Transformers
July 3, 2007
Friday June 22nd, and some of the staff from TheTransformers.Net and TransformersTheMovie.com made the long and arduous journey down to London for the premier of Transformers. That’s right, despite our long running and publicised feud with Don Murphy...
Above the Law
May 30, 2007
Above the Law (1986) aka Righting Wrongs is a classic example of Hong Kong action cinema from the 1980s, complete with a soundtrack that evokes Harold Faltermeyer’s early 1980s work (Fletch and Beverly Hills Cop) with cheesy synthesizer music. Regardless,...
Born to Fight
May 9, 2007
Following hot on the heels of the surprise success of Ong-Bak (2003), comes Born to Fight, (2004), another Thai martial arts film that boasts plenty of action, all of it without the aid of CGI. So when you see a guy taking a tumble off a moving truck,...
Spider-Man 2.1
April 30, 2007
In a blatant attempt to cash in on the theatrical release of Spider-Man 3 (2007), the powers that be have revisited Spider-Man 2 (2004), added eight minutes and re-released it on DVD with the nifty 2.1 moniker and a few new extras so that Spidey completists...
Deja Vu
April 20, 2007
Director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington team up for another noisy, hyperactive action film for producer Jerry Bruckheimer but this time out they try to add a bit more substance and thought between the car chases and explosions with Déjà Vu (2006). When...
Smokin’ Aces
April 17, 2007
Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie have pretty much cornered the market on the ultraviolent, pop culture-laden crime film. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell filmmaker Joe Carnahan who follows up Narc (2002), his ode to gritty police procedurals of...
Payback Straight Up: The Director’s Cut
April 12, 2007
When Payback was originally released in 1999, it was surrounded by a bit of controversy when it was reported that the studio was not happy with writer/director Brian Helgeland’s original cut and with Mel Gibson’s approval, the actor filmed a new third...
Casino Royale
March 14, 2007
Like Batman Begins (2005) and Superman Returns (2006), the James Bond franchise has reinvented itself by going back to the beginning complete with a new actor in the role of a familiar icon. Even the series’ trademark opening credit sequence has been...
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
January 29, 2007
Originally inspired by the American western and the crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) would go on to inspire countless other films, most notably the Sergio Leone spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Walter...
Bandidas
January 17, 2007
Considering the two movie stars that headline this project, it is somewhat surprising that 20th Century Fox decided to quietly release Bandidas (2006) straight to video in North America. While Salma Hayek is not the box office draw she once was, her co-star...
