Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Bill Duke-directed Deep Cover at 30… The year is 1992. A second revolution in black cinema was already underway after Spike Lee’s fresh and inventive hits like Do The Right Thing and She’s Gotta Have It had broken open doorways. That first wave in the 70s, with a boom […]
Boyz n the Hood at 30: John Singleton’s blistering debut still hits home
George Nash revisits Boyz n the Hood on its 30th anniversary… In 1986, four boys set off to find a dead body. Along the way, they skip jovially along railroad tracks, wade through leach-infested waters and sleep blissfully under the stars. Stand By Me, director Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body, is […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 11 – Event Horizon (1997)
Event Horizon, 1997. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Starring Laurence Fisburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Kathleen Quinlan, Jason Isaacs and Sean Pertwee. SYNOPSIS: Seven years after its disappearance, the science vessel the Event Horizon reappears in orbit around the planet Neptune. The crew of the Lewis and Clark is sent to investigate […]