Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "hip hop"

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Marci X ** (2003, Lisa Kudrow, Damon Wayans, Richard Benjamin, Christine Baranski) – Classic Movie Review 7668

‘Hip Hop Meets Shop Till You Drop.’ Director Richard Benjamin’s 2003 music comedy Marci X stars Lisa Kudrow as Jewish-American woman Marci Feld, who falls for controversial rapper Dr S (Damon Wayans), but the provocative […]

Oct, 15

Honey *** (2003, Jessica Alba, David Moscow, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 5651

Jessica Alba fresh from the 2000-2002 TV series Dark Angel is a peach as Honey Daniels, a sexy and feisty young dance instructor who starts a hip-hop class for ghetto kids. She is star spotted […]

Jun, 21

Straight Outta Compton *** (2015, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr, Aldis Hodge) – Movie Review

Director F Gary Gray’s biopic of mid/late-Eighties rap pioneers NWA from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles merges the expected anger, guns and violence with much, less predictable, humour and sentimentality, making for a complex, informative and […]

Aug, 26

Bulworth ** (1998, Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 2014

Warren Beatty tries very hard, both as producer-writer-director and star, but seems to have lost his touch in this offbeat 1998 satirical comedy drama. He plays, quite well, suicidally disillusioned liberal senator Jay Bulworth, who […]

Dec, 29

Save the Last Dance *** (2001, Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1564

Director Thomas Carter’s 2001 romantic drama stars Julia Stiles as Sara, a troubled US Midwestern white teenager who moves to Chicago after the death of her mother. Saramoves in with her estranged father, who lives in […]

Aug, 18

Step Up 5: All In **½ (2014, Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan, Adam G Sevani, Alyson Stoner) – Movie Review

So, as the title suggests, the idea here is that all the stars from the previous Step Up instalments come together (apart from original star Channing Tatum of course) in a Las Vegas-set dance extravaganza. That’s the good […]

Jul, 30

Human Traffic **** (1999, John Simm, Justin Kerrigan, Danny Dyer) – Classic Movie Review 686

The 25-year-old Welshman Justin Kerrigan’s notable, eye-catching writer-director debut in 1999 looked like an industry calling card, but he didn’t make another movie till 2008’s I Know You Know. John Simm stars and gives a […]

Jan, 14

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