Coming 2 America (2021)
Coming 2 America is the much-belated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s most popular of starring vehicles, 1988’s Coming to America. Murphy returns to his role as Akeem Joffer, an obscenely wealthy prince of the fictional...
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Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man starts off in Los Angeles’s near future of 1996, where crime has run rampant. It takes someone ruthless to catch ruthless criminals, and that man is super-cop John Spartan (Stallone, Rocky V), whose take-no-prisoners...
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
Although generally considered one of writer-director Spike Lee’s (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever) weaker efforts, I do have a soft spot for Mo’ Better Blues, despite agreeing with much of the criticism. Despite being all...
New Jack City (1991)
Wesley Snipes is cast as Nino Brown, who catapults himself from two-bit crook to drug syndicate kingpin in the late 1980s by riding the wave of crack cocaine that took the inner cities by...
Jungle Fever (1991)
Spike Lee (Clockers, He Got Game) tackles the racism issue head on once again with his provocative drama, Jungle Fever, which deals with the complications of an interracial relationship in the racially charged environs of metropolitan...
Major League (1989)
Major League is meant to make you laugh, pure and simple. Baseball is merely the platform for some funny hi-jinks, but these characters could have been plugged into any sport and it would have been...
Blade (1998)
After his mother (Lathan) had been bitten by a vampire during her pregnancy, her son Eric, later dubbed “Blade” (Snipes) was born with reconstructed DNA, giving him a mixture of strengths between vampires and humans. At...
Blade II (2002)
Although I am a fan of comic books, and enjoy Wesley Snipes’ work even when he is playing an expressionless monosyllabic badass, I was disappointed in the first film in what is now a...
Zig Zag (2002)
David S. Goyer’s previous work includes screenwriting credits on such films as Blade (and Blade II), Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, Death Warrant and Kickboxer 2. Not exactly work brimming with character development. Curiously, Goyer’s first time directing a film...