• March 3, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Don’t get me wrong… I’ve really liked the Hunger Games series so far. In fact, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire both made my Top Ten Movies of the...

• March 2, 2015
• Action, At Home, Television

It’s my understanding that roller skating at Venice Beach in a swimsuit with no sort of built in bra and short shorts that tended to gap away from your...

• January 27, 2015
• Action, At Home, Drama, War

Though it could easily have become a vanity project about war (think: last year’s less-than-compelling Monuments Men) for its marquee star, Brad Pitt, this is, instead a seemingly “small”...

• January 25, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Scarlett Johansson stars as the titular American living in Taipei, who finds herself bestowed with superhuman abilities after a stash of über-potent synthetic drugs she’s being forced to transport...

• December 30, 2014
• Action, At Home

Based on the TV series of the same name, The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, a retired special-forces agent of some sort, who faked his own death...

• December 23, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

I know, I know… everyone and their cousin is trumpeting the wonders of director Matt Reeves’ dark, moody, surprisingly violent, (digital) ape-filled opus, but I’m not in the target...

• December 18, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Set in a dystopian future (that old chestnut!) and based on the YA book of the same name (yes, another one!), The Maze Runner centers on a young man...

• December 9, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Every movie faces the challenge of engaging and immersing its audience, but comic book movies have two groups to satisfy; the devoted fans and the casual viewer. Ideally the...

• December 1, 2014
• Action, At Home, Comedy

Strangely enough, though, I didn’t find it nearly as painful or tragically mangled as either of its aforementioned predecessors on my screening schedule. Comparatively speaking, it wasn’t terrible. Oh,...

• November 20, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Hercules (Dwayne Johnson), half-man/half-god (or so we are told), is famous across ancient Greece for his amazing feats of strength and badassery. Still, he doesn’t want the accolades or...

• November 18, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama

I count myself lucky to live in the Great Northwest, as far as natural disasters go. People from other parts of the country say with wide eyes, “But what...

• November 13, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

There is a lot to like about Snowpiercer, and there is a lot to forgive it for. Some initially dismissed it as “Hunger Games on a train,” or some...