The #1 movie over the past weekend (9/19-9/21) was Neil LaBute’s latest movie, Lakeview Terrace. The movie came in with $15,004,672 in its first weekend…which for a movie being released in September is pretty good. I was actually looking forward to this movie for several weeks based on the trailers, but when I saw that LaBute was directing, I got even more excited (he is the director of some very provocative movies like 1997’s In the Company of Men, 1998’s Your Friends & Neighbors, 2000’s Nurse Betty, and 2003’s The Shape of Things. I’m trying to forgive him for 2002’s boring Gwyneth Paltrow movie Possession though.) Samuel L. Jackson is one bad mutha (shut yo mouth!) that you don’t want to mess with…especially when he is a police officer who doesn’t agree with the lifestyle of his new interracial neighbors, played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. My girlfriend thought that Jackson was the most evil villain she has ever seen him play (has she ever seen Jules Winnfield from 1994’s Pulp Fiction?) I wouldn’t go that far, but he did command the screen. I highly recommend it. (more…)