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...than Roseanne's version.) But Mitchell has little interest in being the avatar of '70s porn directors. His structuring of the material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, and even the sex scenes have the geometrical elegance and absurdity of classic movie production numbers, making Mitchell a porno Busby Berkeley. When the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about playing “a controversial Negro,” a “servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube’s offer to go watch the 1973 blaxploitation classic “‘Black Caesar’ back at the crib.” In his verse, Kane extols Spike Lee as a model of how the black community can “make our own movies,” instead of being reduced to playing...
...their new video “When You Were Young,” Las Vegas quartet The Killers reincarnate the classic music video melodrama of boy meets, cheats on, and loses girl. This time however, grainy, sepia-toned footage tells us we’re in Mexico. The familiar saga gets a Tijuana re-telling: sweaty, mustached older greaseball takes advantage of 14-year-old future nun, sleeps with some other chick in a tube top, then somehow convinces no-longer-virginal schoolgirl to…come and work in his bar? The formerly clean-cut Killers have all donned...
...finest American directors of the 20th century, but his last two efforts—the lackluster passion project “Gangs of New York” and the good-but-not-great “The Aviator”—lacked the movie magic of his classics “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas.” But now, with the explosive “Departed,” Scorsese delivers a film nothing short of a masterpiece in modern storytelling.Irish-American crime lord Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson, plants...
...sleeve by cohosting a spelling bee (creatively dubbed “the bee”) with the Brattle Theatre and Houghton Mifflin Company. Looking for an ego boost? The “All-Ages Bee” (read: little kids) starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the classic film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” At 9:30 things get adult when the grown-up competition begins, complete with a beer and five syllable words...