What’s Going On? There are a lot of moving pieces as the Act of War begins. Jack Scalia is at his very stunning, uh, low-tech multi-faceted Hollywood briefcase. Jack Gracy (Jack Scalia, T-Force) is getting ready in the morning. He grabs a briefcase from the closet and notices a dragonfly’s larva mess resting on the […]
The most important things in life happen between the words. Subterranean noise is often louder than dialogue. This is a truth we all experience, but it is challenging to pull off in film, particularly if the subterranean moments are small shifts in consciousness where the character (and audience) understands that nothing will be the same
“What would you say if your daughter told you her boyfriend pushed her down the stairs but it’s okay because really it was just an accident?” Questions like this are at the heart of “It Ends with Us,” based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. This is a message picture
One of the most outstanding directors in the history of Hong Kong cinema, Lee Tso-Nam has made an invaluable contribution to the industry. He boasts more than 50 movies to his credit including The Tattoo Connection, Challenge of Death, and one of my personal favorites, Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, which brings his total
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly you need to see the R-rated director’s cut of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder’s grim Netflix space opera adventure. This new director’s cut adds 120 minutes of footage, including a numbing wealth of computer-animated gore and a bit more sex. Some of this new material
Some months back, while browsing on Tubi, I came across this film which had the title, Deadly Game, but was actually called, Catch Me If You Can. Eventually, I got around to watching this film, and wow it was quite a gripping comedy, revolving around two characters, detective Norm Gannon, as well as Nathan Thomas,
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road House,” the plastic, overwrought remake of the 1980s cult classic. With “The Instigators,” his second film of the year, he manages to make Matt Damon, in a re-teaming from their Bourne days, so void of any charm that the director makes this among
Evil King Yeung Chang of the Qing Dynasty conquered the land. At the beginning of the movie, he commands an entire family to be killed, but a monk intervenes and manages to take the youngest children to safety. The sisters undergo intense Shaolin kung fu training at the monastery and once they become adults (portrayed
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time and place of this new movie co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, who also wrote the screenplay, becomes clear. It’s the United States in 1918, and the Spanish Flu is making its way to
Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling logical human behavior in “Detained,” the film that follows undeniably provides its own simple pleasures in the Goofy Escapism department. Heavily inspired by “The Usual Suspects,” right down to the inclusion of a mysterious villain who might be in the room with us,
