STYLE WARS (1982)
NEW YORK CITY, 1982, The war is on between graffiti artists known as “taggers”, “bombers”, “burners” and the police on the streets of the city. The inner city subways have become a moving canvas for...
View ArticleSetting Fire To The Sun: Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing
With spring-summer approaching, I’ve been recently thinking about the many movies that take place in that warm time of the year. After going over the titles I could cover, I realized it would be a...
View ArticleFURIOUS SOUNDS: 10 Mad As Hell Hip Hop Trax
In the 1980s Hip Hop became the biggest underground musical movement to explode out of the inner cities. It was a multimedia based culture which included artistic entertainment/expression such as...
View ArticleFURIOUS CLASSICS: Wild Style 30th Anniversary
In 1983 Director Charlie Ahearn brought the inner city world of hip hop, which was then a new art form, to the big screen with his urban drama WILD STYLE. Since that time it has become a cult classic...
View ArticleREEL FURY: A hip hop explosion comes STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
REEL FURY is an ongoing series of brief commentaries on new and old trailers for films and TV. “What’s NWA stand for, anyway? “No... The post REEL FURY: A hip hop explosion comes STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON...
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