I guess I can consider myself lucky - I have never had too dreadful neighbors. This week I get to learn what that might be like from the thriller that is "Lakeview Terrace" where Samuel L. Jackson plays a single dad of two and LAPD officer, who terrorizes his new neighbors by ways of his police badge, putting his own ideals above the law.

Neighborly issues are as old as the ages, look back at the Ten Commandments and you find a few notes about how to treat thy neighbor. And what makes for even better drama then breaking the basic laws of Judeo-Christian religions? Bad cops, of course! "Lakeview Terrace" is chockfull of all these stimulating ingredients. So before heading out to catch some thrills you hope don’t follow you home from the theater, take a gander at these gripping tales of people who just can’t (or don’t want to) get along...

A TIME TO KILL (1996)
Samuel L. Jackson, man of a thousand movies, plays both sides of the terror siege in this ditty. In this thriller, based on John Grisham’s novel, Sam Jackson plays Carl Lee Haily whose daughter is raped by 2 Southern Rednecks. With disbelief in the system, Carl Lee takes matters into his own hands by killing both men in cold blood inside the court house as they are being walked to trial. Read more...