Movie Review: Hardcore Henry (2015)
The film has the personality of a Playstation best-seller, scenes like the strip club shootout and rooftop royal rumbles seem like clips straight from Grand Theft Auto 5 or Far Cry.
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Movie Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
At one time, DC ruled the super hero genre uncontested, from the creation of “Superman” in 1938, to the Caped Crusader’s debut a year later. Both ruled short film and TV kingdoms from “Adventures of Superman” (with George Reeves) in the 1950s to the campy, but entertaining “Batman” (starring Adam West, which ran from 1966-68)….
Movie Review: All Hell Breaks Loose (2014)
All Hell Breaks Loose opens like so many other movies; a group of friends pounding beers, making out, and blasting rock music around a bonfire in the woods. Within minutes, however, this modern grindhouse flick becomes unlike anything you’ve ever seen. A gang of menacing bikers rolls up, tattooed and black bandana-ed and trailing a…
Movie Review: The Divergent Series – Allegiant (2016)
Every now and then, Hollywood suffers from fatigue — the hot new thing that catches everyone’s attention and is insanely popular gets reproduced over and over and over until it’s everywhere, and everyone loves it even more . . . until they don’t. Then, there are the last few gasps of a trend until it…
Movie Review: The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
I wasn’t there of course when the concept for this movie, The Brothers Grimsby, was bandied about by writers (including Sacha Baron Cohen), but I can only imagine it went kind of like this: “Hey, I’ve got an idea about two brothers who were separated by adoption as children. One goes on to become a…
Movie Trailer #2: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
There’s been a Spider-Man sighting! That’ll be the headline from this second trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: Civil War, but there’s more to it than that. For one Black Panther is a bona fide bad ass. He gets himself a healthy does of screen time in this to show his speed, agility and strength….
Movie Review: London Has Fallen (2016)
While the plot is increasingly predictable, it is impressive to see the boldness of this franchises action.