Friday, January 16, 2009
Film Q: Hey, Snobby L Magazine Film Editor Mark Asch, How Come The L Didn't Review the Notorious B.I.G. Movie?
Posted by Mark on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM
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Alas, though we would have liked nothing better than to have covered Notorious in the current (1/7-1/20) issue of the L, the film didn't screen for critics until last week. So Benjamin H. Sutton saw the movie to review it for our website — rather predictably, it's just your average wikipedia-corresponding music biopic. But with, you know, Biggie songs on the soundtrack. And a rather interesting, perhaps unintentional take on gender.
And I would be remiss in not pointing out that, in another too-late-for-print web review of a film opening today, Henry Stewart does the heroic work of teasing out the Great New Depression resonances of Paul Blart: Mall Cop. (An intriguingly ambivalent film in its relation to consumer culture, as it turns out!)
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Wasn't there a Tupac movie too? Or am I imagining things?
Tupac acted in a number of movies, and there's been a Tupac documentary or two pretty much every year since his death. As for an acutal biopic, a drama based on his life, no, it doesn't appear so.
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