Movie Review

You Can’t Stop the Truth: The Story of the Original Founding Members of the Sugarhill Gang

February 21, 2012

By Francesca D’Amico When The Sugarhill Gang wrote and recorded “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979, little did they know that this single-take recording would serve as a template for establishing an audience and market for Hip Hop, and would also mark the beginning of their thirty year-long battle with contractual turmoil. This story is not new [...]

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Inside Job: Where is the Outrage?

June 14, 2011

A review of the documentary Inside Job, along with some relections on the lack of popular outrage in North America over current economic events.

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“You’re gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride”: Movie Review of Five on the Black Hand Side

May 25, 2011

A review of the Blaxploitation film Five on the Black Hand Side.

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Stories of Exile: Movie Review of “The Queen and I”

April 13, 2011

The Queen and I (2008), directed and produced by Swedish-Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani, follows the former Empress of Iran, Farah Pahlavi and Sarvestani as they discuss their lives following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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Movie Review: “Swedes and Scots and Sadists…Oh My”

March 30, 2011

This past weekend I watched two movies that were seemingly more different than any two movies could be. They did have things in common though. Both films were intriguing and entertaining in their own way and at their heart is a similar theme: reclaiming and uncovering the “true” past.

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