By cinema on Oct 19, 2008 in action, adult | 0 Comments
Body of Lies will probably get credit as the first Iraq War movie that people actually bother to see. It’s misleading, though, to assume that the movie has anything to do with politics in general, or that war specifically; it’s mostly a thriller involving double-crosses and moral ambiguity, using the bombed-out desert as its backdrop. [...]
By cinema on Sep 10, 2008 in action, adult | 0 Comments
Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race is based, in name at least, on the Roger Corman cult classic Death Race 2000. Because the original is something of an underground favorite, fans have been quick to cry sacrilege on the new version, but I can’t help thinking that if there’s any man worthy of remaking a Corman movie it has [...]
By cinema on Aug 25, 2008 in action, adult, thriller | 0 Comments
Time for me to own up. I never thought this movie would happen. The first Hellboy wasn’t exactly a box office smash and let’s face it, selling a superhero movie about a character who looks like Satan was never a sure thing to begin with. Yet I’ve never [...]
By cinema on Aug 9, 2008 in adult, adventure, supernatural adventure | 0 Comments
Is it so much to ask producers to take a tiny fraction of those tens of millions of dollars they’re throwing at computer generated graphics and hand it over to a writer and director capable of making a movie that isn’t a tedious waste of time? Like so many movies that have come before it, [...]