"Friday After Next" takes us to Christmas time in South Central LA with Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps), two cousins who just can't catch a break. Their holiday season kicks off with a bang when a ghetto Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) raids their apartment, stealing their rent money AND their presents. The boys take jobs as security guards at an urban strip mall to make their rent money back before their landlord's musclebound son Damon (Terry Crews) comes collecting. The most wonderful time of the year turns into a wild adventure in the hood.

Topics discussed:

🎄 It's a Christmas movie

👥 We see an evolution of the dynamic between Craig & Day-Day

😂 There is a shift to a more slapstick style of comedy

3️⃣ This was the last Friday installment for more than two decades – until the fourth movie, which is scheduled for release next year

🕺🏻 The movie helped launch the career of Katt Williams!

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Our episodes on Friday and Next Friday

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We hosted a panel discussion after our screening of Boyz N the Hood at SteelStacks, featuring Vernard James, Andrew McIntosh, and Ali Akarcesme. (Nandini Sikand was unavailable at the last minute.)

On February 5, we will be screening Breakin' at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks. Tickets available at SteelStacks.org

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Both are important Hip Hop films, but is one more relevant to today's times than the other? The HHMCs discuss!

Our original episode on Do the Right Thing

Our original episode on Boyz N the Hood

How much are the homes in the Boyz N the Hood 'hood today? (TikTok)

Our screening of Boyz n the Hood in 4K is tonight, November 13! Join us at SteelStacks in Bethlehem and hear from a panel of professors and filmmakers in the Lehigh Valley. Tickets still available!

Don't hate...educate!

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We are joined by Mickey Hess, professor and author of several Hip Hop-related books to talk about the Hip Hop artists that have performed at Rider over the years. Hess himself has brought many of them to campus, including legends like Masta Ace and Rah Digga.

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On November 13, we will be screening Boyz n the Hood in 4K at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks, followed by a panel discussion featuring Ali Y. Akarcesme (Kutztown University), Vernard James (Black Film: Then & Now), and Andrew McIntosh (Northampton CC). Throwback DJ set by DJ ARM 18 at 6:45, screening at 7:15. Tickets available at steelstacks.org.

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Boyz n the Hood (rebroadcast)

In time for our screening of Boyz n the Hood in 4K at SteelStacks in Bethlehem on November 13th, here is a rebroadcast of our original episode on Boyz n the Hood.

You don't want to miss this screening, as we'll have a throwback set by DJ ARM 18 at 6:45, and then a really terrific panel discussion about the film featuring Ali Akarcesme, a filmmaker and professor from Kutztown University, Andrew McIntosh, a sociology professor from Northampton Community College (whom you already know as DJ ARM 18), Vernard James, a filmmaker and co-curator of the Black Film: Then & Now series at SteelStacks and Nandini Sikand, a filmmaker, professor and artist from Lafayette College.

Get your tickets at steelstacks.org.

A fun and inspirational LEGO® movie about the creativity and career of Pharrell Williams!

Topics discussed:

🧱 What better way to tell the story of Pharrell Williams' vivid life than through LEGO bricks?

🤩 He has produced and written so many great songs, you could easily forget just how many!

📈 How Pharrell overcame adversity is a good lesson for all.

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Leaving the Theater with Ronald Young Jr. (a former guest on the show)

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Don't hate...be great!

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De La Soul joins forces with the Teen Titans to save their legendary music from a space monster!

Topics discussed:

3️⃣ The episode pays tribute to the legendary De La Soul as a fun and influential hip-hop trio.

🥊 There is a major theme around the group's lengthy battle with Tommy Boy Records for the rights to their own music.

🥚 Multiple Easter eggs in the episode will delight De La Soul fans.

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A clip from the episode

"Eye Know" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:

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In honor of our upcoming screening of Boyz n the Hood in 4K on November 13 at SteelStacks, we are taking a close look at the film and TV career of Ice Cube.

Topics discussed:

🎞️ Ice Cube is more versatile as an actor than you might realize. 

🎭 Even as his acting career has evolved in surprising ways, he has stayed true and authentic to himself. 

🏀 His career also evolved to include founding the Big 3, a basketball league with former NBA players, and other entrepreneurial projects.  

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Our original episodes on Boyz n the Hood, Friday and Next Friday.

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Don't hate...motivate!

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In honor of LL Cool J's new album The FORCE, we profiled The GOAT's film and television career.

Topics discussed:

🎞️ He has a more broad TV and film resume than you realize.

🛟 He is too popular with audiences to die, therefore you don't see that in his work.

🎤 He has become an ambassador for hip hop as well as mentor figure in both music and the entertainment industry at large.

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Our episode on In Too Deep (1999), starring LL Cool J and Omar Epps.

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Don't hate...punctuate!

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Today on the show, our interview with the legendary Craig G of the Juice Crew, who had a pivotal role in the making of the Eminem film 8 Mile.

We welcomed him to the Hip Hop Movie Club show for a conversation on 8 Mile, his own experiences rapping and battling other MC's, and more. We showed this exclusive video interview of the legendary Craig G of the Juice Crew after our screening of 8 Mile at SteelStacks.

He has a new single out "The Okey Doke" now on all streaming platforms, and a new album dropping November 1st called "The World Is Cooked". Check all of that out at his Spotify page.

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Our original episode on 8 Mile

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