Hip-hop’s origin story — DJ Kool Herc’s 1973 Bronx dance party — channels a naturally visual mythos. In 1973, the world was still enthralled with disco, while Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, the Rolling ...

Back in 1983, the Coolidge Corner Theatre was the first cinema outside of New York City to show “Wild Style,” the original (and some say still the best) hip-hop movie. However difficult it may be for ...

When the culture of Hip Hop was only ten years in the making, this visual journey through all aspects of the culture was the blueprint of Hip Hop’s true roots Wild Style is arguably the very first ...

Coming to @criterionchannl August 1 HIP-HOP, an 18-film 50th anniversary celebration! This mixtape of the cultural phenomenon’s finest movie moments features a stunning line-up of legendary musical ...

This year, I’ve been celebrating Black History Month with a Blaxploitation movie marathon. So far, I’ve hit plenty of the classics: Shaft, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, and Dolemite. Although ...

With cinema coming at audiences from every direction in 2025, the movies that endured were the ones that refused to be ...

Hip Hop Film Festival’s 10th anniversary will spotlight Master Cyphers, a three-day Harlem series of film industry talks with a twist. The Hip Hop Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary by ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s ...

A film about a project aimed at taking young people off the streets of the Bronx, offering them hip hop as a means to process their past and help them build self-confidence. Over the course of four ...

Eminem and Brittany Murphy in a scene from '8 Mile,' 2002. (Credit: Universal/Getty Images) By 1984, hip-hop was in full force, but still in its infancy as far as narratives in cinema. Evolutionary ...