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Entries Tagged as 'Louis Gossett Jr.'

A Good Man in Africa (1994, Bruce Beresford)

September 15th, 2006 No Comments

A Good Man in Africa is about the British practicing a modified form of the age-old British diplomacy in Africa (duh) in modernity. As such, when I saw John Lithgow’s name in the credits, I did not expect him to be playing a Brit. However, Lithgow does play one and he does so quite poorly. […]

The Punisher (1989, Mark Goldblatt)

May 24th, 2006 No Comments

Back in the late 1980s, The Punisher was part of that period’s comic book movie wave. Most of these films had little to do with Batman’s success and most of them failed, both commercially and artistically. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, of course, succeeded financially. Watching this Punisher film (I have no interest in the new […]