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8 Mile (2002)

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For Your Consideration: 5 Alter ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"The Academy’s list of 49 tunes deemed eligible for the Best Original Song Oscar this year seems like a lot for the Music Branch to pick through. That is, until you notice that more than one-fifth of those contenders are from the same film (High School Musical 3, which, thanks to a new rule, is only allowed, at most, two nominations in this category) and you recall that last year’s list included many more songs (59) to choose from. The talent involved this year, however, is tremendous, at least in terms of those performers who sing the tunes on the soundtrack (many of whom had a hand in the songwriting). These artists include Mariah Carey, Etta James, Beyonce Knowles (who played Etta James), Norah Jones, will.i.am, Jack White and Alicia Keys, Danny Elfman, Emmylou Harris, Chaka Khan and Regina Spektor. Add to those big names su " [More]

SXSW Preview: Nerdcore Rising
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"An administrivia note: we still have a couple of SXSW previews to push out over the next two days, but starting this afternoon we’re going to start posting full-fledged reviews of films in advance of the festival’s opening on Friday. Make sure to check our SXSW 2008 category for all the goodies. Now, for today’s preview. Probably the only documentary in recent memory featuring appearances from both Weird Al Yankovich and Jello Biafra, Nerdcore Rising (premiering at SXSW on Sunday as part of the 24 Beats Per Minute program) delves into a subgenre of hip hop that’s all about nerdery. The trailer for the doc can be found above, and director Negin Farsad answers the 4 Questions We’re Asking Everyone below. Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out. [More]

SXSW Preview: Nerdcore Rising
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White Men Can't Jump...But They ...
by smoothjazzandmore in smoothjazzandmore Blog

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"Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. Eminem, gives a rather humbling performance as Jimmy "Bunny Rabbit" Smith, Jr.; a wanna-be rapper with problems bigger than what we can imagine. He's down on his luck and has to move back home to his mom's house. Couple that with the fact that he has a fear of rejection. In more ways than one, his problems are our problems we face in everyday life. This makes the movie smart and easy to manufacture. It's not the best film, but it does entertain as well as tell an effective story about challenges and courage. " [More]

8 Mile
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"Eminem has apparently learned to turn his experience with the train wreck that is Mariah Carey to his advantage. She became a source of lyrics for two songs on his latest LP, The Eminem Show (on which he implies that he'd rather, say, start recording Diane Warren songs than return to his former flame). And "Lose Yourself," the sopping-the-airwaves single from Eminem's film debut, 8 Mile, talks of an artist whose "bosses don't want him no more, he's cold product...he nose-dove and sold nada"--which was exactly Carey's fate soon after the release of her own exhaustion-inducing, semiautobiographical joke of a movie, Glitter. (Of course, given that Carey got $28 million from her label to just go away, the joke is clearly on everyone else.) And Eminem does Glitter one better with 8 Mile. Though both are loose retellings of the entertainers' lives, Mariah's yay-me mess was a rags-to-riches story involving horrible actors and an unbelievably quick shot to star ... " [More]

It's hard out here
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"Though they almost could've used the same theme song, Hustle & Flow is a far better than 8 Mile. Hustle & Flow is more real and more tragic, making it a lot more memorable.Terrence Howard is the kind of actor who has the ability to evoke several competing emotions in a sidewise glance. I love a film that capitalizes on such talent, as this one requires. Beside the more obviously hip 70's title sequence, catchy hooks, and hip-hop storyline of a pimp trying to make it big, what I like most about this film is its depiction of the creative process. The truth in people creating art from all walks of life in their living rooms, drawing from personal experience and as Howard's character, Djay puts it, that every man has to tell his story. I love that the song they create is an assemblage that crosses boundaries and is equal parts ego, angst, and happenstance. Even though it's hard out here, that this truth previals makes Hustle & Flow an optimistic film which ... " [More]

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