August 11, 2005

New film 'Four Brothers' makes Detroit the new frontier

A review of a new urban adventure movie called "Four Brothers" includes an observation by WSU professor Melba Boyd, who teaches black cinema. "The mentality of Westerns and urban action movies is that the system doesn't really care - that there's no justice in the court," she explained. "In urban films, the cultural dynamic has changed, but it's really two sides of the same coin."

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