Like The Disaster Artist—James Franco’s tribute to Hollywood’s favorite weirdo, Tommy Wiseau—a large portion of Dolemite is My Name is dedicated to recreating a low-budget, DIY, and completely ...

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Dolemite Is My Name is a new Netflix biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who created a flamboyant alter ego and became a blaxploitation legend in the 1970s. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who's joined ...

Rudy Ray Moore, the1970’s comedian who played the starring role of a fast-talking pimp in the 1975 film “Dolemite,” died on Sunday of complications from diabetes at the age of 81, in a nursing home in ...

Eddie Murphy and Netflix will deliver a history lesson this week with Dolemite Is My Name, a new Netflix original movie about comedian and actor Rudy Ray Moore. Moore is best known for his 1975 ...

If you've only seen the top tier of the so-called "blaxploitation" action films of the 1970s -- "Super Fly," "Black Caesar," "Foxy Brown" -- it may be time to go deeper. "Dolemite" (1975) will do the ...

As its title character might put it, “Dolemite Is My Name” is a total motherf—kin’ blast. It tells the story — all true, all outrageous — of one of the most successful blaxploitation films of the ’70s ...

The film centers on Rudy Ray Moore, D.I.Y. comedy pioneer, hip-hop forefather and blaxploitation star. Here’s the true story behind the movie and where you can watch the original. By Reggie Ugwu See ...

With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute. A ...

"Dolemite is my name, and f----- up m----f---- is my game," the NSFW trailer shows Murphy's Rudy Ray Moore saying Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. "Dolemite Is My Name" is getting rave reviews with many critics calling it a comeback movie for Eddie ...