The intriguing and occasionally terrifying Fire in the Sky shimmers with maximum menace on this Blu-ray edition.
Mile 22’s action passes by as jumbled images from various vantage points, all edited together with no rhyme or reason.
The majority of the film manages to circumvent the blunt allure of vaguely jingoistic “Boston Strong” patriotism.
It pulls back from the effectiveness of its macro view of hell on earth to focus narrowly on Mike Williams’s heroism.
Tomorrow, the WGA will announce its 2014 award winners, and whichever scribe(s) waltz off with the Original Screenplay prize may do the same on Oscar night.
Like his prior The Kingdom, Peter Berg’s film pretends to dabble in a frothy moral ambiguity, swiftly betraying its true aims with trigger-happy jingoism.
What’s most insulting about Battleship isn’t its awfulness, but that everyone involved knew it was a terrible concept from the get-go.
Sylvain White’s adaptation of The Losers is the second comic-book movie misfire of 2010 and hopefully the last.
Eager not to overstay its welcome, Hancock ultimately sheds essential exposition in a mad, foolish dash to the finish line.
This week’s episode is a tad bittersweet, as we get onto the topic of independent cinema and how it is being covered less and less in mainstream publications.
Lions for Lambs is, to put it mildly, beyond stagey.
Take some notes, Dubya: Jamie Foxx has the anti-terrorism tactics you’ve been craving.
It’s easy to see why Friday Night Lights would make someone nervous.
This multi-character crime saga is even less appealing than watching televised poker.
Girl 6, the story of a girl and her stint in the phone sex biz, is a sloppy and problematic film, no diggity.
In which Lee mind-wrestles with a feminist screenwriter and everyone loses.
The film is an unexceptional depiction of seizing the moment.
The film suggests a life boiled down to hunter and hunted, with hasty negotiations and clever fake-outs.
As a vehicle for Dwayne Johnson’s wrestler alter ego, the essential action drive of the film is pure cotton candy.
Corky Romano gets a very limited DVD treatment.