Epinions Recent Reviews for azbrotha

Say Wha?!? A Unauthorized, Un-Bruckheimerized Summer Action Movie? This I Gotta See!

Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:23:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - The summer blockbuster was born with the classic, JAWS and has slowly de-evovled to the point where...

Drumline: DRUMMING TO A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT BEAT

Sun, 15 Dec 2002 22:59:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Ahh, another Black Hollywood film, excuse me while I sneer. I think that Black Hollywood, for the most part, are a collective bunch of self-serving bastards, more concerned with getting paid instead of telling good stories. Their idea of "keepin' it...

PARALLEL SYMBOLISM

Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:52:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - When the week of September 10th started for me, I was just beginning a long awaited vacation. I had plans. I was going get some writing in and I was going to go up to Vegas for a couple of days, taking full advantage of the 45 minute airplane flight from...

DESTINY'S HYPE

Tue, 5 Jun 2001 18:35:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Everyone who knows me knows at least one thing about me for certain; I NEVER believe the hype. I ALWAYS question just about EVERYTHING. In short, I am one grumpy, cynical jerk. And I never thought that I would give in to anybody when it came to...

2K1 R&B That Even Your Daddy Will Like

Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:27:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha -

After I heard the first single, I AM YOUR WOMAN, from Syleena Johnson's first major record label CD, CHAPTER 1: LOVE, PAIN & FORGIVENESS, a song that has the feel as if R. Kelly (doing the obligatory SUPER PRODUCER GUEST CAMEO...

DON'T LET THE MOVIE FOOL YOU...

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:33:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - I knew when I saw the trailers for the movie, THE LADIES MAN, that I wanted no part of that mess. Anybody with have an ounce of sense would have known to avoid that partial birth abortion of a movie. And judging by the nationwide sudden rise of blunt...

GUERRILLAS IN THE MIDST

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:31:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Let's see…

A movie about the nearly obscure Civil War pro Southern guerrilla movement against the Union army around the Kansas-Missouri border (think PLATOON from the Viet Cong P.O.V., Civil War style) directed by a guy from Taiwan (Ang Lee)...

NO SHUCKIN' AND JIVIN' HERE(WELL, NOT MUCH ANYWAY)

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 05:11:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - One can only wonder about Spike Lee’s motives at times. In a recent NEWSWEEK article, Lee says, “My people have to wake up and realize what’s going on and our responsibility in it.” Okay, fair enough. Then he is critical of those who he feels...

A PUBLIC THRASHING--A review of BOSTON PUBLIC

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:25:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Writer/Producer David E. Kelley (THE PRACTICE, ALLY MCBEAL, PICKET FENCES just to name a few of his better known series) has brought us some of television’s most compelling moments. I have been a faithful follower of Kelley programming dating back to...

BORE IN THA HOOD

Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:50:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - THE BREAKS, puts a Sunday in the life of one Derrick King (Mitch Mullany, a slightly bigger Vanilla Ice clone) under the microscope. Oh, what a Sunday it is for him and his child-hood friend, Chris (Carl Anthony Payne). Moms (Loretta Devine)...

HAPPY EVER AFTER?--a review of NIKKI

Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:38:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Dwight (Nick von Esmarch) is your typical Momma’s boy. He wants to be a professional wrestler but his mother (Christine Estabrook) feels that Dwight should become a corporate tax lawyer instead and so Dwight is headed for California to pursue his...

KIMBLE'S IN FIRST, GERARD CLOSE BEHIND--THE FUGITIVE review

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:20:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - There is no way to begin a review of the newest revival of THE FUGITIVE without first mentioning the original which was, erroneously, believed to be based on the real life case of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Me, personally, I always thought that it was a...

WELL SHE AIN'T MARY TYLER MOORE--A review of FOXs DARK ANGEL

Thu, 5 Oct 2000 00:54:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - The year is 2019 and from the looks of things, the United States could use a good hot shower. No, wait a sec. I see the Space Needle. That explains things then. 2019 Seattle is in the midst of a grunge revival and has gone WAYYYYYYYYYYY overboard...

