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There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Honor the Late Richard Roundtree Than By Re-Running This Piece on the Godawful Shaft Reboot But It's the One We're Going With
There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Honor the Late Richard Roundtree Than By Re-Running This Piece on the Godawful Shaft Reboot But It's the One We're Going With

Nearly two decades after the release of 2000’s Shaft they decided to make a sequel re-imagining the formerly coolest motherfucker on the planet as your cranky boomer uncle. The film, and the idea, were both #Quitepoor

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinSamuel L. Jackson, sequel, blaxploitation, Shaft, Richar Roundtree
The 2012 Flop A Thousand Words Made Eddie Murphy's Long Break From Movies Eminently Understandable
The 2012 Flop A Thousand Words Made Eddie Murphy's Long Break From Movies Eminently Understandable

With Dolemite Is My Name wowing critics and audiences, we take a not so fond look at one of the many abysmal Eddie Murphy vehicles that made that comeback necessary, in this case the dreadful, long-shelved metaphysical comedy-drama A Thousand Words.

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinEddie Murphy, Dreamgirls, Bowfinger, A Thousand Words, Dolemite Is My Name, Rudy Ray Moore
Nicolas Cage Tangles With Cartoon Sharks in USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Nicolas Cage Tangles With Cartoon Sharks in USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

The riveting, horrifying, shark-infested true story of the USS Indianapolis is brought to the big screen by Jaws: The Revenge star Mario Van Peebles in a clunky mediocrity with a deeply committed performance by Nicolas Cage as a uniquely cursed military man.

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Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinNicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Mario Van Peebles, war movies, Thomas Jane