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Director: Brian A. Miller | Stars: Chris Klein, Adam Rodriguez, 50 Cent, Richard T. Jones. Votes: 1,282
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Two detectives (Chris Klein, Richard T. Jones) are targeted by gangsters and crooked cops as they investigate an important case.
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- “Carmencita”
- “The Kiss”
- James Joyce’s Ulysses
The first short films were clear targets for anti-obscenity activists, and this 21-second clip of what the Library of Congress calls the first woman to be in front of an Thomas Edison movie camera is “one of the first ones that we think was banned,” says Wheeler. Its star, Carmencita, was a Spanish Vaudeville dancer and a fixture at Koster & Bial’s...
In what is considered to be the “first movie kiss,” actors May Irwin and John Rice reprised the smooch from their Broadway comedy The Widow Jones for a film shot by Thomas Edison’s Vitascope cinema projector. Even though most of the 19-second clip just shows the two of them talking and nuzzling, it is said to have been “banned in many places,” acco...
Censorship didn’t just apply to film, of course. While the two examples above seem innocuous today, one of the most famous examples of U.S. obscenity law came from a book that can be plenty raunchy but is also full of artistic merit. James Joyce’s Ulysses was not legally available in the U.S. until more than a decade after it was published. As a 19...
Standing in contrast to the criminals and baddies that crowd his CV, Roth's work as the innocent, seafaring pianist in the Giuseppe Tornatore film The Legend of 1900 (1998) became something of a fan favorite.
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- Dulwich, London, England, UK
Roth played Emil Blonsky/Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
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