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Movie Review: Killing Them Softly (2012)

Director Andrew Dominik’s third feature film after “Chopper” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” 2012’s Killing Them Softly is a brutal tale of mob politics based on George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel “Cogan’s Trade.” On top of being a gritty gangster picture, the film provides a thoughtful commentary on America’s…

Movie Review: Looper (2012)

Stop me if you’ve heard the premise of Looper before. 2044. Time travel hasn’t been invented yet. Fast forward thirty years later, when time-travel is illegal and used by future gangsters to dispatch targets. The target is bound, hooded and sent back to a one-way encounter with a Looper — hired guns in 2044 making…

Movie Trailer: Bullet to the Head (2013)

Not to be outdone by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s trailer for “The Last Stand,” Warner Bros. has released the first theatrical trailer for Sylvester Stallone’s Bullet to the Head. Based on a French graphic novel, it marries a hitman (Stallone) and a cop (Sung Kang) both of whom are out for revenge on the one who killed…

Movie Trailer: Looper (2012)

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…

Movie Trailer: Killer Joe (2011)

What some people wouldn’t do for cash. In Killer Joe dimestore drug dealer Chris puts a hit out on his mother for her life insurance policy and offers up his sister to the hitman as collateral. In his defense, though, if he doesn’t come up with some cash he’s a dead man. But maybe death…

Movie Review: Killer Elite (2011)

Killer Elite is saddled with a vague and forgettable title but at least it sounds more lethal than “The Feather Men,” the book it is based upon written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (face it, an evil cabal known as the Feather Men does not inspire too much fear). These ex-SAS (Special Air Service) members, and…

Movie Trailer: Killer Elite (2011)

Action fans rejoice; the trailer for Killer Elite, the first high octane actioner of 2011 is here. Supposedly based on a true story, the movie follows the carnage wreaked by a retired British Elite Operative as he races to save his mentor from the clutches of three assassins. Okay, De Niro’s days as a testosterone…

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