• 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...

• October 12, 2012
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

If you were to glance at the screen while The Courier was playing, you would say it was a movie. It’s got recognizable actors, a great deal of action,...

• February 3, 2010
• At Home, Crime, Drama

It’s beefy, both in running time and content, and filled from open to close with bad guys, good buys, flying bullets, violence, drugs, murder, chase sequences and some stellar...

• October 27, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

With the success of Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, a remake of the original Infernal Affairs, there has been a renewed interest in the Hong Kong trilogy of films that...

• October 27, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

I first saw this film a few years ago at a film festival, enjoyed it, and was later appalled when I heard that Brad Pitt has optioned the rights...

• August 27, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Music

It’s not that the movie is bad, because it isn’t. In fact, it’s quite ambitious and somewhat enjoyable. But it does try to cram in so many different genres...

• August 7, 2004
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kenji (Tadanobu Asano, Twilight Samurai) is a Japanese library clerk in Bangkok. His work environment is as orderly and tidy as it is uninteresting, with fluorescent lights seemingly washing...