Browsing: Denzel Washington

It’s wise that auteur director Joel Coen chose to lean into the stunning visuals of his adaptation of William Shakespeare’s…

Every so often, an adaptation of a Shakespeare work comes along that leaves us questioning the decision making, but also cheering in delight. The most recent example would have to be the gender-swapped The Tempest starring Dame Helen Mirren, but this next one sounds even more awesome. Joel Cohen is reportedly working on a version of the-play-that-must-not-be-named […]

Denzel Washington’s passion project shows that when he has a vision, he is willing to take the long road if it means getting it right. Fences is a powerful and brilliantly acted film adaptation of the late playwright August Wilson’s stage production about an African-American family living in Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s.

The original Magnificent Seven is a classic of modern western cinema.  The cast was no small thing, a collection of actors at the top of their game in 1960.  Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and James Coburn headed the film about a group of gunmen hired to protect a […]

You guys know how we feel about remakes by now, right?  Why tell the same story again and again when supposedly we’re currently in a creative Renaissance for film?  We’re talking to YOU, Hollywood. I will admit, there have been exceptions to this “I dislike remakes/reboots”, like Rise of The Planet Of The Apes, and Battlestar Galactica, […]