Category: Movie Reviews

Let’s face it, from Tomb Raider (2001) to Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) to Wanted (2008), Angelina Jolie has always delivered in her high-octane action adventures, and Salt is no exception. This espionage thriller about a Russian mole strategically planted in the U.S. couldn’t be timelier, given the recent arrest of Anna Chapman, the flamboyant […]

On Oct. 16, 1995, African-American males descended in droves on the District of Columbia for a historic gathering on the National Mall. Prophetically dubbed the Million Man March ahead of time, the gathering lived up to its billing, with anywhere between 1 and 2 million brothers attending – depending upon the news source. Over the […]

“The moment that Omar and Buddy decided to keep that camera, it transformed them from being inmates to being filmmakers.” -“An Omar Broadway Film” Being confined in a cell for 23 hours was the daily life of Omar Broadway. Sentenced to 10 years in maximum security at Newark, N.J.’s Northern State Prison, Broadway witnessed firsthand […]

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In the opening scene of Grown Ups, a Black kid (Jameel McGill), who has very obviously double-dribbled during a basketball game, unreasonably calls the referee a racist for blowing the whistle on him. That scene sets the tone for the rest of a movie that is essentially a series of offensive one-liners coming mostly at […]

Hollywood has a knack for quickly cranking out knockoffs of Academy Award-winning movies which is why I’m wondering what took somebody this long to make a flick similar to No Country for Old Men. Directed by Brit Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart), The Killer Inside Me is actually a remake of a 1976 crime caper […]

In a new take on the biblical story of David and Saul, Blessed & Cursed depicts the struggle of Dwight Hawkins – played by famed gospel artist Deitrick Haddon – to determine his God-given purpose on Earth. After his dreams of becoming a bishop fall apart, Dwight feels compelled to help his ailing father. However, […]

If you think blacks and Asians have been given a raw deal over the years by Hollywood in the way they’ve been portrayed in pictures, then you should reflect upon the hateful, harmful depictions of Native Americans on film. For, this beleaguered ethnic group has generally been stereotyped in very limited fashion, namely, as a […]

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Hollywood is in the midst of a full-blown revival of eighties classics, and the latest beneficiary of that sense of nostalgia is The Karate Kid. The 1984 martial arts hit was a modestly-budgeted revenge flick about a 98-pound weakling who gets bullied by classmates after he and his mom relocate to California. But the newcomer […]

BIG BUDGET FILMS Jonah Hex (Unrated) Screen adaptation of the DC Comics series about a scarfaced bounty hunter of last resort (Josh Brolin) who cuts a deal with the U.S. military to track down his archenemy (John Malkovich), a frightening terrorist threatening to unleash hell. With Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Thomas Lennon and Aidan Quinn. […]

Perhaps not being female or not being privy to the original HBO series seriously limits one’s ability to appreciate the adaptations of Sex and the City. Regardless, this critic came away feeling the same about the sequel as I did about the original screen version. This installment is set a couple of years after the […]