Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

The hip-hop music doesn't miss a beat in "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts." Set in Brooklyn, New York in 1994, the film is a followup to 2018’s "Transformers" prequel “Bumblebee,” which took place in ...

It’s looking like television and film executives learned a thing or two from the success of Dope, the coming-of-age story of three teenagers enthralled by the world of early 1990s hip-hop in ...

The director and production designer of the latest installment in the robot action franchise discuss recreating the sights and sounds of 1990s Brooklyn culture. By Robert Daniels In previous ...

I love all kinds of music. I love all kinds of movies. I love rap music, therefore, you can probably guess that I also love rap movies. (And you’d be right!) I’ve discussed a few on this website, like ...

Back in 1983, the Coolidge Corner Theatre was the first cinema outside of New York City to show “Wild Style,” the original (and some say still the best) hip-hop movie. However difficult it may be for ...

"When you're early, you're on time. When you're on time, you are late. When you late, you fired!" That magically simplistic—and wholly important—piece of advice is doled out to the savvy Nikki Jones ...

A few years ago I found myself listening to a studio chief expounding about how important it was for Hollywood to tap into the latest youth culture trend, or as he put it, “catch a wave before it hits ...