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‘The Shack’ Review: No Love for This Shack

Philip Brown — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:00:59 +0000

It’s possible that we’ll see a worse movie released in 2017 than ‘The Shack’, but that’s only because life is full of surprises, not because this complete failure is remotely redeemable. As I must any time that I rip apart a Christian-sploitation movie, I must now take a moment to make clear that tearing down...

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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Review: Mel’s Inspirational Violence

Philip Brown — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:00:34 +0000

Oddly naïve and sweet in its Christian values, yet vicious to the point of exploitation in its violence, ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ is very much a conflicted movie. It’s also the latest film directed by Mel Gibson, a man who can be charitably described as conflicted himself. Here he’s crafted something that almost feels like a tale...

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‘Everest’ Review: Such Great Heights

Luke Hickman — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:00:37 +0000

The mountaineering sport is not new to feature films. Amongst others, we’ve seen it in the action-thriller ‘Cliffhanger‘ and in the drama ‘Vertical Limit‘. Telling the true story of a tragic guided expedition to the peak of the largest mountain on Earth, with a minimal amount of sensationalizing, ‘Everest’ achieves the spectacle, tension and quality...

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‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Review: It’s All About the Beer Money

Philip Brown — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:00:27 +0000

Based on the most successful kidnapping in history (in terms of ransom returns) and featuring a pretty damn impressive British cast, ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ is a genre movie that should have made itself. The material is inherently exciting, the story undeniably compelling, and the performers are all talented enough to pull it off. Unfortunately, director...

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‘Cake’ Review: Bland and Stale

Philip Brown — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:00:41 +0000

The star system might not have the power it once did in Hollywood (one need only look at the number of Nicolas Cage movies that haven’t even hit theaters in recent years for proof of that), but it still has some pull when a project has awards potential. While someone like Jennifer Aniston might not...

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Blu-ray Highlights for May 29th, 2012 – Not Much to Talk About

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:00:36 +0000

Criterion collectors, indie movie fans, Shakespeare buffs and classic foreign film aficionados might all find new Blu-ray titles to peak their interest today. For anyone looking for something a little more mainstream… Well, there’s always next week. Don’t get me wrong; I fall into most of the above categories. Even so, there’s no denying that...

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Now Playing: Another Defeatable ‘Titan’

Luke Hickman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:00:42 +0000

For the record, I hated the ‘Clash of the Titans‘ remake. The only thing worse than its acting was its awful screenplay. To this day, it also remains the worst example of post-conversion 3D. In fact, the 3D was so bad that some folks in the industry predicted that it would kill the future of...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Grey’ Makes Green

Luke Hickman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:17 +0000

This, the last weekend of January, turned out to be quite surprising. If you had told me in advance that an R-rated movie about a man punching-out a pack of wolves would be #1 at the box office, and that Katherine Heigl would outgross a Sam Worthington heist thriller, I wouldn’t have believed you. Liam...

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Weekend Movies: Wolves, Ledges and Katherine Heigl

Luke Hickman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:22 +0000

The odd thing about this weekend’s releases is that the movie with the thinnest plot is almost certainly going to be the most entertaining of the bunch. Let’s be honest, watching Liam Neeson fist-fight a pack of wolves in the Alaskan wild sounds a lot more entertaining than any Katherine Heigl or post-‘Avatar‘ Sam Worthington...

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Now Playing: A Suicidally Bad Caper Flick

Luke Hickman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:35 +0000

I’ve wanted to give Summit Entertainment the benefit of the doubt, but the studio can’t seem to release worthy genre films. ‘Source Code‘ and ‘50/50‘ seem to be flukes in an otherwise crappy track record. For each good release, we get a ‘Twilight‘, a ‘Push‘ and a ‘Furry Vengeance‘. I had hoped that ‘Man on...

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The Trailer Park: Criminals Turned Action Stars

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:00:08 +0000

The new year appears set to kick off with a few films that feature criminals as heroic protagonists. In one movie, Sam Worthington volunteers to be the diversion to a heist that should prove his innocence. In the other action flick, Mark Wahlberg has to do one last heist to save his family. Both movies,...

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Videogame Releases: Week of November 6th, 2011

Dick Ward — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Well, nothing big coming out this week, guess we can just move on. Oh, unless you count ‘Skyrim’, ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ and HD versions of ‘Metal Gear Solid’. Which you should. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PC, PS3) It’s been a while since any videogame has significantly crossed over into...

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