Movie Review: DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA Starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Evin Ahmad
If you missed the original Den of Thieves when it came out in 2018, well, you’re not alone. Although it did relatively well against its budget, it failed to win over most critics and pulled in about $80 million. I was part of the crowd that thoroughly enjoyed it, so when they announced the second […]
110: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins
Straight Outta Compton tore it up at the box office this weekend. In an age when musical bio-pics tend to stall out at the box office what did Compton get right that Love & Mercy, Get On Up and so many others didn’t? And are we, of all people, qualified to discuss it? Of course […]
Movie Review: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
After seeing Straight Outta Compton, it’s almost like things haven’t changed all that much. While N.W.A. burst onto the scene in 1988 with the anthem “Fuck the Police,” the song seems more relevant now than ever, given the racial tension that is going on in Ferguson. While F. Gary Gray’s biopic of N.W.A brilliantly shows […]
