"It was the most beautiful and hellacious casting process you could imagine."

Fox’s midseason drama Empire, created by Lee Daniels (The Butler) is all about the money, power, and backstabbing.  In Daniels’s words: “black Dynasty.”  Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) is a studio head with enough clout to cancel meetings with the President, but he has no …

[With the upcoming release of his new film Gone Girl, I’m taking a look back at the work of director David Fincher.  These articles contain spoilers.] Across his filmography, David Fincher’s work has been noted as dark, foreboding, chilly, cynical, …

No Good Deed is not a good film by any stretch of the imagination.  Yet, I would recommend it highly to almost every single one of my friends.  I’m not typically responsive to the “so bad it’s good” mindset, and …

Screen Gems will release director Sam Miller‘s (Luther) new thriller No Good Deed tomorrow.  The film stars Idris Elba as an escaped convict with a dangerous past who makes his way into the home of a devoted wife (Taraji P. Henson) and her …