Movie Reviews
Hip hop loves movies, not only do you have groups like Wu-Tang having their styles influenced by kung fu flicks, but you've got rappers like Will Smith, Ice Cube, and LL Cool J developing full fledge movie careers. But even if Common or T.I. isn't making an appearance in the movie, HipHopDX will still be there to tell you whether or not to spend your hard earned money on it or just cop the 30 new Lil' Wayne mixtapes that just dropped.
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June 13th, 2008 - DeMarco Williams | Theatre Release |
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It’s mean. It’s green. It’s a fighting machine. Yeah, it’s increasingly apparent that whenever folks see Marvel Comics coming to the box office, they’d best stay clear of its way. With this probable summer winner being released on the heels of late spring’s satisfying Iron Man, the house that comic book legend Stan Lee built is two-for-two in ’08. So, in typical Hollywood fashion, Marvel’s unleashing a cast of characters on the public over the next few years: Wolverine in ’09; Thor and more Iron Man in ’10; Captain America and The Avengers in ’11. And if the suits at Marvel know what’s best, they’ll have the star of The
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June 18th, 2008 - DeMarco Williams | Theatre Release |
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Please, a moment of silence for M. Night Shyamalan’s career. Though the priest has been tweaking his eulogy through a string of the director’s recent works – Signs, The Village and the tragically awful Lady in the Water - he can officially commence with the funeral now. The Happening is a disaster.
Actually, its dreary premise –some mysterious airborne agent leaves people in the Northeast with a short-circuited brain that makes them suicidal- is kooky but tolerable. And its stars - Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel play a couple going through marital woes- are respectable. Sadly, everything else about the film is put together with the intricacy of toilet
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June 2nd, 2008 - B. Love | Theatre Release |
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If Hollywood had the good sense God gave a mule, they'd strip George Lucas of his Writer's Guild membership, take a light saber to his laptop and freeze any heretofore unproduced scripts in carbonite.
Which is a polite way of saying that the Star Wars mastermind's story (not to mention David Koepp's screenplay) for this sequel is full of so much horseshit, I half expected to see the gun-slinging ghosts of John Wayne and Jack Palance walking through a scene at any given moment. Which, come to think of it, would actually have been slightly more believable than this half-baked hogwash about an alien artifact found in a crate
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