Marlon Brando introduces an impeccable storyline which thoroughly introduces the concept of the Liar to Western Cinema in his Western One Eyed Jacks. Unambivalent about portraying himself as a villain, a lousy reckless fiend who has a way with getting his way (both with men by gun and woman by pleasure), Mr. Brando moves the film-goer into demanding justice through the breach of trust between his....

What is justice? The perennial query into the self-examination of human goodness arrives at such a cinematic climax with the splendorous depiction of inmates which stage a civil protest while interned with the historical portrayal in the film Attica. It is in this emphasis of their ability to affirm their basic human rights, of being more than just chattel confined into prison pens, that forms a....

What people will do for money. What people will do for power.   It is the unfortunate inadvertence of the protagonist, Mr. Easy Rawlins, portrayed by Mr. Denzel Washington to find work in a vulnerable position of needing to keep up with the mortgage on his home in a distinctly African-American Los Angeles neighborhood – likely West Adams or South Central Los Angeles. Indeed, the....