Inside Man is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more .. Read more
| Starring | Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe |
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| Director | Spike Lee |
| Genres | Thriller |
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I don’t know at what age the NYPD retires its homicide detectives, and no one ever comes out and says that Danny Glover line, “I’m getting too old for this shit”, but sexagenarians Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are looking a little long in the tooth here, as partners whose case load starts to shrink when one unconvicted scumbag after another is handily dispatched by a mystery serial killer. Well, the mystery is a moot point actually, as the movie begins with De Niro’ Read more
This season, the new black is black. Going into the Academy Awards period it's clearer than ever there has been a sea-change in the status of African-Americans in Hollywood movies. The Academy's history is self-evidently shameful. When Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Glory in 1989, he became only the third black actor to take home an Oscar. The others were Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939) and Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963). In... Read more