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Age of ‘Compton’: N.W.A With Artificial Sweeteners
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Weekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘Compton’ Goes Straight Outta the Record...
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Side 1, Track 1: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and the Best First Songs Ever
This weekend, I paid to see Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray’s authorized biopic about pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. Two and a half hours later, I felt like I had been watching television —...
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‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Straight Outta Compton’
This week, Alex and Wesley discuss UnREAL and Mr. Robot, two smart shows they’re enjoying. Alex’s theory of what’s going on with the anarchists on Mr. Robot is the best he’s heard yet. Then it’s on to...
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‘Jalen and Jacoby’: ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ the Geno Smith Controversy, and...
Jalen Rose and David Jacoby talk about the new film Straight Outta Compton, the Geno Smith punch controversy, and much more....
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Weekend Box Office Winners & Losers: The Unstoppable ‘Compton’
We technically have until Labor Day, but you can already feel the heat abating, and if the weekend box office is any indicator, summer’s all but over in Tinseltown. It’s to be expected: The last couple...
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Weekend Box Office Winners & Losers: Zac Efron Has No Friends (to Save Him...
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The 2015 Grantland Summer Movie Awards
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Weekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘The Transporter’ Gets Thumped by ‘War...
And that’s a wrap, folks. Hollywood coasted to summer’s finish line with a predictably dull Labor Day weekend closing the cash-spigots on Tinseltown’s megabudget money fountains. By now those spigots...
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Straight Outta Compton, Here Comes the World’s Most Dangerous N.W.A Activity...
The N.W.A movie, Straight Outta Compton, FINALLY is in theaters today. Did you know N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton was the first album to go platinum without having been played on the radio? That’s a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Age of ‘Compton’: N.W.A With Artificial Sweeteners
How helpful of Straight Outta Compton to let us know where in South Los Angeles we are, and in which year, and the names of the various characters. We see a guy chilling, prone, on a carpet of LPs...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘Compton’ Goes Straight Outta the Record...
Just a week after flaming out at the hands of Reed Richards and the Human Torch, the box office came roaring back. Considering how deep into August we are — and no one projected this — the top 12 films...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Side 1, Track 1: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and the Best First Songs Ever
This weekend, I paid to see Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray’s authorized biopic about pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. Two and a half hours later, I felt like I had been watching television —...
View Article‘Do You Like Prince Movies?’ Podcast: ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Straight Outta Compton’
This week, Alex and Wesley discuss UnREAL and Mr. Robot, two smart shows they’re enjoying. Alex’s theory of what’s going on with the anarchists on Mr. Robot is the best he’s heard yet. Then it’s on to...
View Article‘Jalen and Jacoby’: ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ the Geno Smith Controversy, and...
Jalen Rose and David Jacoby talk about the new film Straight Outta Compton, the Geno Smith punch controversy, and much more....
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: The Unstoppable ‘Compton’
We technically have until Labor Day, but you can already feel the heat abating, and if the weekend box office is any indicator, summer’s all but over in Tinseltown. It’s to be expected: The last couple...
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Is it really still summer? Yes, although you couldn’t tell from the domestic box office, which totaled a measly $86 million, the lowest-grossing weekend of the year. It’s finally over, but August has...
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The 2015 Grantland Summer Movie Awards
Summer movie season comes to a close this Labor Day weekend. We’ve been through a lot this year, with more sequels, remakes, reboots, and adaptations than ever before. In this season of excess, it’s...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Winners & Losers: ‘The Transporter’ Gets Thumped by ‘War...
And that’s a wrap, folks. Hollywood coasted to summer’s finish line with a predictably dull Labor Day weekend closing the cash-spigots on Tinseltown’s megabudget money fountains. By now those spigots...
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