Review: Terminator Genysis
Terminator Genysis is the fifth installment in the Terminator series. Making a five of anything is hard to do and even harder in film. For every Fast Five there’s at least four times as many Seed of...
View ArticleReview: Hitman: Agent 47
Hitman: Agent 47 is a reboot of 2007’s Hitman, a film based on a video game series about a genetically modified hitman. He’s the best ‘Excellence of Execution’ since Brett Hart. In this reboot, the...
View ArticleReview: The Last Witch Hunter
There was a time when Hollywood thought Vin Diesel could be the next action star (see: XXX, Pitch Black). In recent years, Diesel and his trademark slow-growly voice have been synonymous with the Fast...
View ArticleReview: Chi-Raq
Spike Lee has never been one to shy away from tough issues in his films. From School Daze, to Do the Right Thing, to Jungle Fever, to Bamboozled, Spike was known for having his pulse on what’s...
View ArticleReview: Point Break (2015)
1991’s Point Break is a guilty pleasure for a lot of film lovers. Keanu Reeves plays an ex college football star/FBI agent, and Patrick Swayze plays a surfer/bank robber. Reeves and Swayze have never...
View ArticleReview: Zoolander 2
Making a comedy sequel is difficult. They’re sometimes a box office success, often entertaining, but rarely as funny as the first. There’s another category that Zoolander 2 fits in – disastrous....
View ArticleReview: X-Men: Apocalypse
2012’s The Bourne Legacy was the fourth installment in the Bourne franchise. Legacy was similar to previous Bourne films in tone and narrative, but was a forgettable movie that was equally...
View ArticleReview: The Legend of Tarzan
When I first saw Warner Bros Pictures The Legend of Tarzan announced, I thought “Why?” Then the casts slowly rolled out – Director David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P1 & P2),...
View ArticleReview: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mean Tell No Tales
2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a fun fantasy film filled with great special effects, an enjoyable cast, and it introduced audiences to the eccentric Captain Jack...
View ArticleReview: The Snowman
On paper, The Snowman should be an amazing film: It’s based on a bestselling novel by Jo Nesbo. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Val Kilmer, and J.K Simons. It follows two...
View ArticleReview: The Commuter
At this point, Liam Neeson trying to save his family while using a cell phone could be its own genre. The Commuter is about a train commuter asked by a stranger to do “one little thing” that leads to a...
View ArticleReview: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom picks up three years after the events of Jurassic World. An active volcano on Isla Nublar has made things critical. Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) leads a Dinosaur...
View ArticleReview: Mile 22
Mile 22 might be one of the worst films of 2018, and that’s not hyperbole. The plot is simple – An asset has classified information. A highly trained military team has a short amount of time to...
View ArticleReview: Dark Phoenix
In 2011, Fox rebooted their X-Men franchise with a younger cast. This story set the X-Men in 1962 and focused on the origins of Charles Xavier and Magneto. Eight years and three movies later, our...
View ArticleReview: Killerman
The poster for Killerman features Liam Hemsworth standing under the glow of florescent lights while angrily pointing a gun at someone not pictured in the frame. This stylish looking poster makes...
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