In the USA Capital, Washington DC, people visit historic sites every other day. For example, the very first scenes in the film “War Game” depict a man staring through the windshield of a car at a Capitol building, and later, at the Washington Monument. But it isn’t some traveller who’s trying to snap some iconic […]
Hope Goldman is a name that somewhat contains a couple of words with certain high and up-market aspirations, therefore, one can safely assume it needs to be marketed. Of course, who would not want a person called Hope to be exactly that for them; their one-way journey to the inevitable of it all? In Austin
One more week, one more straight-to-digital action thriller, and the list goes on. Recently, these typical casts comprise either Aaron Eckhart or Olga Kurylenko, and well so happens that this film Jesse V. Johnson’s Chief of Station has both. (It actually is the movie where it stars Eckhart in the main character and Kurylenko who
Damaged: At their best, at least, the audience has been treated to a walloping dose of gore in many of the countless gruesome serial killer films that emerged in the imitator bandwagon to “Se7en” thirty years back. However, good suspense and atmosphere and new narrative concepts seem much harder to come by. This is definitely
Originating from this intense and engaging escape thriller about the South Korean army between North and South Korea is entitled “Escape,” this regresses into a quick 94 minutes long. It would have easily gone higher. One such consideration is the North Korean defector who breaks free after serving 10 years in the armed forces of
Monkey Man, set to be released in the year 2024, is an action movie which is directed and portrayed by Dev Patel. It is centered on a city within India where a boxer called Kid decides to confront the tyrannical system of martial law which has taken over the city. To begin with, Monkey Man
The only flaw of the Amazon Blumhouse originals is that they do not take risks. Their latest one entitled “House of Spoils” and made by the lovely duo of “Blow the Man Down” seems to be just another crownless lion in this blockbuster’s jungle of half-baked projects. It remains idling in the same place, another
Though the term is self-same, ‘Bagman’ is not based on an account of the theft of Spiro Agnew written by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz. It is more a film adaptation of a short story than the original screenplay by John Hulme. In fact, this is quite unfair in the sense that even a stack
This summer, it appeared like the “Mission: Impossible” saga had gone on a hiatus and while that is quite understandable, that doesn’t justify the need, for instance, for The Union, a quite heartbreaking lesson that sometimes, it’s just not worth it to buy–let alone, stream–a cheap knock-off. This film takes a few elements from the
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
