It was considerate that director Bradley Parker (a visual technician in films such as “Lake Placid” and “Fight Club“) followed a similar path as “Cabin in the Woods” director Drew Goddard did in turning the old teenage slasher/horror/mutant genre on its head with Chernobyl Diaries. However, while Goddard and company opted for an intricate, multi-layered…
The Witness Protection Program doesn’t always keep the bad guys away. In Open Road Films’ Hit and Run, bank robbery getaway driver Charlie gets found by his buddy that he helped get locked away (and apparently enabled his raping, as a running gag makes mention of). As the title implies, there is a lot of…
The first go round in December was just a tease as to what was to come with The Expendables 2. Today Lionsgate opened the lid with the first full trailer and it’s got a shitload of explosions in it. Very 80’s-like explosions preceded by very 80’s-like action. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a fun watch…
I’ve done so many reviews for those “only one man can help” blockbusters that I’ve exhausted every possible way of introducing them. To some, that might’ve been evident in my piece on “Lockout,” which featured a lazy examination into the ‘80s action hero. In my defense, there are only so many ways you could describe…
A three-minute long spoilerish trailer for the sci-fi horror pic Prometheus has gone viral today. In it, the alien intelligence that beckoned us (meaning humans) to the farthest reaches of the universe prove to not be friendly. As a matter of fact, it seems they somehow want to use us to repopulate their species and…
I think we can all agree that Pete and Debbie from “Knocked Up” stole the show from Ben and Alison when they were on-screen together. So why not give them their own project? It comes in the form of This is 40 and the premise is . . . you guessed it, a change of…
There are some good things to say about the newest film by director James McTeigue (“Ninja Assassin,” “V For Vendetta“), a combination of “Sleepy Hollow,” “Saw,” “Se7en” and the latter-day Sherlock Holmes films. First, it acquaints the uninitiated with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most creative and tortured writers (Poe, while…
