Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James GandolfiniDirected By: Gregory Hoblit
A powerhouse performance by Denzel Washington fuels Training Day, a brutal urban police drama in which a rookie narcotics cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad. Washington plays veteran detective Alonzo Harris, a self-proclaimed "wolf among wolves", eager to teach his rookie partner Jake (Ethan Hawke) that normal rules don't apply on the mean streets of Los ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris YulinDirected By: Antoine Fuqua
In the typical Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer mould(the partnership yielded Top Gun and Days of Thunder, among many other films), this 1995 drama is a combination of one-dimensional but enjoyable performances, lots of high-tech nonsense taking place onscreen, and mechanistic movie-making at its loudest and most seizure-inducing. Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington play nuclear ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza, Viggo MortensenDirected By: Tony Scott
Manufacturer: Hollywood Pictures Home VideoStarring: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza, Viggo MortensenDirected By: Tony Scott
Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen FinleyDirected By: Jonathan Demme
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt DamonDirected By: Edward Zwick
A sleeper star vehicle for Denzel Washington Ricochet is a campy revenge thriller in the Brian De Palma style. Director Russell Mulcahy (The Shadow) makes the most of the opportunity to showcase two great actors in an exaggerated story of cops, robbers, and revenge. Washington plays a cop who becomes a rising legal star as a result of arresting master criminal John Lithgow, who ...
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay WagnerDirected By: Russell Mulcahy
Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony GoldwynDirected By: Alan J. Pakula
A high-profile action/exploitation thriller set in the late 20th century, The Siege is really a fantasy that extrapolates from major terrorist bombings, such as the one at the World Trade Centre. Denzel Washington is FBI special agent Hubbard, "Hub" to his friends, whose anti-terrorist task force must track down the terrorist cells responsible for a spate of bombings in New York. His ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, Sami BouajilaDirected By: Edward Zwick
