Posts Tagged ‘Angela Bassett’
Film Review – London Has Fallen
There’s a moment early into the action in London Has Fallen where the film’s hero Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) executes a bad guy in an isolated situation. President of the United States, Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) is watching Banning as he does this and responds with…
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Film Review – Black Nativity
With the holiday season kicking into high gear, we can expect our fair share of holiday-themed movies. If you’re not the type who enjoys this kind of fare, it may be best for you to turn away now. Black Nativity is unabashedly a Christmas musical,…
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Film Review – Olympus Has Fallen
At this point, Gerard Butler has carved himself a career that falls into two categories: the romantic comedy or the action spectacle. If he’s not in one, he’s in the other. Scrub, rinse, dry, repeat. This time, we see him, guns blazing, in Antoine Fuqua’s…
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For the Ladies (Special Whitney Edition) – Waiting to Exhale
With the passing of Whitney Houston, I thought we could journey back to 1995 and discuss a more modern women’s film, Waiting to Exhale. I tend to focus on women’s pictures of earlier decades simply because the films marketed towards women during the ’30s, ’40s,…
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Bird Watching – Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days”
It’s probably fair to say that Kathryn Bigelow is the most famous female film director working today. Maybe that’s why I’ve taken my time in getting to discussing any of her work in this column. Nobody needs to be told who she is. She has,…
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