Denzel Washington

Cry, the Beloved Country with Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier. Directed by Hungarian-born Zoltan Korda (The Four Feathers, Sahara) from a screenplay by an uncredited John Howard Lawson – one of the Hollywood Ten – the 1951 British-produced version of…

Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Disappointing box office pairing. Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg movie ‘2 Guns’: Below par box office receipts Aug. 3: A limp “low $20 million” range, is what 2 Guns U.S. distributor Universal claims…

Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt. Directed by Andrew Dominik and toplining one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, Brad Pitt, Killing Them Softly is about to have the worst opening weekend ever of any Pitt star vehicle…

The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Denzel Washington movie. While keeping the framework of the 1962 original, Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (2004) has revamped the plot so as to create parallels between what takes place…

Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, The Vow March 3, ’12, update: According to Box Office Mojo, February 2012 was the best month of February in terms of movie attendance since 2004. On North American screens in February ’04 were Mel Gibson’s…

The Hurricane movie: Denzel Washington as Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Like Stanley Kramer, Norman Jewison has often been dedicated to commercial filmmaking with a socially conscious edge: labor relations in F.I.S.T.; corruption in the U.S. justice system in …And Justice for…

Training Day with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Every few years, the Los Angeles Police Department gets embroiled in one scandal or other. The public is then told that the problem has been caused by a few “bad apples”; the…

Eric Balfour in Greg Strause and Colin Strause’s Skyline Nov. 18, ’10, update: The North American box office was down across the board on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The top ten movies were down nearly 21 percent from (a healthy) Tuesday…

Tony Award winners: Eddie Redmayne in Red, with Alfred Molina. June 13 update: Hollywood took over Broadway at the 2010 Tony Awards. Or almost. Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe and Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, while Oscar winners Denzel Washington and…

Avatar with Sigourney Weaver: Worldwide box office milestone reached. ‘Avatar’ passes $2 billion milestone worldwide, to surpass ‘Titanic’ in U.S. & Canada – but not in ticket sales Jan. 31 update: Avatar‘s estimated weekend (Jan. 29-31) gross was at the…

Inside Man offers a long day’s journey into nought: I’ve seen little of Spike Lee’s oeuvre. As far as I’m concerned, the overblown portrayal of ethnic relations in Do the Right Thing, which remains Lee’s most acclaimed film, makes the…