David Oyelowo
Attend a Virtual Screening of ROLE PLAY
Enter this contest for your chance to win passes to attend an advance "virtual" screening of "ROLE PLAY" on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 7:30pm!
DVD Review: A Most Violent Year
Self-made businessman Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is riding high. As a Puerto Rican success story in 1981, he’s got a thriving business, spiffy threads, and a wife (Jessica Chastain) that’d put Michelle Pfeiffer’s Elvira to shame. He’s achieved it all with a moral code that remains ironclad amidst the city’s growing crime rate. That is, until hijackers begin putting his oil trucks at risk. Th...[Read More]
Interview with David Oyelowo, Star and Producer of Captive
In March 2005, Ashley Smith was held hostage in her apartment by Brian Nichols, an escaped killer hell-bent on seeing his newborn son. As Nichols kept Smith captive for seven hours, the pair slowly came to a crossroads between hope and despair. Smith had bonded with Nichols by reading aloud Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life. The new film, Captive, based on Smith’s account of ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Selma
Ever since standing inside a frozen moment at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis – looking across to where the bullet must have issued, taking the life of an icon of nonviolent resistance – the image of Dr. Martin Luther King has become something more intimate to me. Black and white schoolroom footage becomes flesh, the voices less distant, when you stare into the full horizon of the cultural landscape...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Christopher Nolan Launches Into Space with Interstellar
Hello again, dear readers. There are only two weeks left in August, and the summer movie season has started winding down. With that in mind, it’s time to start looking ahead to what’s coming out in the fall and winter. And this week’s Trailer Trashin’ examines what looks like a very promising November release – Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi film Interstellar. Pr...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher, a film about a former Military Police Major turned drifter/justice dispenser, stars Tom Cruise as the title character involved in a defense case with Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), a stunning and sharp lawyer who has taken on the task of trying to keep a man convicted of killing five random people from receiving the death penalty. The opening scene is brutal, as we watch people go abou...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Cruise versus Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher
This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the second trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming book-adapted thriller Jack Reacher. Premise: In an innocent heartland city, five people are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reac...[Read More]
Movie Review: Red Tails
The inherent issue with having an all-black cast is mainstream society will label Red Tails a “black” movie. This would be a grave disservice. The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, or the 332nd Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Corps, is an integral part of American history. Because of their successes, World War II could not have been won, therefore making Red Tails a movie about the freedom...[Read More]