[@tenderbrown74]

That chocolate skin, though!😍

[@brandygee9954]

@@tenderbrown74 💯

[@shealikedabutta8938]

I thought Slim put in on the wedding

[@callmesisi]

Omar Epps and Mike Epps are cousins. Both fine

[@lawyerleya22ify]

I have two older brothers...guys could not even be within arms reach of us...to this day, they still refer to us as their little sisters (I'm almost 40 now)...and it was important for them to teach us how to fight in case they were not around...LOL...

[@goddessnoir290]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😂

[@talicianicole9524]

Omar had an older child with someone before Keisha

[@queenscarlettpimpsunkiss..5537]

Men deflee have women hate problems even when they have mother's. Especially when they are single moms. Or the child witness the daddy or men disrespecting the momma. Or if the child experienced abuse and thee momma did nothing to protect them. And like you mention bill Bellamy character on The Brothers.. his mother was in his life and was hard & cold with him..

[@sharonwilkins3583]

Mryon Rolle the former football player who become neutrosurgeon