There’s a reason why, 25 years after its release, John McTiernan’s Die Hard is such a ubiquitous film. There’s a reason why it’s been sequelized and duplicated to death. There’s a reason why, following it, Bruce Willis became a star. It’s because Die Hard is awesome.
Director Steven Soderbergh is retiring from the movies. It’s sad to say, but at least he left the cinema behind with Side Effects, a fantastic thriller that forgoes loud trappings for an engaging story and slowly burning plot points.
Melissa McCarthy steals the show in Identity Thief from the more-than-capable Jason Bateman, but the film around them isn’t quite as fetching.
Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies takes two tried-and-true movie formulas — the romantic comedy and the zombie movie — and smashes them together into something greater and more surprising than the sum of its parts.
In the 1970s and 80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill dominated the cinematic scene with various action movies and buddy comedies. Their latest movie, Bullet to the Head, attempts to recapture the spirit of the 80s but ends up feeling outdated, never attempting to reinvent or modernize this type of movie.
Despite promoting itself like a meditation on age and a challenge to moral character, Stand Up Guys plays out more like an episodic comedy of errors – a city-trotting lark which sees aging gangsters Val (Al Pacino) and Doc (Christopher Walken) running into any number of odd characters, trouble and ultimately liberation.
Parker gets great work out of Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, but it could have been a bit more ambitious.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is carnal, surface filmmaking — a cake made entirely of frosting
The Last Stand is rather insulting to the legacy that Arnold Schwarzenegger has created over the past 30 years.
Mama won’t quench your thirst for the next great horror film.
