Tag archive for ‘Films’
The Cop Out — Lakeview Terrace
Samuel L. Jackson as Abel Turner, in “Lakeview Terrace” [/caption]
The Pasadena Weekly has a great article on the “copping out” in the film Lakeview Terrace. No, I have not seen it and I have no plans on seeing it. As Hollyweird is wont to do, I feared the filmmakers would take liberties with the actual [...]
Lakeview Terrace: When The Oppressed Becomes The Oppressor
I was fascinated recently with an article I read in the Pasadena Star News entitled “Larry Wilson: New film not long on neighborly advice.” To be blunt, I had some preconceived notions about the officer in the article being white, not black. When I learned former LAPD officer Irsie Henry is an African American man [...]
