The big problem with the soon-to-be-forgotten ‘Red Sparrow’ is that it can never quite decide what movie it wants to be. Is this the blockbustery spy romp and Black Widow knockoff like the trailers suggest? Or is it a ...
‘The Foreigner’ marks the great Jackie Chan’s return to English-language films after years away working in China. Unfortunately, anyone expecting a return of the insanely dangerous and beautifully choreographed a...
Hey, remember when everyone was obsessed with those ‘Underworld’ movies? I’ll bet you don’t because that never actually happened. Yet here we are, 14 years later, and there are still sequels being made. ...
For a movie that has without a doubt the least tantalizing title for an action/thriller in recent memory, ‘The Accountant’ is far more entertaining than you’d expect. Unfortunately, it’s also the type of mo...
It seems to be an unwritten law in Hollywood that if you’re successful as a comedy director for long enough, you’ll eventually try to make a dramatic movie in a bid to be taken seriously. That’s where Todd Philli...
After three years of studio hype and internet hate, ‘Batman v. Superman’ is finally here. Predictably, the first wave of reviews have been overwhelmingly harsh. However, for the most part, that reaction has been a litt...
Remember about a decade ago when every American horror flick was actually a remake of a J-horror movie or at least done in the style of Japanese horror? You know, before all the ’70s/’80s horror remakes and the Found F...
If one were to write a list of the filmmakers most likely to cover the great financial collapse of 2008, writer/director Adam McKay wouldn’t even be in the running. We’re talking about the man behind ‘Anchorman&#...
At its best, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond has been all about reinvention. ‘Casino Royale’ kicked things off with an origin story that allowed the Bond conventions to be twisted through the character’s inexp...
Not too long ago, the Jason Bourne series sucked all the fun out of spy movies, dragging James Bond down to po-faced drama with it. Some great movies came out of that, don’t get me wrong, but this year a couple of Brits have...
It’s bizarre to think that Tom Cruise managed to will an old TV series into a film franchise that’s kept trucking for 19 years and counting. Yet here we are with a fifth ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie thatR...
For years, there has been a collective fantasy of a film pitting Arnold Schwarzenegger against a zombie apocalypse. Between all the opportunities for exploding heads and one-liners, the thing just felt like a can’t miss oppo...
