Sable Lit Reviews

Last week I decided to take a break from the grind of pursuing freelance work to go see Soul Men with Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson. It was really surreal to watch a new movie where two of the actors had recently passed away.  I mentioned in previous posts how difficult it is to [...]

Much like the books we read, the movies we watch also carry themes. While some creative forms are designed just to amuse, I truly enjoy those that enlighten and inform as they entertain. I suppose a movie or a book has to have some kind of purpose not just for the reader but for the [...]

As a writer, the way I watch movies will never be the same. After finding out that Lakeview Terrace, the latest Samuel L. Jackson flick produced by Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment, had interracial themes, I decided to go see it for blog material’s sake.              The movie had caught my interest anyway, I [...]

As I mentioned before, it was a Jet magazine article about Kerry Washington that lead me to see Lakeview Terrace, her new movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and produced by Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment Management.              In short the movie is about a young interracial couple who is terrorized by Abel Turner, a [...]

 Well it happened again with Oakbrook Entertainment’s Lakeview Terrace. While I think you can’t get much better than Samuel L Jackson for a lunatic socio-path cop, the only glimpses of this movie I caught were his menacing glances and creepy laughter. Until I read an article on Kerry Washington an African American actor and co-star [...]