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Don’t let your mouth get your ass in trouble. Of the founding fathers of the blaxploitation genre, Shaft was mainstream Hollywood’s first foray into ethnocentric entertainment geared towards black urban …
Read MoreIt’s a pleasant feeling when you walk by something that you’ve seen before on a movie screen. It feels larger than life, immortalized. When you get that feeling in Boston, …
Read MoreCraig Gilner is 16-years-old, a taciturn, nervous, shell of a teenager. His face, boyish and innocent, sinks between his two scrawny shoulders, as if it could hide from the troubles …
Read MoreRemembering the pre-dating show era of VH1
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I grew up in Prince William County, Virginia, the location and subject of Annabel Park and Eric Byler’s fascinating new documentary, 9500 Liberty. It is not a bad place, and …
Read MoreBen Affleck’s latest Boston-bound flick The Town prides itself on its Beantown roots. The characters sport jerseys of Bruins and Red Sox heroes and speak in a slurred concoction of …
Read MoreHBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” is an expensive, height-aspiring prohibition drama that might just be dead in the water. Yes, I am taking a negative stance on a Terence Winter (“The Sopranos”) …
Read MoreWho runs this Town? Ben Affleck apparently wants to. He, along with Martin Scorsese, are hell-bent on depicting Boston as the sequel to New York City’s gritty Times Square of …
Read MoreBoth on screen and off, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are adorable, almost annoyingly so. They’re like those Sour Patch Kids commercials: one minute you want to punch them in …
Read MoreAnimal Kingdom, the Australian crime export from first time director David Michôd, is a pretty good film that falls short of being great by making one crucial mistake. It’s remarkable …
Read MoreThe trailer for George Clooney’s latest film, The American, shows Clooney’s character taking a page from Jason Bourne’s book. He shoots bullets and steely gazes and cocks guns with a …
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Don’t know what to watch out for this Fall? Well, it isn’t the leaves you have to worry about. It’s the month of October.
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