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Straight Outta Compton

Fresh off of its Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, Straight Outta Compton has landed on Blu-Ray and DVD. The story of N.W.A.’s rise to power is as relevant today as it is when the film takes place, the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. The film clearly resonated with audiences […]

Straight Outta Compton Blu-Ray Review: Hip Hop History Comes Home

January 19, 2016 in DVD Reviews / DVD/Blu-Ray tagged DVD Reviews / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

The guilds are starting to unveil their nominees and striking first is the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America. Each helps paint a picture of what to expect from those Oscar nominees that will be revealed next Thursday, January 14. More on that later today in […]

Producers & Writers Guilds Announces 2016 Nominees: Compton Rises!

January 6, 2016 in Nominations tagged Producers Guild / Straight Outta Compton / Writers Guild by joeldamos

Universal Studios’ hot summer continued with its latest, Straight Outta Compton, taking the prize for the most popular movie in the land in the final weekend of August. The N.W.A. biopic banked another $13.2 million to bring its total earnings to $134.1 million. This was only the latest multi-weekend topping […]

Straight Outta Compton Goes Three-For-Three: Weekend Box Office Report

August 31, 2015 in Box Office tagged Box Office / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

Straight Outta Compton topped the box office for a second straight week, giving Universal another win in an already impressive summer for the famed studio. The biopic of the rap supergroup N.W.A. added another $27.8 million to its total of $111.48 million. In a distant second place was a fellow repeat […]

Straight Outta Compton Raps Second Box Office Win

August 24, 2015 in Box Office tagged Box Office / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

N.W.A. came Straight Outta Compton and changed the world and the movie that captures their incredible story has broken records at the weekend box office. F. Gary Grey’s Straight Outta Compton arrived in theaters in banked $56 million, breaking the record for an R-rated film opening in August. Our Straight […]

Straight Outta Compton Breaks Records: Box Office Report

August 17, 2015 in Box Office tagged Box Office / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

Straight Outta Compton is one of the more effective music biopics to come out of a major Hollywood studio in quite some time. The impact of N.W.A. and their influence on not only the music world, but our culture as a whole is immense. Somehow, director F. Gary Gray manages […]

Straight Outta Compton Review: NWA Tells Their Tale

August 14, 2015 in Movie Reviews tagged Movie Reviews / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray and producer Ice Cube had their cast go through the wringer to not only get into character for their roles, but to get firmly into the mindset to play the members of N.W.A., aka the world’s most dangerous group. “It was really, really […]

Straight Outta Compton: Ice Cube & F. Gary Gray Dish ...

August 12, 2015 in Interviews tagged Ice Cube / interviews / Straight Outta Compton by joeldamos

The last month of the summer movie season is upon us and it’s time for The Movie Mensch to give you the spiel on some of the biggest films hitting screens this most scorching month of the year. There’s much to choose from during this eighth month of 2015 and the […]

August Movie Preview: The Fantastic Four & More!

August 4, 2015 in Movie News tagged August Movie Preview / Fantastic Four / Straight Outta Compton / The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by joeldamos