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 ...

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 ...

When Joe Louis took only 124 seconds to knock out Max Schmeling in 1938, it was one of the most historic sports triumphs of the 20th century. Schmeling, a reluctant representative of Nazi Germany, had ...

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 ...

“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 ...