Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to be cast in Apocalypse Now and was fourteen when shooting began, spending more than a year in the Philippines on that production.
He was nominated for Best Actor for What’s Love Got to Do with It, playing Ike Turner, and has said he took the role reluctantly.
Morpheus in The Matrix is the performance most people know, delivered with a formality that makes the exposition sound like scripture, which is exactly what the film needs.
Boyz n the Hood and Deep Cover are the essential earlier work, and he won a Tony for August Wilson’s Two Trains Running.
Caroline DhavernasHannibal's pilot rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Bryan Fuller made a network procedural about a man who reconstructs murders in his head and put it on NBC at ten o'clock, where it lasted three seasons and…
David CarusoThe CSI Trilogy rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three separately produced network shows ran one continuing investigation across three consecutive nights in 2009, with three production teams, three visual styles and one case. Nobody has attempted…
Carrie-Anne MossThe Matrix sequels rate 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shot back to back and released six months apart, they answer questions the first film was stronger for leaving open, and they contain two of the best action…
Christopher WalkenKing of New York is Abel Ferrara's 1990 American crime film. The work is one of the principal independent crime films of the early 1990s and one of the strongest Walken lead performances of his substantial filmography.
Dennis HopperCoppola's 1979 Vietnam Heart of Darkness. Sheen, Brando, Duvall, Hopper.
Bill SkarsgardKeanu Reeves as the retired assassin. Action choreography that reshaped contemporary American action cinema.
Evangeline LillyEvangeline Lilly's Wasp introduction through earned narrative foundation. Ghost's underdeveloped sympathetic antagonist.
Carrie-Anne MossThe Wachowskis accomplished something that almost never happens in blockbuster cinema: they made a philosophy lecture into one of the most viscerally entertaining action films ever made, and the philosophy and the action are the same thing. This review is…
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