DEADLINE IS A FLATLINE--A review of the NBC series DEADLINE

Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:05:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Message to Dick Wolf.

Okay Dick, you can stop creating television shows now. Please. Outside of LAW & ORDER, the spin off show, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT and NEW YORK UNDERCOVER, when was the last time any show that you...

YOU GO GIRL--A review of the new CBS show THAT'S LIFE

Mon, 2 Oct 2000 02:31:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Up until the moment that she decided that she wanted something for herself, Lydia DeLucca was pretty much doing what was expected of her. Working non stop since her high school graduation, getting engaged to her high school sweetheart, waiting patiently...

I'd like to see RICHARD HATCH, Survive CUBE for a day

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 05:25:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - It is said that a person never truly knows what they are capable of until they are faced with the ultimate choice, Life or Death. This is the ultimate of many choices that face those who enter CUBE.

The premise of CUBE is blunt. A...

Destiny's Child: Destiny's Child/INDEPENDENT WOMEN PART 1...oh the irony

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:19:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - When I first heard about this single, my first thought was, "oh great, another addition to the BILLS, BILLS, BILLS, NO SCRUBS, TRIFLIN' trilogy of one sided, man-bashing songs that stunk up the place a while back. Then I found out that it...

NATHAN, MICHAEL, SHAWN, WAYNA...ask for them by name!

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 01:50:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - BOYZ II MEN was one of the most popular (and successful) R&B/crossover Pop groups in history. When you looked up R&B in the 90s, there was a good chance that you found BIIM representing. But by ’97, and their last CD of the decade,...

DAWSON'S GRIDIRON

Mon, 18 Sep 2000 02:23:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - In the numerous communities that make up Small Town America, there isn't much going on. At times life there can be slow, dull, painfully monotonous, and quiet...sometimes all at once. In Small Town America when something does happen, and only then,...

Boyz II Men: PASS YOU BY, The Latest & Greatest From BOYZ II MEN

Wed, 6 Sep 2000 02:25:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Jagged Edge? You can take your sad, trifling LET'S GET MARRIED song and go straight to one hit wonder hell. Next? Maybe next time with your bland and pathetically predictable WIFEY. Two of the Summer of 2000's most memorable R&B...

THE 2000 SOURCE MUSIC AWARDS--MLK Would Be So Proud...NOT!!!

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:41:36 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - When was the last time an award show started off with a disclaimer? SOURCE Magazine ran Mos Def out at the beginning and Wyclef Jean at the end of it’s 2nd Annual SOURCE AWARDS shown tonight on UPN, to perform some damage control and some how explain...

...PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE?

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 05:57:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - The Original Kings of Comedy Tour, which started in 1997 and has become one of the top-grossing arena acts in the country, and its February 2000 stop in Charlotte, NC is the setting for Spike Lee’s latest documentary. Well, lets be honest,...

Let Me Get This Straight...This is BLACK ENTERTAINMENT?

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 03:05:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - There is something wrong here.

According to a Newsweek article published in October of last year, a company that, according to DUN & BRADSTREET, netted $85 million dollars last year will paid comedians, who are predominantly Black...

WHO IS JILL SCOTT? A REVELATION THAT'S WHO!

Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:09:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Usually when something significant happens, you can remember where you were when you when it happened. Most of the time, its something of a historical, tragic or happy circumstance. But it is definitely something that becomes embedded in ones memory to...

MARY MARY/This Isn't Your Grandma's Gospel Music

Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:30:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author azbrotha - Growing up, when it came to Gospel Music, I listened to the usual suspects, Andre Crouch, Rev. James Cleveland and Shirley Caesar(did anybody see the excellent Ed Bradley interview he did of her on 60 Minutes about 5 years ago?). Nowadays? Some of my...