• September 8, 2013
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

A Better Tomorrow was the movie that originally caught everyone’s attention with the distinct John Woo-style. His formula, which continues in his later movies like The Killer and Hard...

• May 10, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

After shooting a man involved with the rape and murder of a young inner-city woman, police officer Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is tried for murder. While it’s clear that...

• April 24, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Crime

All I can say is, thank goodness that I didn’t see until the END credits that Michael Bay directed Pain & Gain. It totally would have colored the way...

• April 20, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Documentary

Maybe I wasn’t a normal kid, but in junior high, I remember being obsessed with what has been termed the Crime of the Century. Strangely, the librarian never questioned...

• April 11, 2013
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

The man clearly knows how to smell a stinker a mile away, likely aided by Sandra Bullock’s 20-20 hindsight essay, “The Importance of the Words `No, Thanks’ and Other...

• February 9, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Law Abiding Citizen is a sweet, unassuming movie about a gentle family man…for about five minutes.  We watch as Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) spends quiet time with his little...

• February 5, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

I don’t think any amount of praise can really do To Kill A Mockingbird justice. To begin with, there is Harper Lee’s book, which is arguably one of the...

• February 4, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama

Viggo Mortensen has talked about having taken certain roles just to pay the bills, and it’s usually not hard to tell which ones they are. They’re generally in movies...

• 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 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...

• November 21, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) knows this, and gleefully hands the wheel of this silly but often hilarious mistaken-identity caper over to the...