Beowulf, just as bad as you remembered from high school. A long time ago I had to read Beowulf in my senior English class in high school and we had to memorize certain portions for extra credit. I didn’t care much for the story back then and I really didn’t care much […]

American Gangster, the free enterprise system at work. In 1969 Frank Lucas, Denzel Washington, is the driver and henchman for Bumpy Johnson, the drug lord of Harlem. In reality Bumpy is just the front for the Italian mob. Frank watches and learns from Bumpy, when Bumpy dies, heart failure, in a wholesale […]

Gone Baby Gone, if you do the wrong thing for the right reason is it still wrong? A child disappears in the mean streets of Boston, the child’s Aunt Beatrice, Amy Madigan, is hell bent on finding her niece while the child’s mother, Amy Ryan, is less than enthusiastic. The aunt hires Patrick […]