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Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Dolemite Is My Name" (2019)

Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Tom Lorenzo

Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Tv & Film, News

4.5780 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week's BKMC pod pays tribute to director Craig Brewster and star Eddie Murphy's glorious salute to the Blaxploitation era and unpacks the ways the film upholds a unique and important take on cultural history that shares a lot of DNA with queer culture.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're Tom Lorenzo.

0:23.6

And this is the Bitter Kitten movie club.

0:26.6

Hello Kittens, welcome back to another edition of the BKMC, a supplemental edition of the PSO

0:31.6

podcast where we take a look at one film per week and give it the Tilo treatment.

0:36.6

This week's film is Dolomite is my name,

0:39.3

and this is the first time I haven't screwed up the intro.

0:41.3

So yay me, we are officially a podcast

0:44.3

because I can get through the intro without screwing it up.

0:47.3

There you go.

0:48.3

Okay, so this week's film is Dolomite is my name

0:50.3

by director, directed by Craig Burwer,

0:53.3

starring Eddie Murphy as

0:56.0

the semi-legendary Rudy Ray Moore also starring Dave I enjoy Randolph uh... Keegan

1:02.0

Michael Kaye Wesley Snipes and just an a list collection of black actors

1:08.0

and uh...

1:10.8

honestly we had so much fun watching this.

1:13.6

Now, I have seen this film when it first came out.

1:16.8

Right, same year.

1:18.0

And in fact, we had a...

1:20.3

It's still floating out in the world.

1:21.7

I don't know what's going to happen with it,

1:22.9

but we had a movie costume book proposal

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