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This Weekend’s Movies: “Live Free or Die Hard”
“Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker!” Is there a better one-liner in all of cinema? Let me anwser that for you: No there isn’t. The line is perfect. A blend of whimsical nostalgia for movie houses stuffed...
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M. Night of the Living Oeuvre–a look at the works of M. Night Shyamalan
In preparation for the upcoming The Happening, I figured the time was ripe for a look back at the collected works of M. Night Shyamalan. Plus it’s a nice, low-impact way to look busy in the office. No,...
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Christmas Movie Round-up!
So, recently Kassandra the Work-Wife told me “You need to review something new. I’m tired of the looking at the poster for Midnight Meat Train. It’s boring.” As I was in the multi-day process of...
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James Cromwell invents the future: “Surrogates”
What is it with James Cromwell? How did this character-actor (always awesome, btw) become the inventor of the future? Check out his resume: In I, Robot he played the dude in charge of the massive...
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Bruce Willis gets killed in the first reel: “The Cold Light of Day”
Yeah, Bruce gets it about twenty minutes in, just as the plot gets moving. There, see? I just saved you from being as disappointed as I was when I realized that I was going to have to spend the rest of...
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Bruce Willis gets killed in the first reel: “The Cold Light of Day”
(The Cold Light of Day was released in Thailand already, so I got an advance taste of this waste of celluloid. Below is a reprint of my orginal review posted April 10, 2012) Yeah, Bruce gets it about...
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Killing time: “Looper”
Looper isn’t a hugely twisty-turny movie, but the plot developments it does have are pretty important, so I’m not going to spoil anything you couldn’t see in the trailers. Plus, this is a really,...
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A bad day for an action franchise: “A Good Day to Die Hard”
Good effing Lord, what the hell did I just see? Because it sure as hell couldn’t have been a Die Hard movie. Look, I know the quality of the movies have declined since…well, the first one, but these...
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Criminally Overlooked: “Last Man Standing”
New Line Cinemas might have been forgiven for thinking they had a sure-fire hit—or at least a modest box office winner—with Last Man Standing. After all, here was a bang-bang-shoot-‘em-up action film...
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