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5 days ago |
collider.com | Andre Joseph
In 1977, Richard Pryor was on top of the world. His revolutionary brand of racy, provocative stand-up comedy resonated with black audiences in the post-Civil Rights Movement era while making serious cash for record companies and Hollywood film studios. Following his breakout role as Gene Wilder’s unlikely ally in the comedy-thriller Silver Streak, Pryor was ready to headline his first major motion picture with the biopic Greased Lightning.
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5 days ago |
collider.com | Andre Joseph
French action filmmaker/producer Luc Besson has spent decades creating strong women in gritty revenge tales. With such hits as La Femme Nikita, Lucy, and Anna, he would take women from tragic circumstances and transform them into beautiful loners with a killer instinct. While those films were presented with surrealistic elements of action, the 2011 revenge thriller Colombiana aimed for something far more grounded and brutal.
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6 days ago |
collider.com | Andre Joseph
I was a child in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s who watched most movies on HBO regardless of the rating. Many cinematic gems shaped my perception of what the world would be like once the days of going to school to pass a bunch of exams were over. I held the belief that what brought me joy as a small kid would carry me into adulthood. St. Elmo’s Fire exemplified such a thought upon my first viewing on cable and evolved into something else over time.
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6 days ago |
collider.com | Andre Joseph
The late ‘90s and early ‘2000s were flooded with a wave of teen rom-coms in Hollywood. While some movies like Can’t Hardly Wait and She’s All That were successful staples of the era, many imitators failed to deliver anything original. 2000’s Whatever it Takes falls into the latter category of not being the era’s finest hour.
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6 days ago |
collider.com | Andre Joseph
During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen defied incredible odds in aerial combat against the Axis powers and in overcoming the limitations of Jim Crow laws within the military. Their accomplishments in the war were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and are worth having their stories retold through projects such as Masters of the Air. But George Lucas aimed and fell short of giving America’s heroes the epic cinematic treatment in 2012’s Red Tails.
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