John Witherspoon

Wednesday January 12, 2000      One of my chief regrets of the previous year was that I wasn't able to get to as many of last August's Urbanworld Film Festival screenings as I would have liked. Still, the few films I did see at that annual Manhattan-...

Friday October 13, 2000      Of the many dimwitted ego-trippers and self-deluded goofballs who pop up repeatedly on "Saturday Night Live," the one character who seemed least likely to carry a feature-length film on his own is Leon, a.k.a. "The Ladies...

2 stars (out of 4) Success and longevity can eventually turn any movie star's frowns into smiles--even if the frowns are what made them famous. Ice Cube, one-time hard-case rapper and hip-hop revolutionary of NWA, shows his warm, kid-friendly side in...

In "Little Man," the Wayans brothers try to take dumb comedy to new heights, but they wind up shrinking the laughs along with one of their main characters, dwarfish criminal Calvin Sims (Marlon Wayans). Following in the wake of their last picture, the...