Despite the absurdity that Rudy Ray Moore embraced as an entertainer, Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name is, for the most part, straightforward and sweet. But there was one scene that truly brought the ...

The delightfully vulgar and high-spirited comedy “Dolemite Is My Name” is unmistakably the passion project of its star, Eddie Murphy, who plays 1970s comedian Rudy Ray Moore as he works to take his ...

Dolemite Is My Name is a new Netflix biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who created a flamboyant alter ego and became a blaxploitation legend in the 1970s. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who's joined ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve read a review, thinkpiece, or tweet about Eddie Murphy in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard that the comedian is back. The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Daily Beast, and ...

“Harriet” writer-director Kasi Lemmons was in a reflective mood at Tuesday night’s “Behind the Screen” event at the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America West. The ...

We haven’t seen much of Eddie Murphy this decade — 2006’s Dreamgirls was supposed to be his comeback, to no avail — but it only takes a drop of his energy to remember what made him a star. Netflix’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott Alexander: He’s pretty seminal, at least according to the guys who started it. Snoop and Eazy-E always tipped their hat to ...