Tag: angela bassett

Masked and Anonymous is a clever ode to Bob Dylan's career and legendary persona reflecting his tenuous relationship with the myths he's created over the years.

“Same Old Ethan” Few summer blockbusters appeal to film buffs, and then there’s Mission: Impossible. Practicality and Tom Cruise’s questionable non-commitment to safety creates faultless screen action. Implausible, yet …

Space: Where No One Hears Any Laughs The “in space” sequel, or the end-of-the-creative-line for a horror series. Where other franchises reach a comedic crescendo on a spaceship (Jason …

For Wakanda Killmonger, Black Panther’s supervillain, is right. He speaks against mass incarceration, for civil rights, notes cultural theft, and acknowledges poverty. He lived in ghettos, lost his father, …

Stephen Poliakoff’s character-driven British mini-series set after World War II Close To The Enemy is sophisticated period drama adroitly set in the aftermath of World War II. Writer and …

Action Has Fallen With an insipid idea, the Olympus Has Fallen movie-verse continues in this sequel, placing its ludicrous kick-stab-shoot patriotism into London. Gerard Butler wails on terrorists who …

Gratuitous violence may as well contain red, white, and blue stripes with every thrown punch or trails from fired bullets.