Omari Hardwick Archives

Kick-Ass (2010)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 18, 2010Superhero Wannabes

One of several films that came out around the same time on the theme of wannabes without powers playing at being superheroes. Matthew Vaughn delivers a film that falls between witty deflation of and a celebration of the nerdy fantasy of superherodom

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, …

Category: Fantasy

18 April 201010 March 2024 by Roog

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 8, 2019Gonzo Workplace Satire

This directorial debut for rapper Boots Riley is a very funny satire on telemarketing that becomes increasingly more surreal as it goes on. Imagine something like Spike Lee around the point of Do the Right Thing mixed with the absurdist humour of Kurt Vonnegut

Director: Boots Riley

Actors: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 November 20197 March 2025 by Roog

Spell (2020)

Rating: ★

Feb 7, 2023Backwoods Voodoo

Bizarrely overwrought film in which a successful city lawyer is made prisoner by a backwoods voodoo priestess

Director: Mark Tonderai

Actors: Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, Lorrain Burroughs, Kalifa Burton, …

Category: Horror

7 February 20237 February 2023 by Roog

Army of the Dead (2021)

Rating: ★★★

May 29, 2021Zombie Heist Film

Zack Snyder makes a zombie heist film that if nothing else overspills with interesting ideas and a comic energy that goes along way to forgiving Snyder for trashing George Romero in Dawn of the Dead

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Omari Hardwick, …

Category: Horror

29 May 202119 November 2025 by Roog