Here are the lessons we can all take from “Shadowboxer,” Lee Daniels’ gruesome and supremely disjointed foray into the world of hired assassins: 1. Even Helen Mirren is not powerful enough to save ...
THE CENTRAL conceit of “Shadowboxer” is that middle-aged Rose (Helen Mirren) and her younger African American companion, Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.), are a mom-and-stepson killing team. At home, they ...
There are, perhaps, more desirable parental candidates than Mikey, the buffed-up, scowling hit man played by Cuba Gooding Jr. For that matter, there are also couples more comprehensible than Gooding ...
Filmmaker Lee Daniels seems to head right for the fire. First, he produced Monster's Ball, the story of a black woman who falls in love with a racist death row guard. Despite the odds, the film was a ...
There are, perhaps, more desirable parental candidates than Mikey, the buffed-up, scowling hit man played by Cuba Gooding Jr. For that matter, there are also couples more comprehensible than Gooding ...
“Shadowboxer” is a sad, warped tale that pairs a young man and his stepmother as lovers, whose lives are forever entwined after she murders his father. Sadder and more warped still is the fact that ...
Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.