William Fichtner

Movie Review: Traffik (2018)

Writer/director/co-producer Deon Taylor (“Meet the Blacks”) oversees Traffik, a disposable mystery-suspense project with all the anticipation and edginess of sitting in traffic on the inner loop of I-495 West outside Washington D.C. His pseudo-tense thriller incorporates all the clichéd conventions imaginable: Pretty people in peril, normally smart people doing dumb things, remote romantic getaway shot…

Movie Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

In a world in which sequels appear decades after the original film (such as “Bambi II,” “Fantasia 2000,” “The Wicker Tree,” “Easy Rider: The Ride Back,” “TRON: Legacy,” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” among others), let’s just say the results are, well, not very good. People usually do not want to wait that long…

Movie Trailer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Action and effects are aplenty in the latest trailer for the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as expected). Also included, however, is some of the silliness and curiosity of the four reptilian brothers named after famed artists, Raphael, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, that the Eastman & Laird comics stressed above all else. Whether…

Movie Review: Elysium (2013)

Neill Blomkamp can surely write and direct an original science fiction movie as evidenced in the visually captivating “District 9.” But with the ante raised — a true Hollywood budget, a bona fide movie star starring and a coveted summer release spot — can he deliver again? With Elysium he proves he’s got the imaginative…

Movie Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)

If you have missed Captain Jack Sparrow since seeing him in the last installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (2011’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”), fear not, because he makes his long awaited return to the silver screen in what has apparently been dubbed The Lone Ranger. And luckily for director…

Movie Trailer #2: The Lone Ranger (2013)

Tonto speaks! And he sounds a lot like Johnny Depp . . . In the new full trailer for Disney’s western actioner The Lone Ranger, Tonto plays a more prominent role, even uttering the iconic “kemosabe” several times. This trailer, which is embedded above, explains in detail how the Lone Ranger was born (murdered family;…

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