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Talkback || BY Jen Yamato || 03 28 2012 3:10 PM

In the Trayvon Martin Aftermath, How Soon Is Too Soon for Neighborhood Watch?

Neighborhood Watch (2012)

High five to Fox for pulling their bullet-ridden Neighborhood Watch marketing materials from Florida theaters this week following the February killing of Trayvon Martin. Trying to get as much distance as possible from the teaser's emphasis on grown men Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade stalking and finger-shooting suburban kids is a good idea and a sensitive move -- not to mention a no-brainer necessity, PR-wise -- so the studio's forthcoming campaign will likely focus on the film's "broad alien-invasion comedy" elements. But even four months from now, will it be too soon for Neighborhood Watch to make fun escapism out of vigilante violence?
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Festival Coverage || BY Jen Yamato || 01 26 2012 11:40 AM

Ice-T, Director, Talks Sundance Hip-Hop Doc Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

Sundance 2012 - Ice-T's Something fro Nothing: The Art of Rap (photo: Getty Images)

It says something about how far Ice-T has come since his gangsta rap days that his directorial debut, the hip-hop documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, premiered at Sundance to a house packed with hip-hop heads and white older moviegoers who likely know Ice better from Law & Order: SVU than “New Jack Hustler.” And it says something about the film itself, which explores the historical landscape of hip-hop in intimate detail with over 40 of Ice-T’s fellow rappers, that even the L&O-watching grandmas in the audience were bopping their heads the whole way through.
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