Hip hop loves movies, not only do you have groups like Wu-Tang having their styles influenced by kung fu flicks, but you've got rappers like Will Smith, Ice Cube, and LL Cool J developing full fledge movie careers. But even if Common or T.I. isn't making an appearance in the movie, HipHopDX will still be there to tell you whether or not to spend your hard earned money on it or just cop the 30 new Lil' Wayne mixtapes that just dropped.

Iron Monkey October 9th, 2001 - | Theatre Release | Comments: 0

Hollywood is notorious for taking a format that has proven its box-office muscle and milking its success a million times through corny spin-offs and ridiculous rip-offs. Sometimes the public bites (psychological thrillers), but at other times, folks politely decline seconds (teen slasher flicks). There are those who think director Yuen Woo-Ping is merely riding the coattails of the amazing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the release of his Iron Monkey. Well, that ain't the case. As a matter of fact, Woo-Ping, the acclaimed action choreographer of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, made this movie way back in 1993, but the high-flying kung-fu flick was slept on more

From Hell October 24th, 2001 - | Theatre Release | Comments: 0

Johnny Depp is one of the more unheralded acting talents today. Capable of making the creepy fun (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow) and the fun creepy (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Depp can usually be counted on to fills voids most actors simply aren't able to. Yet even with that said, when it comes time to list Hollywood's elite, Johnny Depp is often short-changed. This performance could correct all of that. In the dreary From Hell, Depp is Inspector Fred Abberline, an interesting character obsessed with getting his man almost as much as getting that next high. Abberline, who can regularly be found "chasing the dragon" with

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