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...lengthy relationship with fiery rapper Lil’ Kim (Naturi Naughton) and subsequently married agreeable R&B singer Faith Evans (Antonique Smith). Both actresses do a decent job of playing archetypal strong women, but the characters never evolve. Same goes for Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie) as a jive-talking cipher and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), who isn’t puffy so much as a plain, humorless sidekick. George Tillman, Jr. directs “Notorious” like it’s a boilerplate rap music video: there’s technique and bling to burn, but the whole...
...martial law. The prospect of police officers prowling the tailgate grounds will leave little room for gregariousness and glee. The mood that these officers will set—intentionally or not—will inevitably be one of grim law and order—a concept does not jive with the camaraderie of football in any way, even on the gridiron itself.Students understand the motives for these new restrictions. The Harvard-Yale tailgate in 2004 is best remembered as a “10,000-person bacchanalia with some students ‘doing anything and everything?...
...making my fingers itch to try out that line on my Gibson SG air guitar. “Smash and Grab” is another favorite, with a particularly strong and moving rhythm section, not to mention the sick guitar solo just before the end. Man, can Angus still jive and wail. But the most surprising song is “Anything Goes,” which is more of an exploration into the world of pop-rock than anything else I’ve heard from AC/DC. It resembles a song more likely to come from Van Halen...
...pretty younger sister. They hoed and sowed all day, every day, to feed their bellies, save money for the sister's dowry and earn enough for new clothes once a year. But implacable Fate played tricks on them. Usurious moneylenders fleeced the farmer of his land and house. A jive-talking soldier ravished the virginal sister. Destitute and socially shunned, the family fled their home village...
...have the comedic chops of his compatriots.As for the humor, Apatow and friends take shot after ever-cheaper shot at the Cash mystique. When the jokes hit, they’re usually propelled by the shock of sheer absurdity: Cox manages to accidentally exterminate his entire family, and spits jive and sings “Love Your Negro Man” when asked to play at an R&B club. When the jokes miss, they never miss big. Consequently, the movie is consistently dumb, though not consistently funny.“Walk Hard” gives the biopic genre...