While he’s best remembered for playing John Coffey in “The Green Mile,” the late Michael Clarke Duncan gave us many memorable roles throughout his career. One of them was as crime lord Wilson Fisk (a.k.a. Kingpin) in the 2003 superhero movie “Daredevil.” This role proved to be a major physical challenge for Duncan as it ...
Jodi Picoult is a great writer, a thorough researcher and a fantastic storyteller – there certainly is no denying those facts. But with Change of Heart, she’s once again fallen a bit short of her potential. As with many of her other recent novels, Change of Heart feels too formulaic to be enjoyable for avid ...
Looks like the Oscar hosting duties will go to Billy Crystal. Now that we know that Eddie Murphy is officially out and the eight time host will be taking the stage again, it’s now time to focus on the upcoming Oscar telecast. Nominations Announcement The nominations announcement is January 24, 2012 and the broadcast is ...
Whether they deal with the consequences of a life gone wrong or the brutality of life in prison, movies about prison life are somehow deeply moving. Maybe it is because we can often relate to the protagonist as in the Shawshank Redemption or because we want to see him or her beat the odds as ...
It is 1932 in the Deep South. Not a good place to be if you are a black man. A strange black man, John Coffey, is sentenced to the electric chair for the grisly rape and murder of twin white girls. John Coffey will not stick up for himself and meekly accepts his sentence. But ...
