Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his tidy whitey underwear. But there’s much more to this hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of […]
Blowout
Brian De Palma’s thriller is something of a homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterful Blowup, though there are hints of Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoia-inducing Conversation sprinkled throughout. John Travolta plays a sound-effects man who witnesses what appears to be a tragic car accident killing a presidential candidate. The audio tape he happened to be recording at […]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier […]
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a temperamental young man with a violent past who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher (Viola Davis), was arrested and put in jail where she gave birth to him. Antwone was placed in an orphanage […]
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