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Stars: Gary Frank, Tony Todd, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Stacey Dash, Deon Richmond, Frances Foster, Tiger Haynes, Charles Randall | Written by Stuart Kaminsky | Directed by Peter Manoogian

As cult cinema continues to enjoy a well-deserved reappraisal in the high-definition era, Enemy Territory arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video with the fanfare of a long-lost treasure finally uncovered. A lean, adrenaline-charged thriller that once slipped through the cracks of mainstream attention, Enemy Territory stands tall today as a pulpy, hard-edged time capsule – part siege thriller, part urban horror story, and entirely of its era.

Directed by Peter Manoogian and written by Stuart Kaminsky, the film follows Barry (Gary Frank), a mild-mannered insurance salesman whose bad day turns apocalyptic after he’s sent to a decaying high-rise in New York’s Alphabet City to close a routine deal. Trapped inside the building after dark, Barry becomes the target of a...

Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his home in New York City. He was 90.

His death was announced by his wife Diana Ward.

Ward had already begun a solid New York stage acting career in the 1950s and ’60s – including Off Broadway roles in The Iceman Cometh and on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun – when, according to The New York Times, he wrote a 1966 editorial for that newspaper headlined “American Theater: For Whites Only?” The article called for the establishment of a Black repertory theater company. Turner wrote, “Not in the future…but now!”

A year later the Ford Foundation awarded a $434,000 grant to create the Negro Ensemble Company with Ward as artistic director, along with Robert Hooks and Gerald S. Krone in other leadership roles.

The Company...

THR to look back at her career highlights. "I would say my career began with high points." She speaks fondly of the months after her sophomore year at Howard University when she spent the summer with the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. "This was during its heyday. The actors in that company were Moses Gunn, Hattie Winston, Rosalind Cash, Frances Foster, Esther Rolle," she says. "Robert Hooks was one of the directors of the theater. Douglas Turner Ward ...

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Welcome to The Ultimate Silver Screen Mixtape, a collection of many all time best musical moments in cinema. What I’m striving for here is an overhaul of moments that are elevated, punctuated or immortalized by the film’s soundtrack. That said; let’s jump right in!

I’ve only heard one Sam Cooke song in my life but I think many, if not most of you, will agree that “A Change Is Gonna Come” is an immensely moving piece of music on its lonesome. In the United States, it has been appropriated as symbolic of the Civil Rights era, and its not surprising that Mr. Cooke wrote and performed it precisely as a response to several incidents that beset him in those middle years of the movement. Pieces like “A Change Is Gonna Come” have consequences when contrasted with images, and Spike Lee certainly knew the stakes when he...

When movie lovers think of a lone hero trapped in a high-rise controlled by bad guys, the classic Bruce Willis actioner Die Hard comes to mind. Released in 1988, the film made Willis more than just that guy from Moonlighting and started a new genre, the contained space action movie. Soon other films were copying Die Hard's spatial premise with thrillers of their own that became “Die Hard on a _____”. Die Hard wasn't the first film to have this premise – The Big Clock (1948) later remade as No Way Out (1987) comes to mind – just the first to do it really well. About a year prior, Charlie Band, who would strike gold with the Dtv Puppet Master horror films, produced a small action movie set in New York about an insurance salesman who finds himself in a Die Hard situation with a local gang. Garry Frank plays Barry, an insurance salesman who's...