Terrorists have the memory of an elephant and a burning need for revenge. Just as in “Die Hard: With a Vengeance,” the antagonist in the action-thriller Taken 2 has a score to settle with the protagonist, who just so happens to be a retired law enforcer. As you may recall in “Taken,” Bryan Mills (Neeson)…
Who said Tom Cruise was a has-been? Truthfully, I probably did, but hot off of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” he’s back in the actioner Jack Reacher. Based on the book “One Shot” by Lee Child, Cruise takes the lead as an ex-cop turned private investigator who gets involved with a murder case involving a…
You like rap music? How about crazy-ass kung-fu flicks? Well, I got something for you: Universal Pictures combines the two with the pulse-quickening The Man with the Iron Fists. The plot of a blacksmith crafting weapons so his village can protect itself from warring clans shouldn’t matter much; what does matter is it full of…
Pat Solatano has hit rock bottom. He lives with his parents, he’s divorced and been institutionalized. But tomorrow is a new day and it may very well be better than yesterday. In the new movie Silver Linings Playbook things do get better for Pat, thanks in part to Tiffany, a young woman with her own…
The second trailer for the upcoming remake of Total Recall has come online. It rehashes what we already know — Quaid (Farrell), a man who has a lingering feeling there is something more to his life, goes to a memory-implanting service and finds that it is actually the life he has been leading that has…
Looper, the new sci-fi thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis is going to be a interesting one. In the future, time travel exists and is illegal, which leaves it open for abuse by the bad guys. Gordon-Levitt is one of these bad guys. He is a hitman in the past, who is hired by…
The bond between a boy and his dog is a strong one. So when Victor’s dog Sparky goes to the big kennel in the sky, Victor brings him back to life. There are always complications, however, and in the case of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie — an interesting take on the Frankenstein story — those complications…
