The Exorcist

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This fairly ridiculous film includes a barrage of violent sexual messages. The movie isn’t scary, but the sexualization of a young girl is horrific. Sexual violence is made light of, to some extent, as she tells her mother “fu*k […]

Independent Lens and Byron Hurt: Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Byron Hurt’s documentary
I read novels, and fall asleep to non-fiction. I’d pick a Christopher Guest mockumentary over a documentary any day. But Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes was engaging and entertaining, exploring masculinity, misogyny, homophobia and objectification in hip hop music and videos.
Filmmaker Byron Hurt’s appreciation and respect for hip hop is evident in […]