• January 11, 2013
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

The Hollywood(land) sign in the Hollywood hills is as iconic in the movies as it is in real life. Gangster Squad opens up with a, well, memorable scene with...

• December 23, 2012
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

Street Kings is a bizarre and admittedly kind of fascinating cop movie. It suffers from what on the surface (and well, not so surface) is an “all cops are...

• December 22, 2012
• Action, At Home, Family

Speed Racer may just be this generation’s new Tron. No… wait… I take that back. Tron, though notably a kind of stinky movie, was still certainly a memorable film...

• December 21, 2012
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

Unlike the millions of fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books, I had never heard of the guy. I may as well be the equivalent of Richard Jenkins’ jaded...

• December 11, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Unlike Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a trio of movies based on a trio of dense books, the Hobbit trilogy is based on… a single book....

• December 1, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home

You know you are in for a weird 70s-style camp treat when you see French heartthrob Alain Delon galloping his horse aimlessly across what almost seems to be a...

• November 25, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Naysayers will want to compare The Hunger Games (and the forthcoming movie sequels) to The Twilight Saga, or to other stories with similar surface plots, like The Running Man...

• November 23, 2012
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

If you take a big step back from the rough plot of the sci-fi thriller District 9, you can see it has a familiar story arc. A prejudiced character...

• November 14, 2012
• Action, At Home, Drama, Fantasy

We pick up right where we left off at in Part 1: Bella has birthed the Tooth Baby and survived via a bitey transfusion from Edward. Yep, not only...

• November 14, 2012
• Action, At Home, War

In the updated version of Red Dawn, it is the North Koreans invading instead of a Soviet-led contingent, and once again, the story revolves around a group of kids...

• November 8, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Crime, Thriller

Things aren’t looking too great for anyone when the film opens: super-spy James Bond (Daniel Craig) is presumed dead after a botched mission that simultaneously lands M (Judi Dench)...

• October 31, 2012
• Action, At Home, Horror, Thriller

Now, before you can say, “Wait… what?”, here’s the plot: A tsunami hits an idyllic Australian beach town, flooding a supermarket, and trapping customers, employees, and (yes!) a couple...