#ernest r. dickerson

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Bianca Lawson

Bones (2001)

Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson

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[gatutor]

Snoop Dogg-Pam Grier "Bones" 2001, de Ernest R. Dickerson.

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Surviving the Game will be released on Blu-ray on November 7 via Shout Studios. The 1994 action movie is loosely based on Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game."

Ernest R. Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Bulletproof) directs from a script by Eric Bernt (Romeo Must Die, The Hitcher). Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, William McNamara, Gary Busey, and F. Murray Abraham star.

Special features are in progress and will be announced at a later date.

Ice-T is Mason, a homeless man recruited by a band of wealthy hunters to lead an expedition into the Pacific Northwest. But on the first day of the hunt, he discovers a lethal surprise... he's the prey.

Pre-order Surviving the Game.

[augustheir]

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) dir. Ernest R. Dickerson, cinematography by Rick Bota

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On April 15, 1984, Surviving the Game debuted in the United States.

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MALCOLM X (1992)

Dir: Spike Lee DP: Ernest R. Dickerson

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Billy Zane in Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (Ernest R. Dickerson, 1995)

Cast: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Thomas Haden Church, C.C.H. Pounder, Brenda Bakke, Dick Miller, Gary Farmer, John Kassir (voice). Screenplay: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, Mark Bishop. Cinematography: Rick Bota. Production design: Christiaan Wagener, Gregory S. Melton. Film editing: Stephen Lovejoy. Music: Edward Shearmur. 

I was going to say that failure to access the 10-year-old boy in me kept me from enjoying Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight, but then I remembered that when I was 10 years old I thought the Tales From the Crypt comic books were repulsive trash. So maybe I really enjoyed it more than that 10-year-old would have, which isn't saying much. It's still trash, but I've seen many movies that repulsed me more. There's a tongue-in-cheek element in its slimy rotting horrors (if there's a tongue to put in a cheek or a cheek to put one in) that doesn't exactly redeem it, but at least kept me watching. And it suggests that we have come to a point in the post-Christian era that what would once be regarded as blasphemous is now only a plot device: namely, the use of the blood of Jesus as a horror movie gimmick. Mostly, it made me feel a little sorry for the actors who have to go through their paces, trying to act but knowing that anything they do is going to be chopped up in the editing and stirred into a mess of special effects. Billy Zane as the demonic Collector and William Sadler as his heroic antagonist are the nominal leads, but Jada Pinkett Smith comes off best as the ex-con on work release who labors in the boarding house where most of the action takes place. She manages to create a character we can root for, which is all the otherwise well-worn plot needs. The frame story in which the Crypt Keeper (voiced by John Kassir) introduces things is unnecessary and mainly serves to promote the HBO series from which it's a theatrical spinoff. 

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Movie #37 of 2023: Malcolm X

“By any means necessary.”

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On location filming for Juice - Baltimore, MD  1991

left to right:

Khalil Kain (Raheem), Omar Epps (Q), Jermaine Hopkins (Steel), Tupac Shakur (Bishop) RIP

Juice  (1992)

Dir. by Ernest R. Dickerson

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Stupid Fly's Gold Rush Podcast, Episode 8 (Season 1 Finale): "Is 'Juice' The Most Hip-Hop Movie Of All Time?": LISTEN HERE

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Bianca Lawson

Bones (2001)

Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson

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[randomrichards]

SURVIVING THE GAME:

Bitter homeless man

Is hunted by rich a-holes

Trapped in the forest

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New Horror 2023 - Day 30

"If the thing could follow him it was of no use to go away."

"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

I do like an indescribable Thing that just comes around and starts annoying the hell out of someone.

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"I just take a small token--something nice."

"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

A name can be buried just as easily as a body.

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"What it is and what it will be, my brotha."

Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Snoop Dogg couldn't quite stick the landing, but everyone else gets us through it well enough.

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My ★★★½ review of Bulletproof (1996): https://boxd.it/6QJE8l