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A Reckoning

By Bobby LePire | August 2018

If a movie is called slow, it typically means that it drags, at least in a few places. Maybe certain scenes are…

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If a movie is called slow, it typically means that it drags, at least in a few places. Maybe certain scenes are extraneous, or a joke goes on for too long....

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The disco is the worst part of Disco Godfather, and there’s a lot of it. More often than the desired amount, which would be zero, the movie screeches to...

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In the ancient halls of film protagonists, Dolemite stands alone. He’s a full-time pimp, part-time poet and a black belt in the Elvis school of karate....

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On March 31st, 1971, an independent film made by a black man for the black community opened at the Grand Circus Theatre in Detroit and broke the house...

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I’ve been somewhat of a casual fan of The Mission Impossible franchise. In 1996, it was a less campy, yet American version of James Bond. It capitalized...

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When you purchase a ticket for a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, you kind of know what to expect. His track record involves a lot of terrible movies,...

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Stones. Thanos is after the stones. And he’s been hunting these stones since well before the Marvel cinematic universe timeline officially began with the...

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Drawing from a promising script he co-wrote, Korean director Jung Byung-gil (Confession of Murder) squanders the chance of doing something original or...

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Howard J. Ford’s Never Let Go is a fast-paced action thriller about a mother, who is pushed to the limits to find her kidnapped infant daughter. The film...

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Karate Kill harkens back to a politically incorrect era of filmmaking filled with Oh-My-God moments. From writer/director Kurando Mitsutake, Karate Kill is...

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