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Entries from SFist tagged with 'wesleysnipes'

January 25, 2008

Jesus, have you seen those ads for this movie "Hancock"? Is it us, or is there something insaaaaaanely racist about them? Let's break it down: Will Smith plays an African-American superhero -- the first big-screen African-American superhero since, um, Robert Townsend in 1993's Meteor Man? Oh, that's right, there was that black sidekick in "The Incredibles." And Halle Berry as Storm. And Wesley Snipes as Blade ... so, okay, there've been four black superheroes in......

Continue Reading "Is America Ready for a Black Hero? No? Well, How About a Black Antihero?"

December 3, 2004

SFist always feels vindicated when our nemesis, the Chron's Mick LaSalle, disses a movie we're interested in. As we might have mentioned before, he is our Bizarro-self when it comes to films, as everything he feels we feel in exactly the opposite. This week's tiny triumph of the SFist spirit (and our Big Budget Pick of the Week)is his dislike of Closer, which we have been (uncharacteristically, since there aren't any car chases, zombies, or......

Continue Reading "SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend"

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