Some Beach Photos (Shot on Film)
Where: Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach Who: Little Simz and Soul Culture UK's Eddie ...
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Feb
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Feb
Soultrain.com Profile: Jean Grae
Hip-hop purists for decades have considered Jean Grae (real name Tsidi lbrahim) as one of the most underrated MCs the genre has to offer, male or female. The Cape Town, South Africa born, New York transplant began her rap career under mid-90s outlet Natural Resources....
11
Feb
The Script Lab Review: 1982
Writer, director and producer Tommy Oliver concerns himself with effect rather than cause in 1982.Those destructive results of crack cocaine’s early 80s infiltration are seen through the eyes of a Philadelphia family headed by Hill Harper’s (CSI and For Colored Girls) stunning portrayal of Tim Brown. Harper captivates as...
10
Feb
The Script Lab Review: Blue Caprice
“You know it’s not crazy to kill people, they do it everyday,” coldly explains Isaiah Washington’s shocking transformation as one-half of DC sniper John Muhammad in Alexandre Moors excellently directed Blue Caprice. The psychopathic rhetoric doesn’t become as important to the teacher than the student. Listening is...
10
Feb
The Script Lab Review: Small Small Thing
Almost seven years after democratically electing its first president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, both sides of the decades long Liberia civil war still bare emotional and physical scars. The hardest hit by the horrendous violence were women and girls as young as infants through sexual assault....
08
Feb
The Script Lab Review: Of Good Report
By now, much has been said about South African director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and his controversial film Of Good Report. Whether labeled as child porn by the Rainbow Nation’s government or almost being banned at last year’s Durban International Film Festival, this contemporary take on film noir...
Soultrain.com Q&A: Open Mike Eagle
Open Mike Eagle has been a fixture of underground Los Angeles for quite some time. A member of locally iconic and long-running collective Project Blowed, the Chicago native is the area’s champion of cerebral “art rap” that’s equally engrossing and flat out hilarious. That knack...
Killer Instinct Glitch
The much anticipated Spinal update for Killer Instinct( my favorite fighter of last year) launched Friday and Double Helix did one fine job. Outside of having an awesome art design, Spinal's extremely technical mechanics only enhances Killer Instinct's growing status amongst competitive level fighters. However, whoever is...