• June 5, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama, War

All along I’ve been thinking that Defiance is an insufficient name for a film about surviving the Holocaust. It’s too nondescript, too generic–the movie could be about anything, really....

• May 27, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

The formula is so simple – great actors playing great characters in a great film with great effects and a really great screenplay – that’s it’s amazing so many...

• May 22, 2014
• Action, At Home

If you love The Professional as much as I do, then you know that Luc Besson is your go-to guy when it comes to movies about cleaners. 3 Days...

• May 22, 2014
• Action, At Home

In fact, you don’t really need more information to enjoy this awesome sequel. We’re given a quick recap explaining that Vietnam vet Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) has become a...

• May 21, 2014
• Action, At Home, Thriller

The names on the movie poster should make any action-movie fan drool: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Li, Lundgren, Statham, Rourke, and on, and on. My god, ALL these ass-kickers in...

• May 20, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama

Cheeseball disaster flicks are a category unto themselves. They are all about spectacle and special effects: Volcanoes go boom! Meteors hit major landmarks! The earth opens up and swallows...

• April 4, 2014
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

As we all know, there has been a barrage (quite literally… SLAM! BANG! POW!) of superhero movies lately. Audiences can’t seem to get enough, even to the point of...

• March 6, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

This is an Epic with a capital “E”, that’s for sure. Swords, and tigers, and blood, oh my! Actually, a lot of blood. Muddy armies hacking each other to...

• February 22, 2014
• Action, Animation, At Home, Television

I’ve always been puzzled about the intended audience of comic book cartoon shows. I mean, they’re animated and usually air when and where kids can find them, but they’re...

• February 22, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

Batman Begins is, obviously, the story of how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.  As a child he falls into a well full of bats.  Haunted by the experience, Bruce freaks...

• February 17, 2014
• Action, At Home, Thriller

The pedigree, on screen, is there: Ridley Scott directing, filling his film with a cast of heavyweights like Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz....

• February 16, 2014
• Action, At Home

When making a direct-to-video Steven Seagal film, it’s probably best to have a really simple good vs. evil plot that people can follow. That’s kind of a good rule...