Action

It is indeed true that there is no such thing as a video game adaptation curse, but there are terrible films based on video games. Borderlands, for instance. Honorable mention goes, of course, to Eli Roth’s ugly-as-hell adaptation of one of Gearbox Software’s best loved franchises, the ridiculously entertaining looter shooter following. Even the title […]

It is unfortunate that Netflix did not release the ‘Rebel Ridge’ theatrically because it puts the rest of the films running on the big screen right now to shame. Surely, there is no better way to finish off the summer movie season than with a cracking mainstream action blockbuster that is as enthralling as it […]

Thank you and now, I shall present the Hemsworth effect for your appreciation which can also be called the Hemsworth trifecta or the Hemsworth trilogy. I’m still working on the name for this but there is a new phenomenon in action cinema where we not just have one Hemsworth delivering hard hitting action but we […]

There’s a hot new action star and her name is nothing but June Squibb. Squibb, a seasoned yet fiesty 94-year- old actress who received an Oscar nomination for Nebraska and is fully engaged in writer (…) director Josh Margolin’s action comedy Thelma – to say the least – proves that age doesn’t hinder one’s dreams […]

There should be more women in the roles where Westerns are set; it shifts the viewpoint and also changes the story itself. The Netflix miniseries Godless (2017), the one which received several awards, definitely contributed to changing the trends, as well as the recent Emily Blunt miniseries The English. Quite recently, it’s interesting to witness […]

Prolific action director John Woo’s newage depiction of his 1989 classic ‘The Killer’ considering all factors is not a success. As the action of the film takes place in Paris instead of Hong Kong, the character which earned Chow Yan Fat fame as a poster boy of the genre is played by Nathalie Emmanuel. Now […]

Redemption and the world of athletics. Or rather redemption in the world of sports. Many such heart-warming under-dog stories are related to sports, even extreme sports. To the general audience of motion pictures, there is the vague overused intrigue of an underdog story — a poor but richly talented young sportsman who has but one […]

Wherever you go, there you are. This means that you cannot escape yourself and your personal problems when you travel to a different place. You can’t outrun them. That’s what British actor Guy Pearce’s Thomas Munro has to learn in the complex learning curve of Lee Tamahori’s new historical drama, The Convert. Set against the […]

When Twisters’ teaser trailer was released during the Super Bowl this year, you might have laughed at its title. “Just add an ‘S’ and we’re done?” And yes, it would be enough to make the blood boil of every highbrow cinephile to see Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos and Glen Powell; three leading actors known for […]

Kind of all over the place for me, were the two “Despicable Me 4” movies that I have seen so far, especially for a franchise that has been more or less consistent in its style of PG animated humor. I loathed the first one, loved the second one, thought the first “Minions” spinoff had it […]