Posts Tagged ‘a Tribe Called Quest’
Film Review – Rye Lane
Raine Allen Miller’s feature length directorial debut, Rye Lane (2023) is an exuberant romantic comedy. Along with writers Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, Miller creates a portrait of two twenty-somethings that feels like a throwback and a modern update at the same time. There are odes to the past, with…
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Film Review – Tom and Jerry
I am of the firm belief that to appreciate great films, one must watch and appreciate the bad ones. It’s a delicate balancing act – how can one truly understand what makes a movie good without understanding what makes them terrible? Admittedly, this a bit…
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Film Review – Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s feature length debut as writer and director – Mid90s (2018) – has a great affection for the timeframe it’s set in. As the title suggests, Hill takes us back to Los Angeles in the middle of the 1990s, amongst the youth that spends…
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Film Review – Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
We open in 2008, in Seattle. A Tribe Called Quest, the influential and highly respected hip-hop group, may have played their very last show. In a small, cramped trailer, one of its members pace saround as the camera nervously follows to see what he’s going…
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