Allen Hughes

Review: 'Broken City' loses its way

2013-01-17 15:32:00

Brian Tucker's "Broken City" screenplay is packed with plot twists, complex sentences and the kind of innuendo that make it seem as if the movie will be a smarter-than-most thriller from the first exchanges. All the talking is no doubt why "Broken City"...

Mark Wahlberg does traffic, weather reports on Philly TV station

2013-01-09 12:21:00

Mark Wahlberg, weatherman? For anyone wishing Wahlberg could step into their shoes for a day, a few Philadelphia morning newscasters got the chance. Along with "Broken City" director Allen Hughes, the "Ted" star did the traffic and weather report for...

The filmmakers behind 'From Hell' take a Biblical road with 'Book of Eli'

2010-01-15 16:33:20

Rapper-actor Shakur arrested in sodomy case

1993-11-20 00:00:00

Controversial rapper and actor Tupac Amaru Shakur was arrested Thursday for forcible sodomy and unlawful imprisonment of a 20-year-old woman at the upscale Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City, police said. The 22-year-old rapper was detained along...

Rapper gets 15 days in jail for attack on film director

1994-03-11 00:00:00

Actor and "gangsta" rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in jail, 15 days on a Caltrans work crew and 30 months probation for his attack last year on film director Allen Hughes. The case marks the second time in seven months that...

Rap singer arrested in slaying

1994-03-10 00:00:00

A member of the Los Angeles "gangsta rap" trio Da Lench Mob has been arrested on suspicion of murder in a slaying last month at a bowling alley in the Athens area, authorities said Wednesday. Terry Gray, 24, who goes by the stage name T-Bone, is the...

Wright walks in, and walks out with 'Broken City'

2013-01-18 07:51:00

Mark Wahlberg stars in "Broken City," opening today, but Jeffrey Wright commits larceny and quietly steals the movie. It's not the first time. Now 47, Wright, one of the great pleasures of American screen acting at the moment, has played his share of...

Carmike Cinema:Discover the secrets of 'Broken City'

2013-01-16 22:22:00

OPENING FRIDAY Broken City �It should come as no surprise that every character in a movie with a title like this is either rotten to the core, or a liar, or a schemer, or the bearer of seriously damaging secrets. What is surprising is that these...

Broken City

2013-01-16 18:30:04

"Broken City" is an evocative and over-ambitious title for a so-so political potboiler that wants to be a gritty, expansive epic of moral and urban decay. A mayor's re-election bid collides with an ex-cop's quest for redemption in director Allen Hughes'...

'Broken City' review: Too easily fixed

2013-01-17 00:00:00

** (out of four) There’s no need to compare other corruption stories to “Broken City” because the new movie from director Allen Hughes (his first without brother and fellow “Menace II Society” director Albert) nods to all of...

On the PR trail with 'Broken City' star Mark Wahlberg

2013-01-16 17:09:00

Say hello to ya mutha for me, OK? Mark Wahlberg gets that a lot. Five years after Andy Samberg's "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" skit on "Saturday Night Live" (if you've never seen it, the title says it all), five years after Wahlberg went on Jimmy...

'Hansel & Gretel' coming to Carmike Friday

2013-01-23 21:57:00

OPENING FRIDAY Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters in 3-D �This version of the fairy tale recasts brother and sister (Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton) as bounty hunters. Surely it’s only a matter of time before the release of "Sleeping Beauty:...

Actor Mark Wahlberg (left) and director Allen Hughes (right) promote their new film, "Broken City," Jan. 7, 2013 at the Peninsula Hotel.

2013-01-16 10:51:00

If we were going to point out a typical underdog, we might say Michael Cera, not Mark Wahlberg. Mark, why do you think you`ve played these roles so frequently? Mark Wahlberg: [Laughs.] Michael Cera. I don't know.

2013-01-16 09:46:00

Mark Wahlberg, weatherman? For anyone wishing Wahlberg could step into their shoes for a day, a few Philadelphia morning newscasters got the chance.

2013-01-11 18:17:00