When HBO’s “The Wire” went off the air in 2008, viewers protested loudly that David Simon’s gritty, Baltimore-based crime drama went away without one Emmy win. Despite being celebrated in hindsight as one of the greatest TV series ever, the show only received modest ratings when it was on. But maybe the format didn’t quite […]
OK, so this movie may be sugary and corny as a box of corn puffs, but we love The Five Heartbeats just the same. Robert Townsend’s 1991 R&B drama was loosely based on the lives of several artists; The Dells, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke, and David Ruffin, […]
