How seminal an influence on hip-hop is Rudy Ray Moore? Scott Alexander: He’s pretty seminal, at least according to the guys who started it. Snoop and Eazy-E always tipped their hat to Rudy, as the guy ...

Many people say that hip-hop was birthed by DJ Kool Herc on a 1973 summer evening in the Bronx. Others point to the release of the 1979 Sugarhill Gang song “Rapper’s Delight” as the moment when the ...

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 ...

If you don’t know the name Dolemite, you soon will. One of the most improbably popular film characters of the ’70s, Dolemite—played by comedian/raconteur Rudy Ray Moore—was an icon of Blaxsploitation ...

In the first 10 minutes of “Dolemite Is My Name” we see Eddie Murphy strutting down a sidewalk in outlandish 1970s regalia, as a Sly and the Family Stone song plays. My thought at that moment: Can we ...

Late in Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name, a loving biopic about plucky underdog filmmaking written by the masters of loving biopics about plucky underdog filmmakers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

A Snoop cameo and the spirit of Isaac Hayes loom large in Netflix's "Dolemite Is My Name." The filmmakers discuss its blaxploitation-style soundtrack and explain why Moore is a godfather of hip-hop.