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Ice Cube, 50 Cent Among Honorees At Bet Hip Hop Awards

23 October 2009 6:59 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

The career highlights of Ice Cube are about to get a little cooler.

The 2009 Bet Hip Hop Awards ceremony is scheduled to air October 27. Taped at Atlanta venue Boisfeuillet Jones Civic Center with host Mike Epps, the show is one of the biggest nights for the musical genre, featuring multiple performances by artists like Jay-z, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris, among others.

Among this year's distinctions is the acknowledgement of gangsta rap pioneer Ice Cube, who received the "I Am Hip Hop" Icon Award. Aside from being one of the founding members of N.W.A., the musical artist has completed eight high-selling solo albums and has made a successful career in the film industry in multiple capacities. Starring in movies ranging from "Boyz N the Hood" to "Three Kings" to "Are We There Yet?" to "XXX: State of the Union," Ice Cube has also worked as a screenwriter ("Friday" series), producer ("All About the Benjamins, »

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Ice Cube, 50 Cent Among Honorees At Bet Hip Hop Awards

23 October 2009 6:59 AM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

The career highlights of Ice Cube are about to get a little cooler.

The 2009 Bet Hip Hop Awards ceremony is scheduled to air October 27. Taped at Atlanta venue Boisfeuillet Jones Civic Center with host Mike Epps, the show is one of the biggest nights for the musical genre, featuring multiple performances by artists like Jay-z, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris, among others.

Among this year's distinctions is the acknowledgement of gangsta rap pioneer Ice Cube, who received the "I Am Hip Hop" Icon Award. Aside from being one of the founding members of N.W.A., the musical artist has completed eight high-selling solo albums and has made a successful career in the film industry in multiple capacities. Starring in movies ranging from "Boyz N the Hood" to "Three Kings" to "Are We There Yet?" to "XXX: State of the Union," Ice Cube has also worked as a screenwriter ("Friday" series), producer ("All About the Benjamins, »

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Review: Did You Ever See… Swingers?

8 October 2009 10:04 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Couples Retreat is released this week. Once again Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn re-team, this time in a comedy about four couples who attend a therapeutic couples retreat, little knowing they’ll be expected to put their relationships under the microscope.

Vaughan and Favreau have worked together in several films, most notably in Favreau’s self-penned Swingers in 1996. Directed by Doug Liman, it’s a hip, trendy comedy with cool, likeable characters and endlessly quotable lines. Or is it?

When i first saw Swingers over 10 years ago, i loved it. I loved the snappy dialogue and the laid back attitude of the characters, as they hit the best nightspots and hot parties. My experience re-watching it this week was entirely different.

Mike (Favreau) is a comedian slash actor, who has been in La for sixth months since his girlfriend left him. Mike is really the main character. Now, usually, the main character is likeable, »

- Barry Steele

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DVD Of The Week: Next Day Air

15 September 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

Next Day Air

Directed by Benny Boom

2009, 84 minutes, USA

Summit Entertainment Scott Sanders' Black Dynamite (opening theatrically in the U.S. next month) meticulously spoofs the blaxploitation genre and all its pimps, dope pushers, martial artistry, noticeable boom mics, and funky bow-chicka-wowness, but while co-creator and star Michael Jai White's muscular comic charisma impresses, the film itself does not. The problem is that blaxploitation—unlike science-fiction, horror movies, and strangely for this argument, westerns—is so anchored to the music and mood of the grindhouse era that there's little place for reverent homage in 2009. That Black Dynamite deadpans like it came straight outta 1972 without addressing the flashback through contemporary hindsight, nor at any other time strives for the over-the-top giddiness of its climactic nunchaku showdown against Richard Nixon, underscores its irrelevance. We're better off watching Truck Turner again and appreciating that this kind of filmmaking back then was the real deal, »

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Ten Directors Share Fond Memories of the Lacma

3 September 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

James Gray (Two Lovers) remembers going to see Walter Murch talking about his groundbreaking sound and editing work on The Conversation. John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) remembers seeing the original King Kong, a "life-changing experience." Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) remembers seeing an obscure Bette Davis movie with a packed house. Rian Johnson (Brick) one time just simply walked in without even knowing what was playing (it turned out to be Fellini's And the Ship Sails On). Those four, plus six other directors, shared their feelings with the Los Angeles Times on the uncertain fate of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and especially its beloved Bing Theater.

But some of the others aren't in the mood for reminiscing. John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) says, "seeing a film like How Green Was My Valley and Duel in the Sun on the wide screen is a whole other thing. »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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'V' Is Coming Back To TV, Now With Less Fascism

27 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

by Ryan J. Downey

The folks behind the re-imagining of "V" know they have their work cut out for them. Hitting the right notes with a new show based on an "event" sci-fi series that captured the country's imagination in the 1980s won't be as easy as showing a few actors swallowing furry guinea pigs or revealing their hidden scaly green skin.

In the pilot for the reboot of the sci-fi series about carnivorous reptilian aliens posing as benevolent "Visitors," screened for a mixture of excited and skeptical fans last week at San Diego Comic-Con, a teenager derides Roland Emmerich's "Independence Day" as a rip-off of earlier (and better) alien invasion movies as he and a pal watch a mothership descend above their city. It's an overt nod to the faithful who were glued to their televisions through two stellar mini-series (1983's "V" and the following year's "V: The Final Battle") and a short-lived, »

- MTV Movies Team

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It’s Game Time For The A-Team

2 July 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Joe Carnahan's A-Team has been gearing up for it's August shoot by assembling the cast in the last few weeks. We already have Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper, but we may now know who's not gonna be gettin' on that damn plane. Fool. The guys at BlackFilm are saying that they have a 'highly reliable' source that points toward rapper turned actor The Game (Jayceon Taylor to his mother). B.A. Baracus was always going to be the hardest part to fill, Mr. T was the most iconic image of the series, so whoever takes the role will inevitably get some flak. Common was originally in the frame but as he's filming Just Right with Queen Latifah he seems to be out of contention. Ironically we saw The Game and Common together last year in Street Kings, in which Common was strong and The Game was. . . forgettable. He does seem to have the attitude in place »

- David Baxter

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L.A. gang thriller Baby: Review

19 February 2009 12:59 AM, PST | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »

Director: Juwan Chung. Review Adam Wing. With his second feature Juwan Chung (Cake) paints a tragic tale of Asian youths caught up in South East Los Angeles gang life during the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Critics have compared the film to Boyz N The Hood, high praise indeed, and the film seems to have justified that tag by picking up numerous awards including New Director/New Visions Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. David Huynh stars as the Baby of the title but don’t worry, identical in name alone, if this particular Baby gets put in the corner he’ll probably come out blasting. You won’t want to be calling him Frances either. »

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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 1997

8 articles from 2009

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