AltWeeklies Wire
Hip Hop-portunity: A Pittsburgh Film Festival Gives Hip-Hop Its Duenew
Hip-hop was once about public access to the creative cultural expressions of the city, but that element has become increasingly less accessible to the public. Nowhere is that truer than in independent hip-hop documentaries and narrative films.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
11-18-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Hip Hop Film Festival
Screwed and Chopped, Not Stirrednew
Screwed and chopped music proves that slow motion is better than no motion.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
11-12-2005 |
Reviews
Pimpin' Ain't Easynew
Forget trying to knock the hustle, because you can't. And please resist the Rocky comparisons, because it's not. More like Purple Rain, this humid film about the blood-work of a ghetto pimp's comeuppance could use a little drizzle.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
07-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Cold Case: Tulsa Race Riot Survivors Closer to Reparationsnew
A chilling tale of Tulsa race riots reaches all the way to Pittsburgh, and the U.S. Supreme Court. It may very well change the way the country approaches race relations
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Brentin Mock |
04-08-2005 |
Race & Class
