Molloy recruited Jahmin Assa, the film’s production designer, to pay tribute to those earlier chapters in numerous ways. Assa’s goal was to create something that made “Los Angeles feel timeless and as ...

Eddie Murphy is back on the beat in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, one of the new movies on Netflix this week. Murphy, of course, starred as Axel Foley in three previous Beverly Hills Cop movies, in 1984, ...

Director Mark Molloy said once Eddie Murphy turned up on the set of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the esteemed actor instantly became the Axel Foley audiences know and love from the 1984 action comedy ...

EXCLUSIVE: It’s no accident that a new trailer for Netflix‘s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F looks and sounds a heckuva lot like the trailer for the original 1984 movie starring Eddie Murphy. That’s because ...

There’s an art to crafting modern sequels to movies that otherwise put a full stop on their stories way back in the ’80s or ’90s. Some nail it; many don’t. Fortunately, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is ...

Eddie Murphy joins Glen Powell and Nicole Kidman as Netflix traffic drivers. It’s “Back to the Future” week at Netflix, literally. Not only is Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 classic time travel comedy the #6 ...

It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old ...

The legacy sequel is a welcome return to form for the star and franchise, that while it can’t quite recapture the original, goes to some fun new places. Feeling in some ways like fellow legacy sequel ...

Exhaustion of every sort pervades Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. You see it in its dearth of ideas, as the film recycles structure, set pieces and even music cues from the original. The humor about how ...

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Composer Lorne Balfe is uniquely suited to the challenges of scoring a reboot of a classic like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.” In 2022, Balfe served as score producer on “Top Gun: Maverick” and ...