Movie Reviews

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest [Review]

by Morgan July 13, 2011 Exclusive

“I’m not trying to be the fucking Ginzu Master of this. It’s about the Tribe, it always has been.” Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest tells the true story behind the music of one of the most influential and innovative Hip Hop groups of our time. It gives an introspective [...]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

by Sean Deez May 8, 2009 Movie Reviews

Directed by Gavin Hood (Tsoti) Starring Huge Jackman, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am Has any series been as weirdly developed as the X-men series? The first one was good to build up a sentimental and in depth plot, but lacked any cool action and development of some of the most memorable cartoon and [...]

At The Movies: Love and Basketball

by eA April 2, 2009 Movie Reviews

Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Deenis Haysbert, Alfre Woodard Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood A twist on a classic love story about falling in love with your childhood best friend, Love and Basketball presents the conflicts between the love for the game of basketball and the love for another person. Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s first feature film, [...]

At The Movies: Boyz N The Hood

by Freddie C March 31, 2009 Movie Reviews

Directed by John Singleton Starring Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nia Long, Morris Chestnut During the early and mid-90s, Hollywood saw a number of movies dedicated to showing the experiences of young black men growing up in the ghetto, most notably New Jack City, Menace II Society, Juice, and, to a lesser extent, [...]

Biggie Smalls: Rap Phenomenon

by Sean Deez March 22, 2009 Movie Reviews

Directed by April Maiya To kick off the 2009 year, hip hop was granted one of its many wishes: a biopic about Notorious B.I.G. Unfortunately, Notorious [read review] was greatly underachieving with a variety of flaws, misled information, and bad casting. It wasn’t the movie everyone was expecting and sadly, it just wasn’t a good [...]

At The Movies: Notorious

by Sean Deez January 30, 2009 Movie Reviews

Notorious, the biopic of Christopher Wallace, deals with the struggle, the hustle, the rise, the fame, the women, the game, and the eventual “fall” of the Notorious B.I.G. Ranging from Biggie’s time as a kid to his funeral along Fort Greene, this George Tillman Jr. film provides us with stunning performance visuals of the Black [...]

At The Movies: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Sean Deez January 9, 2009 Movie Reviews

Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swindon, Taraji P. Henson, Julie Ormond Written by: Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich) Directed by: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac) Yes, it’s worth all the acclaim. I’ll say that off the bat to put everything at ease. It should and will win a bunch of awards. [...]

At The Movies: Seven Pounds

by Sean Deez December 26, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Barry Pepper, Woody Harrelson Directed by: Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit of Happyness) Curiousity can do a lot of crazy things to a person. It can make them ask rather silly questions, swallow their pride, go beyond their limits, or even take particular risk. What does Seven Pounds do with our curiousity? [...]

At The Movies: Slumdog Millionaire

by Sean Deez December 12, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan Directed by: Danny Boyle It’s been a minute since a movie review has been posted up on the site, and quite frankly, none is more worthy than the new Danny Boyle film, Slumdog Millionaire. It is supposed to be this years ‘little engine that could’ Oscar nomination similar [...]

At The Movies: Burn After Reading

by Sean Deez September 19, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Brad Pit Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men) Whatever hot streak existed in Hollywood belonged to the Coen Brothers. Coming off of the scorching (and deservedly so) No Country For Old Men, Joel and Ethan decided [...]

At The Movies: Tropic Thunder

by Sean Deez September 5, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. Directed by: Ben Stiller (Cable Guy, Zoolander) The “Tropic Thunder” experience begins without warning as fake trailers starring the soon to be protagonists are shown. The quick 10 minute batch of trailers provides a quick shock, but it is simply a warm up. It’s a perk that [...]

At The Movies: Pineapple Express

by Sean Deez August 29, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Seth Rogan, James Franco, Rosie Perez, and Gary Cole Jr. Directed by: David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Snow Angels) The gap between hip hop and Seth Rogan really isn’t that large. If you have seen Knocked Up, you may remember the first song to be heard was “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” [...]

Review: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

by Sean Deez August 6, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Dave Chappelle and plenty of Hip Hop Acts. Directed by: Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) The movie opens with a man having difficulty starting up his car and getting help from Dave and another man. Behind him, a band (The Brooklyn Steppers) is playing “Overnight Celebrity” in such [...]

At The Movies: Step Brothers

by Sean Deez August 2, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Will Farell, John C. Reilly and Richard Jenkins Directed by: Adam McKay (Talledega Nights, Anchorman) If the trailers didn’t have you laughing, don’t worry, there are still plenty more laughs to go around in this 90 minute laugh-fest. What you didn’t see in the trailer were some other ridiculously crude moments that provide some [...]

At The Movies: The Dark Knight

by Sean Deez July 19, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine Directed by: Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins) This is not a comic-book movie; it is in a league of its own. While others have claimed this summer to be loaded with tremendous blockbuster pictures and such, I differ. I think we’ve seen all of [...]

At The Movies: Hancock

by Sean Deez July 10, 2008 Movie Reviews

Starring: Will Smith, Jason Batemen and Charlize Theron Directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom) With this being my first movie review, let me start off by saying that I am a huge movie buff. If hip hop is my first love, movies are a very close second in a tie with hockey. [...]

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