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As its title character might put it, “Dolemite Is My Name” is a total motherf—kin’ blast. It tells the story — all true, all outrageous — of one of the most successful blaxploitation films of the ’70s ...

Eddie Murphy is his name and making funny but irreverent movies is his game. “Dolemite Is My Name” portrays the rise of influential blaxploitation filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore (Murphy) from “Black Snake ...

The very title of Dolemite Is My Name is both a declaration and an introduction, abbreviating one of the character's signature lines: "Dolemite is my name, and fucking up motherfuckers is my game." ...

Whenever he’s not too busy cheering on his Key & Peele collaborator’s Oscar for writing Get Out or making fun of Thomas Jane’s mom in the latest trailer for The Predator, Keegan-Michael Key is working ...

In 2002, right there in the lobby of the Broadmoor Cinema 4 in Baton Rouge, a legend held court. “Well, let me explain to you,” said Rudy Ray Moore, the actor and comedian known as Dolemite. “I have ...

In the first trailer for Netflix movie 'Dolemite Is My Name,' Eddie Murphy plays a struggling comedian who finds success performing stand-up under the persona of Dolemite, a pimp with a cane and a ...

This is the space where I’d normally insert an appropriate and hilarious Dolemite quote to kick off this story. But anyone familiar with Dolemite — the kung-fu-fighting, crass-rhyming pimp character ...

Eddie Murphy in "Dolemite Is My Name." Courtesy of TIFF TORONTO — “Dolemite Is My Name” kicks off the Eddie Murphy comeback that’s been a very long time coming. And this comic biopic is a blast from ...

Financed by the streaming behemoth Netflix, the new Eddie Murphy comedy “Dolemite is My Name” enters the marketplace Thursday evening with a couple of sharp angles of interest. It’s a film-nerd movie, ...