Columns
Monday, February 16 2009
Biggie Gives Us One More Chance
Biggie Smalls' mythology hasn't afforded him a dreamy endgame à la Tupac or Elvis. Nobody imagines Biggie pulling the ultimate Machiavellian coup by making the world believe he's dead while he's secretly chillin' in Jamaica.
Reviews
Friday, April 24 2009
Notorious
More fan companion piece than galvanizing cinema, this stands at a distance too respectful to get under anyone's skin.
Friday, January 16 2009
Notorious
Notorious looks back on the day when hip-hop was coming into its seeming own, when telling stories was a way to make order from chaos, as well as money and, as Biggie saw it, mo problems.
Blogs
Tuesday, April 21 2009
Why Biopics Just Don't Work
It's not a hard genre to mess up. There are so many pre and post production hazards to overcome that the moviemaking winds up the…
News
Friday, January 16 2009
Q&A with ‘Notorious' star Jamal Woolard
Before this month, Jamal Woolard was an obscure rapper going by the stage name of Gravy. And Gravy was best known for a 2006 shooting…
