The Expendables
November 30, 2010
For fans of action films from the 1980s and early 1990s, it has always been a pipe dream to see their favourite action stars team up or, better yet, battle each other. Think of it as the cinematic equivalent of fantasy football. With The Matrix (1999),...
Surrogates
January 20, 2010
For every Die Hard (1986) or 12 Monkeys (1995), there are all kinds of 16 Blocks (2006) and Hostage (2005) – forgettable genre films that populate Bruce Willis’ extensive filmography. Surrogates (2009) is the latest paycheck film for the veteran actor....
Live Free or Die Hard: Unrated
December 18, 2007
It seems like some of the action stars from the 1980s are trying to make a comeback. You’ve got Sylvester Stallone resurrecting the Rambo franchise. Harrison Ford is donning the hat and bullwhip to play Indiana Jones again. Hell, even Jean-Claude Van...
Planet Terror: Extended and Unrated
October 19, 2007
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are hardcore film buffs that grew up to become very successful filmmakers and friends who have collaborated on several projects over the years. Recently, they decided to indulge their love of Grindhouse movies of...
Fast Food Nation
March 21, 2007
Adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name by Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation (2006) is something of a departure for filmmaker Richard Linklater as it is his most overtly political effort – a scathing indictment of the fast food industry as...
16 Blocks
June 24, 2006
Bruce Willis essays yet another burnt out cop in 16 Blocks (2006) playing detective Jack Mosley. He’s world-weary and has definitely seen better days. Willis has had a lot of practice playing this kind of role and slips into it effortlessly in the way...
Sin City: Recut Extended Unrated
February 16, 2006
It only makes sense that if one is going to adapt a comic book into a film that it be faithful in look and tone to its source material. Otherwise, why adapt it in the first place? Of course, there is always the danger of being too faithful to the look...
Sin City
January 29, 2006
Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller as loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,...
Hostage
December 5, 2005
Quentin Tarantino has said that he cast Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction (1994) because he reminded him of Ralph Meeker, an actor who had a classic film noir quality to him that the filmmaker was looking for. Willis exudes the same kind of presence in two...
Sin City
November 12, 2005
Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller. They are loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,...
