“The first thing to be abandoned in warfare is the truth.” Is that still a true statement in modern warfare? Drone warfare may be handled from a distance, but it still involves very human situations and has the same implications of all war. Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) is having a difficult time sleeping and it has more to do with her job […]
The first Kung Fu Panda was a thoroughly decent film. Sure, the story and comedy were absurdly predictable, but it had a good heart, great animation, and a fantastic cast. Two years later, Kung Fu Panda 2 was released, raising the bar incredibly. Not only did it improve the things that were good about the original […]
‘Never work with children or animals.’ – W.C. Fields Allan “Swampy” Marsh (Shane Jacobson) has a problem. As a chicken farmer, he needs a dog that will protect his egg laying profit makers. He has two Maremma dogs and one of them, Oddball, does not seem to understand his role as a guard dog. Yet, that is not […]
You cannot really give Jane Got a Gun a fair review unless you talk about at least some of the numerous production problems. Right before Jane Got a Gun was supposed to begin principal photography, the original director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk about Kevin) did not show up on set. The cast and […]
And another one. The latest YA book adaptation makes its big screen debut. Enter: Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave. Any film based on a post-apocalyptic themed YA title has a lot to live up to in the wake of the Hunger Games series, which as far as these adaptations go, is pretty much the gold standard […]
The tradition of making American remakes of highly influential foreign films that completely miss the mark shows no sign of slowing down with the American remake of the French horror film, Martyrs. The original film from 2008, directed by Pascal Laugier, is considered a modern horror cult classic that pushed the limits on onscreen gore […]
Back in the 1960s, John Frankenheimer made his loose “Paranoia Trilogy”. The first two entries are some of his most famous work, The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May, movies set in the corridors of power in America. The third and final movie was the sci-fi-thriller Seconds, a movie that has a ground-level look […]
