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COPSHOP

September 19, 2021 By Leave a Comment

COPSHOP

Click here for the flashback interview with Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo for THE GREY. There has rarely been such an effusive, even whimsical, satire on violence as that which is found in Joe Carnahan’s COPSHOP. This blackest of black comedies adroitly combines tension and goofiness with an insouciance that is nothing short of breathtaking.… Read More »

Tagged With: Arizona, besieges police station, bullet-ridden car, corruption, desert, hitman, tracheotomy

ANGEL HAS FALLEN

August 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANGEL HAS FALLEN

The word is carnage. ANGEL HAS FALLEN never goes more than a few minutes without someone or something being taken out. Sometimes in multiples. Often with a fiery conflagration. Very often. This third in the series featuring dogged Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) finds our hero happily settled into blissful domesticity with wife… Read More »

Tagged With: assassination attempt, Bigfoot, carnage, drone, President, Secret Service

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

February 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

Ah, the timeless tale of a boy and his dragon.  As recounted in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON I and II, it was magical. Even more magical is that the final part of the trilogy, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is the equal of the first two without being a repeat of either installment.

Tagged With: book to screen, flaming sword, hobgobbler, Light Fury, Night Fury, sequel. dragons

HUNTER KILLER

October 26, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HUNTER KILLER

The best thing I can say about HUNTER KILLER is that is it forgettable. This putative thriller of geopolitics and military bonding blows things up, sinks submarines, parachutes stoic guys through a thunderstorm, and fires endless automatic weapons, but when it’s all over, not much sticks beyond a nicely timed wrench catch, and the fortuitous… Read More »

Tagged With: covert ops, Murmansk Fjord, navy, special forces, submarine

LONDON HAS FALLEN

March 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONDON HAS FALLEN

Full disclosure, I was not a fan of OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, the previous film exploring the victim/savior relationship between President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and crack Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler).  Thus, I was not hoping for much when I approached LONDON HAS FALLEN. The trick to staying sane in this business is… Read More »

Tagged With: car chase, funeral, impending fatherhood, London, President, Secret Service, terrorism, terrorist attack

GODS OF EGYPT

March 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment

GODS OF EGYPT

The ancient Greeks preached moderation in all things, and while GODS OF EGYPT is set in that ancient land, not the Peloponnese, I was put in mind of that advice. This is a film of craven excess in all things except what would have helped most: a good script. For two hours or so, we… Read More »

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, blindness, Egypt, eye gouging, Eye of Horus, flying scarabs, fraternal war, mythology, romance, Thoth, true love

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN is a competently made thriller that attempts to make up in panache what it lacks in credibility. It fails. Taking a distinctly right-wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the… Read More »

GAMER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GAMER

GAMER, released without the benefit of a press screening, is a big, loud mess that loses its few good ideas in a morass of convoluted storytelling that it has, sadly, confused with stylish innovation. It posits a world in the near future where gaming has lost its virtual quality. Sim-worlds are inhabited by real people… Read More »

Tagged With: future, gaming, surrogate

UGLY TRUTH, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The wonderful thing about Gerard Butler is that his puckish animal magnetism can almost carry a clunker like THE UGLY TRUTH. A putative romantic comedy about the fundamental differences between men and women, it reduces both genders to emotional cripples while failing to find any humor in the situation.  Katherine Heigl, an engaging enough actress,… Read More »

BOUNTY HUNTER, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BOUNTY HUNTER is a tedious slog through tidy coincidences starting with the premise. A divorced couple meet again when she, a crack reporter on the trail of a bombshell story, jumps bail and he, the eponymous bounty hunter, is tasked with bringing her in. That’s about 15 minutes worth of good story line. Twenty… Read More »

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