Since Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Rodriguez and their ilk first started riddling the screen with rapid-fire dialogue to complement equally rapid-fire bullets, the quippy, self-aware ult…
There's a certain delight in seeing a movie completely cold, knowing nothing about it, except that it takes place on a train. I hadn't heard anything about Compartment No. 6, so it was pleasing to hav…
It’s hard to be critical of a movie celebrating a heroic act when said heroes are also actors in the movie. Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation of The 15:17 to Paris (based on the book by the same name) …
In addition to helming the film, Branagh stars as renowned detective Hercule Poirot, whose investigative skills are rivaled only by his OCD. Remaining very faithful to the source material, the 1930s-s…
Woody Harrelson, doing his best "aw-shucks" American persona, and Emily Mortimer (flawlessly hiding her British accent) play Roy and Jessie, a married American couple returning home from a save-the-ch…
My friend and I, I'm sure, were the only people at the Unstoppable screening who high-fived each other in excitement at the mention of a train full of Molten Phenol. You may not know this, dear reader…
Despite the fact that I flat-out couldn’t finish The Polar Express and have no idea how it ends, I feel like Night Train would make a perfect sequel. It’s a creepy, Christmasy tale set entirely on a …
There is nothing more satisfying for a movie fan than discovering a film that has been around for years, but that completely knocks your socks off when you finally see it. How was it that I never saw …
