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www.rollingstone.com - : To shoot holes in the myth of the wild, white West, Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City) saddles up a posse that includes rappers Big Daddy Kane and Tone Loc, wrestler Tiny Lister Jr. and filmmaker Charles Lane. These black cowboys are not just a New Jack gimmick to sell tickets; they also help correct the neglect of blacks in books and movies about the Old West. Posse is rousing entertainment directed by Van Peebles with a rare sense of purpose and mischief. He wants to tackle racism on the range, but he knows that when it comes to getting your attention, a sermon is no match for a hip-hop, party-on shoot'em-up. Coincidentally, Posse opens the same week as a revival of the 1956 classic The Searchers, an attack on racism that some mistook for a typical John Wayne horse opera. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : The posse of Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles) is comprised of a small group of survivors who escape from an ambush set by the sadistic Colonel Graham (Billy Zane). From Cuba of 1896 to the U.S., Lee's posse moves west as he pursues vengeance against the men who murdered his father. With Colonel Graham hot on his heels, Lee arrives in Freemanville (a community of ex-slaves), the culmination of his father's dreams, whose existence is in danger from a group of corrupt whites living in the next town. more...
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