Strange the outrage that has accompanied the release of Bruce Willis’ 2018 update of 1974’s Death Wish. The original starred Charles Bronson, an engaging non-actor who deftly presented an everyman’s dilemma: what to do with the emotions left behind by the rape and murder of your wife and daughter. The […]
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I was a big fan of the first Red, but going into the sequel I was a bit skeptical. Some early reviews were not the most positive, but I went into the film hoping for at the very least a fun ride. Most of the main cast from the original […]
Growing up in the 80s I first became aware of Bruce Willis from the TV series Moonlighting, in which he played LA gumshoe David Addison. After seeing Die Hard (around age 14) I became a die hard fan like most people who saw it. Many of my after school hours […]
For quite some time, I’ve been griping about the never-ending stream of recycled ideas coming out of Hollywood over the past few years. I’d say that one of the most original films I’ve seen recently is without question Christopher Nolan’s 2010 mind-boggler Inception, a film that left me speechless after […]
One thing that I never dreamed I would see in my lifetime is Sylvester Stallone duke it out with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now if that doesn’t scream manly than nothing does. Thanks to director Simon West’s The Expendables 2, I have now seen these two titans of action beat each […]
Sin City is based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Artist Frank Miller. Miller is most famous for Sin City but has done other stories like The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and Hard Boiled (unrelated to the John Woo film). I saw the movie before I […]
Four Rooms is an anthology (mostly comedy) of four stories each one by a different writer/director (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino). Tim Roth stars as Ted The Bellhop, the character that connects the stories together. Each one takes place in a different room of the hotel […]
Tango down! Welcome to our list of 10 awesome special forces movies. They used to be cool and all over TV, but only since supposedly Seal Team 6 capped Osama, they are back in talks to grace your local celluloid screen: Special forces. Be they military, naval, police or other, […]
Name a director that has made rock solid, gritty and entertaining cinema but hardly anyone knows the name of. Yeah of course I am talking about Walter Hill, hence the headline. He is one of my favorite low-profile directors working today. I really dig some of his work a lot, […]