Rap Movie Reviews

Release Date: January 13, 2023 Production Companies: Warner Bros./New Line Cinema/SpringHill Company First and foremost, I must start by saying that I do not have anything against movie remakes. Many movie fans (or at least, the very vocal minority on social media) tend to get angry, and I mean angry when a remake (even if […]

Release Date: July 23, 2013 Production Companies: Warner Premiere/Film Afrika Worldwide/Market Street Productions/Elephant Walk McHenry Productions It must be said. I never thought I would say this, but I think maybe “House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute” may have been a superior film to this one. As much as I wanted to believe […]

Release Date: August 14, 2001 Production Companies: New Line Cinema/Ultimate Group Films *Sigh* Why did I put myself through this? Because I am a completionist, that’s why. Before I go any further, let me remind you that I took a break from my “House Party” marathon, which also included “Class Act,” but it was for […]

Release Date: June 5, 1992 Distributor: Warner Bros. Production Companies: de Passe Entertainment When I did my review on “House Party 3,” I noted that I went back and forth on doing that one and this film. Why? There are a number of reasons. I had wanted to touch on this one for a while, […]

Release Date: January 12, 1994 Production Company: New Line Cinema For my review on the first film, click here. For my review on the second film, click here. This was tough. I will admit it. It was tough to… decide on which film I wanted to touch as it was a toss-up between this and […]

Release Date: October 23, 1991 Production Companies: New Line Cinema For my review on the first film, click here. When it comes to comedy sequels, some can be hits, and some can be misses. In this case, I can see that I recall liking this when it would come on USA a lot back in […]

Release Date: March 9, 1990 Production Companies: New Line Cinema It had been a while since my last post. With this movie reaching its 35th anniversary, I thought it was time to touch on this, along with the series in general. However, I may add in “Class Act” in the mix because this may be […]

Release Dates: 8 Mile – November 6, 2002 Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – November 9, 2005 Production Companies: 8 Mile – Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment Get Rich or Die Tryin’ – Paramount Pictures, along with Interscope/Shady/Aftermath Films and MTV Films It’s been a long time coming. I had told myself to do this in the […]

Release Date: January 16, 2009 Production Companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures (Later known as Searchlight Pictures after Disney acquisition)/Bad Boy Films/By Storm Films/State Street Pictures/Voletta Wallace Films Wow. It had been quite some time since I had last seen this. I recall seeing this on opening weekend at the start of 2009. So it’s been a […]

Release Date: June 16, 2017 Production Companies: Summit Entertainment (In association with Lionsgate Films)/Morgan Creek Productions/Program Pictures/Codeblack Films For my original review on this film, click here. I knew it would come to this. After doing my series on Tupac’s films, there was this itch that made me do this… again. I’ll be blunt – […]

Release Date: October 8, 1997 Production Companies: Orion Pictures It has come to this. I had covered all of Tupac’s other films, such as “Juice,” “Poetic Justice,” “Above the Rim,” “Bullet,” and “Gridlock’d.” So this had been quite a project for me. What separates this film from the others was that this was the first […]

Release Date: January 29, 1997 Production Companies: Polygram Filmed Entertainment/Interscope Communications Over the years, I had done done some research on the career of Tupac. When I was a kid, I remember seeing that he had new albums being released after his death. I had read that he had recorded a lot of music prior […]

Release Date: October 1, 1996 Production Company: New Line Cinema/Village Roadshow Pictures/Clipsal Films When looking at Tupac’s filmography, I know people would often think of “Juice,” “Poetic Justice,” “Above the Rim,” and then you have two that came out after his death, “Gridlock’d” and “Gang Related.” However, there is one that not a lot of […]

Release Date: March 23, 1994 Production Companies: New Line Cinema (later acquired by Warner Media) and Medina/Pollack Entertainment Here I am with another review/retrospective for my Tupac Shakur marathon. It’s weird to think that while Tupac was alive, he only did six films (not counting “Nothing But Trouble”) and I wonder if he would have […]

Release Date: July 23, 1993 Production Companies: Columbia Pictures, along with A New Deal/Nickel Here is the second part of my Tupac Shakur movie marathon. What’s weird is that this coincided with some news about a lead involving Tupac’s unsolved murder and that I am doing this a few days shy of this film’s 30th […]

Release Date: January 17, 1992 Production Companies: Paramount Pictures/Island World/Moritz-Heyman (later known as Original Film) Hello, everyone. I am starting a different series at the moment. I am not done with the other one involving “The Hip-Hop Martial Arts Trilogy” that I did before where the next step was to cover the soundtrack albums. I […]

Release Date: February 28, 2003 Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures/Silver Pictures Review of “Romeo Must Die” Review of “Exit Wounds” Here I am in the last part of covering the films of this unofficial trilogy. While I am not done completely with this series, even though I am having different ideas for the soundtrack album […]

Release Date: March 16, 2001 Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures/NPV Entertainment/Silver Pictures Review on “Romeo Must Die” Here I am in Part II of my series of reviews related to what I like to think of as “The Hip-Hop Martial Arts Trilogy of the early-2000s.” While I am aware that there are other […]

Release Date: March 22, 2000 Production Companies: Warner Bros./Silver Pictures It must be said. It’s been a long time coming that I was going to cover this film, along with two other films, and other things that are related. In fact, I wanted to do this a long time ago but other things happened. In […]

Year of Release: 1998 Production Companies: New Line Cinema/Cubevision Productions It’s been kind of a long time coming, but I decided that it was time for me to finally see this. Not that I didn’t have chances before, nor did I not see any bits and pieces of this movie before watching it in full […]