Review Haiku – Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Posted on January 12, 2012
Send-up of ‘hood films
To learn to be a black man
Ashtray goes to dad
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Review Haiku – Notorious
Posted on December 23, 2011
From rocks to cell blocks
Gettin’ rich from the rhyme drops
Biggie was the tops
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Review Haiku – Rabbit-Proof Fence
Posted on December 20, 2011
Noble government
Taking kids away from home
A great moral wrong
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Review Haiku – Romeo + Juliet
Posted on December 18, 2011
The most famous play
Delivered on silver screen
What a tale of woe
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Review Haiku – Hey Babu Riba
Posted on December 14, 2011
A team of rowers
Take their cox to Italy
To meet her father
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Review Haiku – Roller Boogie
Posted on December 13, 2011
Poor little rich girl
Falls in love with skater guy
Saves roller disco
It’s like Bollywood
Groups of synchronized dancers
But on roller skates
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Review Haiku – Gotcha!
Posted on December 3, 2011
College kid on break
Meets Czech woman in Paris
She gives him strudel
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Review Haiku – Revenge of the Nerds
Posted on December 1, 2011
Put down and kicked out
Jocks make these freshmen suffer
The nerds get revenge
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Review Haiku – FLCL
Posted on August 4, 2011
Awkward teenage love
Interrupted by a girl
Riding a Vespa
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Review Haiku – Boyz N the Hood
Posted on July 25, 2011
Suspended from school
Tre gets sent to his father
To become a man
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