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Stripes

Anita: You sleep until noon and then you watch Rocky and Bullwinkle and then you drive your cab what a couple hours a day and then you come home and order out food and

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48 Hrs.

Redneck: What kind of cop are you? Reggie Hammond: You know what I am? I’m you’re worst fucking nightmare, man. I’m a nigger with a badge. That means I have permission to kick your

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Ishtar

Who would have ever thought back in the day that Warren Beatty would prove to be brilliant as a rapper and such a disaster as a white bread singer. The idea behind Ishtar was

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Thelma and Louise

“You bitches from hell. You’re gonna pay for this!”  Earl the harried truck driver. Thelma and Louise is grade A propaganda of the first order, sort of a female version of the Melvin Peebles

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The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout has a great opening scene. Wide Receiver Billy Cole (Tae Bo King Billy Blanks), hopped up on God knows what,  is having the game of his life, which somehow is

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Midnight Run

I think under different circumstances … You and I probably still would have  up hating each other.” I generally find Charles Grodin to be almost unbearably annoying, and I haven’t seen even one of

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Lethal Weapon

“Hello, Sugar Tits” Was it really necessary to make four of these? I mean how original was the first one to begin with? People would have you believe that Shane Black was a genius

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Boyz in the Hood

“Boo-Ya” When Matty Rich’s Straight Out of Brooklyn was released the same day as Jungle Fever, the petulant little leader of the Black New Wave struck out at his inexperience, unwillingness to go to

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Do the Right Thing

It bothers me when people get ticked off at Spike Lee’s public persona, because I think that he does himself and his work a disservice by falling into the same trap that he so

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Menace II Society

“My grandpa asked me once if I care if I lived or died. Yeah I do. And now it’s too late.”  I am white. I have also often accused by more than a few

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Fresh

Sam Jackson seems to be more than willing to show up for any movie where there is a crew of at least three people, but he seemed to make a special effort to let

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Deep Cover

Boyz ‘N’ the Hood had Ice Cube in it, but Dr. Dre kicks his beats all over the druggy hypnotized world of Deep Cover. I remember seeing the trailers for this movie and thinking

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