Friday, October 15 2010
Their Mics Still Sound Nice: BET Puts Ladies First
Do women rappers have to shake it in our faces in order to get us to listen? As this doc. notes some, like Salt 'N' Pepa do it with sassiness and sex appeal "...you know, if I was a book, I would sell / 'cause every curve on my body got a story to tell".
Wednesday, April 1 2009
Alan Parsons Project Redux
Now that the Alan Parsons Project catalogue has been reissued, it's time for a reappraisal. Will anyone bite?
Sunday, January 18 2009
Flashbacks of a Fool
Let’s blame it on his lack of experience but Walsh presents a movie completely vacuous and uncaptivating.
Thursday, April 14 2005
The Woodsman (2004)
Director Kassell says, 'There's Kyra Sedgwick beating the shit out of Carlos Leon. I love this scene.'"
Thursday, January 6 2005
The Woodsman (2004)
Walter (Kevin Bacon) lives in a world perpetually gray.
Monday, November 8 2004
Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)
The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.
Friday, September 10 2004
The Cookout (2004)
The sports reporters are upset: if Todd's not going to fit a stereotype, what good is he?"
Monday, June 28 2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) comes to understand a new place for himself, and, no small thing, frames an acutely political history by his own story.
Thursday, February 5 2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.
