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Awesome Art Celebrates Black History Month with Black Panther, Boyz In The Hood, Get Out, Jackie Brown, Moonlight, Sinners

Posted 4 months ago

Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted...

The What Happened to This Horror Movie series looks back at the 1988 St. Patrick's Day slasher Maniac Cop, starring Bruce Campbell

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Maniac Cop (1988) – What Happened to This Horror Movie?

Posted 1 year ago

The What Happened to This Horror Movie series looks back at the 1988 St. Patrick's Day slasher Maniac Cop, starring Bruce Campbell

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Interview: June Squibb and Fred Hechinger Talk Thelma

Posted 2 years ago

We have a delightful chat with the wonderful twosome, June Squibb and Fred Hechinger about their latest, Thelma

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Richard Roundtree, beloved star of Shaft, dead at 81

Posted 3 years ago

Richard Roundtree, the legendary star of Shaft, is dead at 81 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Theodore Rex: Awfully Good Movies

Posted 4 years ago

With Jurassic World: Dominion hitting digital video this week after another big box office haul for the franchise, Awfully Good Movies is excavating a dinosaur movie far sillier than anything Colin Trevorrow could cook up, with Whoopi Goldberg and her...

WTF Happened to Christina Ricci?

Posted 5 years ago

WTF Happened To This Celebrity? – The JoBlo series that examines the careers of our favourite stars and filmmakers who may have temporarily fallen out of the spotlight, and reveals where they are now and what they're up to! After...

The UnPopular Opinion: Speed Racer

Posted 6 years ago

Alex Welcome back to The UnPopular Opinion! The UnPopular Opinion features different takes on films that either I hated, but that the majority of film fans loved or vice versa. We have always hoped this column will promote constructive and geek fueled discussion. Now, with...

HBO picks up Maniac Cop series from Nicolas Winding Refn

Posted 7 years ago

After delivering his series TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG this year, filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE) is jumping back into another series, this time a reimagining of the 1988 cult classic movie, MANIAC COP. The series has been given the...

Ex: We talk Shaft with Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree and more!

Posted 7 years ago

Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? SHAFT! Now that that is (necessarily) out of the way, we're talkin' about SHAFT with the cast and director of the new reboot. Hard to believe, SHAFT came...

The new Red Band trailer for Shaft is a bad mother (shut your mouth)

Posted 7 years ago

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft) You're damn right! New Line Cinema has let a mean Red Band trailer for SHAFT out onto the streets, which comes complete with expletives galore, courtesy...

Review: What Men Want

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A business woman awakens one morning to find herself endowed with the ability to hear men's thoughts. REVIEW: The Hollywood gender swap is a cinematic scenario which is equal parts frustrating and gratifying. Of course, it's always exciting to see a female...

First Shaft trailer brings all three generations together for the action

Posted 7 years ago

Who’s the man with a new movie that just got a badass new trailer? Shaft! You’re damn right. Oh yes, ladies and gentlemen, the very first trailer for the new SHAFT movie is here to get you in the mood...

First poster for Shaft promises more you know what than you can handle

Posted 7 years ago

There have been three films going by the title of SHAFT over the decades; 1971's SHAFT starring Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, 2000's SHAFT starring Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft II, nephew of John Shaft, and 2019's SHAFT, which...

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