• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

I won’t be the first to tell you that director Kathryn Bigelow knows her way around filming extremely intense sequences. From her praised war films The Hurt Locker and...

• January 13, 2017
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

I remember when the Boston Marathon bombing occurred because my office had a co-worker that was running the race that year. As the headlines splashed across social media, we...

• January 3, 2017
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

Imagine being judged on 208 seconds of your life. This is what happens when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), a mild-mannered, cool-as-a-cucumber commercial airline pilot, managed to avert a...

• September 30, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

I don’t know about you, but I enjoy a good disaster movie. I love to see landmarks explode, tidal waves roar through cities, and the earth swallow cars. Deepwater...

• July 16, 2016
• At Home, Thriller, War

British intelligence has tracked a British national terrorist to a house in Nairobi, Kenya. As soon as she is identified, and the prepping of suicide vests is thrown into...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Sandra Bullock plays “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a political consultant apparently so ruthless that she can make even the most shady, incompetent politician into a winner. But Jane has been...

• July 12, 2016
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

I hate getting annoyed with movies that have such good intentions. It’s not like there isn’t a great story behind The Finest Hours, because indeed there is. In 1952,...

• February 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

It’s hard to comprehend the horror of being trapped in a mine for 69 days, but the film adaptation of the 2010 Chilean miner’s ordeal does a surprisingly good...

• January 25, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Based on the true story of an ill-fated 1996 climbing expedition on the titular mountain – during which a violent storm blew in and took the lives of eight...

• November 9, 2015
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Harrison Ford is a tall drink of water… no, make that a tall drink of lemonade, in this film that features easily one of Ford’s best performances. He smolders,...

• October 16, 2015
• Action, At Home, Thriller

Now, people who know me well know that I have a soft spot for disaster movies. I want to see that tidal wave destroy a major coastal city! I...

• October 16, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

That is not to say that Spielberg doesn’t know how to make an entertaining historical film. Bridge of Spies, after an exceptionally sluggish first half hour or so, is...