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The great tragedy of Cake is that, although for a brief period in the middle '90s they achieved a certain…
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With its, by the standard of other early 2000s domcoms (domestic comedies, if you like), high-concept premise--mild mannered milksop must…
In the opening minutes of Despicable Me, Steve Carell's polymorphously perverse super-villain, Gru--whose character design seems to have been modeled…
Though hardly a conventional long player, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual band Gorillaz' latest release, The Fall, is many…
In the tradition of Proof and Doubt, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole is another attempt to translate a Pulitzer Prize-…
Though the release of their debut album, 1993's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), saw the rise of the Wu-Tang Clan…
After finding success as stand-up comedian in the early 1990s, Jamie Foxx released the embarrassing New Jack Swing album, Peep…
It would not be unreasonable to regard R. Kelly's revisionist-soul album Love Letter as a plea for sanity in an…
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Sean Combs' first studio album in four years, Last Train to Paris, sees the debut of his new "band," Diddy-Dirty…
At some point after completing his second-to-last prison term on federal gun charges and before commencing his current 11-month term…
Having ever since his breakthrough single--2007's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"--been the recipient of almost unremitting scorn from critics, rappers, rap…