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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Column: Busted Headphones

Seven Ways to Detox

by Quentin B. Huff

[19.Jan.09] :. It's 2009, and that means it has now been a full decade since Dr. Dre's last official release. Here are some suggestions for survival while you continue to await his long-gestating follow-up, Detox.

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Music Review

Ice Cube: The Essentials

by Mike Joseph

[26.Nov.08] :. It’s hard to give a thumbs-up to an album that calls itself The Essentials when there’s so much essential material missing.

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Column: Busted Headphones

Songs in the Key of Rap

by Quentin B. Huff

[23.Oct.08] :. The relationship between singing and rapping has had a transforming effect on hip-hoppers and singers alike.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

Film Review

First Sunday

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.08] :. Of all the players, Katt Williams appears to comprehend the unpleasantness of the entire exercise.

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Loveable gangsta Ice Cube ain’t done yet

by Lydia Martin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Apr.07] :. MIAMI—Ice Cube has a bag of sunflower seeds in front of him and the TV with the sound on low in his bayfront suite. He’s trying to tell you about starring in “Are We Done...

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.07] :. A showdown with a raccoon who steals his Corn Nuts grants Ice Cube, Mr. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, the opportunity to mutter, "You should know not to mess with a man's nuts." I can't tell you how painful it is.

Snoop Dogg: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

by Mike Schiller

[4.Dec.06] :. Snoop Dogg invites a bunch of friends to the studio, records a small army of songs, accomplishes not much of anything.

Ice Cube: Laugh Now, Cry Later

by Quentin B. Huff

[7.Jul.06] :. Ice Cube's been livin' large off his gangsta boogie and movies like Boyz-N-the-Hood and Friday. So why does he want to be a "microphone master"?

XXX: State of the Union: Special Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.05] :. D quotes Tupac -- 'Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal' -- and hip-hop saves the nation.

XXX: State of the Union (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.05] :. Ice Cube makes an unusual action hero, cooler and shorter than most.

Are We There Yet? (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. Nick (Ice Cube) is defiantly ungrown-up. In other words, he's ripe for a life lesson.

Barbershop: DVD Collector’s Set (2002/2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.04] :. The Barbershop movies focus their energies on familial feelings and communal inclinations, and Cedric's wily jokes.

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.04] :. 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.

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Feb.04] :. These first five minutes grant Eddie and the barbershop some specific background, of resistance and community.

Torque (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jan.04] :. Along with Will Yun Lee, Jay Hernandez provides bookends of street-cred color for pretty white star Martin Henderson.

Friday After Next (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. 'I look at myself and the movies I do as a brand,' Ice Cube tells 'Variety'.

Barbershop (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.02] :. Barbershop's multiple charms are all sweet.

All About the Benjamins (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.02] :. 'All About the Benjamins'... relies heavily on the considerable chemistry between Epps and Cube: sometimes it's just fun to watch them entertain one another, which they clearly do.

Three Kings (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Puke green bile, dark blood, convulsing pink. tissue. A close-up shot following a bullet's path into and through internal organs is a frankly terrible image. In most war movies, bullets do tend to fly. But you only see their external effects: blood spurts, faces contort, handheld cameras zig and zag, explosions-effects create aestheticized, often slo-mo, chaos. In David O. Russell's Three Kings, however, you see the insides: the bullet rushes forward, stops, lodging in mangled, throbbing flesh while fluids accumulate. It's visceral and immediate. It's surreal and nasty.

Next Friday (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Arriving in theaters five years later, Next Friday is the kind of sequel that will elicit much grumping from critics and other people who purport know what's good for you. The problems with the film are obvious -- like all sequels, it's designed to make money.

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In 'Ghosts of Mars', Desolation is a perfect candidate to ensure the human-humans' survival: not only is he the resilient and brilliant Ice Cube, but he is also the consummate delinquent champion.