Here are the lessons we can all take from “Shadowboxer,” Lee Daniels’ gruesome and supremely disjointed foray into the world of hired assassins: 1. Even Helen Mirren is not powerful enough to save ...

Filmmaker Lee Daniels seems to head right for the fire. First, he produced Monster's Ball, the story of a black woman who falls in love with a racist death row guard. Despite the odds, the film was a ...

THE CENTRAL conceit of “Shadowboxer” is that middle-aged Rose (Helen Mirren) and her younger African American companion, Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.), are a mom-and-stepson killing team. At home, they ...

There are, perhaps, more desirable parental candidates than Mikey, the buffed-up, scowling hit man played by Cuba Gooding Jr. For that matter, there are also couples more comprehensible than Gooding ...

There are, perhaps, more desirable parental candidates than Mikey, the buffed-up, scowling hit man played by Cuba Gooding Jr. For that matter, there are also couples more comprehensible than Gooding ...