187 (ONE EIGHT SEVEN) (1997)

 

Directed By: Kevin Reynolds Written By: Scott Yagemann Cinematography: Ericson Core Editor: Stephen Semel

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Karina Arroyave, Tony Plana, Lobo Sebastian, Jack Kehler, Jonah Rooney, Method Man, Richard Riehle, Antwon Tanner 

15 months after being stabbed 9 times by a student at work as a high school teacher in NYC, Mr. Garfield is working in LA as a substitute teacher come full-time. He refuses to be a victim anymore.

PEPPERMINT (2018)

Directed By: Pierre Norel 
Written By: Chad St. John 
Cinematography By: David Lanzenberg 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 


Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Annie Ilonzeh, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Tyson Ritter, Richard Cabral 


An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

KEANU (2016)

Directed By: Peter Atencio 
Written By: Jordan Peele & Alex Rubens 
Cinematography By: Jas Shelton 
Editor: Nicholas Monsour 


Cast: Keegan Michael-Key, Jordan Peele, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Will Forte, Nia Long, Rob Huebel, Luis Guzman, Jason Mitchell

*Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

STATEN ISLAND SUMMER (2015)

Directed By: Rhys Thomas 
Written By: Colin Jost 
Cinematography By: Anthony Wolberg 
Editor: Steve Edwards & Adam Epstein 


Cast: Graham Phillips, Zach Pearlman, Ashley Greene, Cecily Strong, Bobby Moynihan, John DeLuca, Vincent Pastore, Mike O’Brien, Fred Armisen, Katie Cockrell, Kellie Cockrell, Jim Gaffigan, Will Forte, Kate Walsh, Gina Gershon, Penny Marshall, Method Man, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Mary Birdsong, Hassan Johnson

BELLY (1998)

Written & Directed By: Hype Williams
Story By: Nas, Hype Williams & Anthony Bodden
Director Of Photography: Malik Hassan Sayeed
Edited By: David Leonard
Cast: Nas, DMX, T-Boz, Method Man, Power, Tyrin Turner, Taral Hicks, Frank Vincent, Kurt Loder