The Good:• The winners mostly deserved their awards. -Jeff Bridges was the sentimental choice, and basically won for all the times he was snubbed, but I’m ...
Read more »The kids over at The AV Club have hyped us all to a very annoying archetype in film known as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG). This stereotypical character appears in over a dozen movies, from Annie ...
Read more »Second bananas are the unsung heroes of art, whether it be film, books, television or music. They provide a much needed boost to the action, they take pressure off the leading actor or performer, ...
Read more »Dashing Fellows friend Thea Lim at Racialicious posted this list of The 50 Most Racist Movies You Didn’t Know Were Racist, compiled by Complex. There are some obvious ones like The Love Guru ( ...
Read more »The first few years of college are a transformative period in every young person’s life. It’s there we’re exposed to thousands of people roughly the same age as us, all having ...
Read more »"Takin' a life or twoThat's what the hell I do, You don't like how I'm livin well fuck you!” - N.W.A. ("Gangsta Gangsta") The best scene in The Godfather isn’t when Jack Woltz finds ...
Read more »The AV Club has reviewed two books about hip hop that involve Nas in some scandalous way. The first is Carmen Bryan's bio, It's No Secret, which chronicles her affair with Nas, as well as Jay-Z ...
Read more »A BBC broadcaster confessed to killing his lover on a documentary for BBC One’s Inside Out East Midland’s program on euthanasia, which aired February 15. The confession had been taped in ...
Read more »I’ll admit I’m a bit of closet fan of romantic comedies. I don’t go out to watch all of them, and I’ll avoid a host of them if I can, but a rom-com, properly made and with ...
Read more »Forget the Colts and the Saints. If I want to watch a true smackdown, I'm going to watch this full-length, unedited tet-a-tet of Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor. ...
Read more »"Poignant analysis of one of my favourite movies of all time. Full marks!"
Kai"i doubt there's a causal relationship between porn and rape... but i think a society that tolerates more liberal attitudes towards sex (and porn) would be much less stifling, and likely to create an environment that will create people to act in a ..."
avp."And there is some pretty sick porn out there with overt violence against women. Even the mainstream stuff has a very male-dominants-a female object vibe. But I don't know if that necessarily translates into misogynistic attitudes. I watch violence on TV ..."
Aman"I am definitely not a fan of exclusion either. I think the Internet has sped up the sharing of culture and language (slang) so much that it's only natural that other people would get genuinely interested in facets of black culture. Granted you always run ..."
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"For real, I remember being very affected by this movie. I was around 15 at the time, so I definitely could relate to Agee and Gates... Time for a re-watch I think"
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