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Screaming in the movies is like shooting someone in the face with a nuclear missile: you already have our undivided attention, yet you insist on using maximum force to really hammer home your point. Obnoxious as screaming in movies can become if over-done, when used effectively it can lead to some of the most iconic [...]

Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger? No? Well, it wasn’t an Oscar bait film (in fact it was pretty grossly under-rated), but at one point Murphy’s action movie star character Kit Ramsey points out that black men only get nominated for Oscars if they play slaves, and even then it’s the [...]