It has to be the oddest situation of pointless one-upmanship imaginable. On the one side is Frank Lucas, glamorized urban criminal and self-proclaimed king of '70s Harlem heroin. His corporate, buttoned-down approach to people poisoning would eventually become the source...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Marc Levin"
Cabbies say the darnedest things. While many people have had a whole range of cabdriver conversations, most of us haven't had an eye-opener like the one filmmaker Marc Levin had with an Egyptian driver who told him that no Jews...... more »
From Mississippi Masala to Jungle Fever, interracial dating has always been an exciting topic that Hollywood has embraced and ended up using to produce... some really boring movies. The overly familiar-sounding Brooklyn Babylon features (see if you can guess) a...... more »
Enter the gritty world of urban street poetry that you never knew existed. Not that you may care too much after seeing Slam, which basically portrays said poetry as 'rap lite.' The story features a two-bit drug dealer (Williams) who...... more »