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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is everything I hoped this release would be—actually, it was more than I hoped it would be.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is straight-up movie magic, a hell of a statement on fighting the good fight and staying on the right side of history, orders be damned.
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I think the best thing about Martin Campbell’s Cleaner is that it knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn’t aspire to push beyond those limitations. Better yet, it doesn’t want to try to one-up its obviously biggest influence, Die Hard, both being movies about a corporate party interrupted by terrorists while someone runs […]
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Here’s what you need to know going into Red One: It’s a Christmas movie written by Chris Morgan – scribe of the third through seventh Fast & Furious movies (and the Hobbs & Shaw spinoff) – and directed by Jake Kasdan, director of the latest Jumanji movies (and one of my personal favorites, Zero Effect). […]
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In my review of No One Will Save You, I said, “A near-silent movie just doesn’t happen these days.” Who knew that 2023 would bring TWO near-silent releases, with one of them being action grandmaster John Woo’s return to American cinemas after a 20-year absence? Silent Night is a bit of a departure from Woo’s well-known “heroic bloodshed” […]
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The premise of Wire Room is certainly more interesting than its execution. A lone federal agent in a secure facility tries to prevent a surveillance target from being killed – it’s gold, bearing many opportunities to tell this story with meaning, purpose, and style. As it stands, though, we only have characters we don’t care […]
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Now, this is a vampire story I can dig – a workingman’s vampire movie that leans into its action and comedy elements with gusto and sass. Day Shift revels in making vampire hunting a blue-collar occupation, the way that we’d look at pool cleaners, plumbers, and other similar tradesmen. I’m sure this kind of conceit […]
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In the last 12 years, we’ve had three Predator films after a duo of why’d-they-bother, cash-grabbing Alien vs. Predator crossover movies. 2010’s Predators was the last good film in the franchise, with 2018’s The Predator being an overhyped disappointment. We’re back into the realm of the surprise and wonder that Predator and Predators gave us, thanks […]
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Roland Emmerich does well with spectacle movies. Who can forget the indelible image of the White House being eviscerated by alien laser fire in Independence Day? Nor can one dismiss the awesome power of the tidal wave hitting New York City in The Day After Tomorrow. With his latest film, White House Down, Emmerich goes […]
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“With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” — Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Okay, so maybe we’re not talking about the ‘60s and the madness of the era. However, when I think of the new […]
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