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Posts Tagged "Laurence Fishburne"

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Othello *** (1995, Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob) – Classic Movie Review 3340

Ideally cast Kenneth Branagh scores a triumph as the scheming villain Iago in this penny-plain, much-cut 1995 film version of the Shakespeare play of scheming and betrayal in 16th-century Venice. But, try as they might, […]

Feb, 08

Mission: Impossible III *** (2006, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 2739

Co-writer J J Abrams makes his first film as a director in the 2006 third instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, in which Tom Cruise’s agent Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the […]

Jul, 24

The Signal ***½ (2014, Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne) – Movie Review

Fascinating if baffling sci-fi thriller starring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke and Beau Knapp  as three nerd friends who go on a road trip and are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. Thwaites regains […]

Mar, 26

Event Horizon ***½ (1997, Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 1173

Script problems and an unnecessarily nasty tone do some structural damage to director Paul (Mortal Kombat) Anderson’s eerily spooky 1997 science-fiction chiller, in which a rescue ship sets off to find the title deep-space research […]

May, 04

School Daze *** (1988, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Joe Seneca, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 893

In his second film (after She’s Gotta Have It in 1986), from way back 1988, young writer-director Spike Lee gives himself a crucial role as Half-Pint, the newcomer to the Gamma Phi Gamma college fraternity […]

Mar, 10

Predators *** (2010, Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo) – Classic Movie Review 560

A small group of folk – most of them kick-ass fighters with big guns and knives – find themselves weirdly parachuted down onto an alien planet, largely covered in jungle. They soon encounter the famous […]

Dec, 22

Mystic River ***** (2003, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 468

Sean Penn won a well-deserved best actor Oscar as Jimmy Markum, a Boston ex-con who takes the law into his own hands when he thinks one of his childhood buddies, Dave Boyle, has murdered his teenage […]

Dec, 04

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