These 12 sleazy 1970s movies don’t care about respect — they care about entertainment. We aren’t talking about movies with ...

Overtly vulgar and salacious, “Dolemite Is My Name” is an unabashed celebration of the spirit and life of 1970s blaxploitation-era film icon Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy). The film chronicles Moore’s ...

The Netflix film “Dolemite Is My Name” may feature Eddie Murphy as the lead, but the actor says it’s Tyler Perry who embodies the real-life version of the titular character. Murphy won critical ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy‘s return to the screen in Dolemite Is My Name has put him in the awards mix, and he seems poised to regain his position atop the comedy heap starting with tomorrow’s historic ...

A version of this story about “Dolemite Is My Name” writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski first appeared in the Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of ...

At one point in “Dolemite Is My Name,” the screenwriter insists that his creative projects have “to inform as well as entertain.” This was also our personal mission with our script for the film. On ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

A Snoop cameo and the spirit of Isaac Hayes loom large in Netflix's "Dolemite Is My Name." The filmmakers discuss its blaxploitation-style soundtrack and explain why Moore is a godfather of hip-hop.

Late in Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name, a loving biopic about plucky underdog filmmaking written by the masters of loving biopics about plucky underdog filmmakers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski ...

Chasing your dreams can be a costly and stressful journey. Everything in your being is telling you to stop and retreat back to a machine-like existence, but you continue to push on against the odds.

Rudy Ray Moore was “breezy and funny” in his standup comedy, Variety declared in a 1970 review at the California Sahara nightclub in South Central L.A. Five years later, a Variety film critic saw ...