Laurence Fishburne

Universal feeds you “The Signal”

September 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Universal Home Entertainment has just added the mind-bending and suspenseful sci-fi thriller The Signal to their roster, scheduling the film for release later this month. Nic (Brenton Thwaites), his girlfriend, Haley (Olivia Cooke), and his buddy, Jonah [...]

Contagion

February 9, 2012 // 0 Comments

When "Contagion" ran in theaters, the film intrigued me, conjuring up memories of "Outbreak, " an epidemic movie about the outbreak of a previously undiscovered virus. Yet, "Contagion" seemed to have a different feel to it [...]

TMNT

September 11, 2007 // 0 Comments

The new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" seemed, for me at least, to arrive out of nowhere. It had been a few years since the last movie and I didn't pay much attention to the movie's development cycle. So this is my first exposure to [...]

Assault On Precinct 13

May 17, 2006 // 0 Comments

Virtually all Hollywood studios spend more time these days remaking classic movies – many of which really don't need remakes – than thinking up new concepts. Any way I look at it, I think it is a sad testimony to the state the movie [...]

The Tuskegee Airmen

March 1, 2001 // 0 Comments

On July 19, 1941 the United States Army Air Force began training the first African-American fighter pilots in our nation’s history. Primary training took place at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and the pilots who graduated from that program came to [...]

The Matrix

September 1, 1999 // 0 Comments

Ever since I first read William Gibson’s novel "Neuromancer" novel, and since I had laid my hands on FASA’s "Shadowrun" role-playing games I had dreamed of a movie that takes the Cyberpunk world described in these works and puts it [...]

Hoodlum

February 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

"Hoodlum" is an impetuous movie, based on legendary characters from the 30’s-era Harlem crime scene. Though not completely true to history, neither is it absolutely fictitious. At first glance it appears to be like many other ’30’s crime [...]