By Gary Dowell Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ulitmatum) continues his reign as the master of post-9/11 angst and grit, this time turning the true story of Captain Rich Phillips into a high-seas […]
By Gary Dowell Perhaps the hardest hard-science fiction movie to date, Gravity is both a breath-taking, sometimes awe-inspiring, and often chilling examination of the dangers of space exploration, what it takes to endure this harshest of environments, […]
By Gary Dowell Wisely smaller in scope yet appropriately over-the-top, writer-director David Twohy and actor Vin Diesel’s return to the character who helped put both of them on the map some 15 years ago, Riddick is sci-fi […]
By Gary Dowell The third collaboration between writer-director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End pulls off an impressive feat at the tail-end of a summer movie season loaded to the […]
By Gary Dowell Three years ago, Kick-Ass lit up a small number of screens like a cinematic firebomb tossed into unsuspecting megaplexes; audiences were caught off guard by the sight of a then-unknown Chloë Moretz swearing like […]
By Gary Dowell South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp became a big blip on the radar with his feature-length debut District 9. A hefty slice of sci-fi message movie that put a compelling and effective spin on […]
By Gary Dowell Let’s face it: Old man Logan took a serious cinematic beating in his first solo outing, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), most of it from the writer and director rather than the villains. It was […]
By Gary Dowell Much like its 2010 predecessor, based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer’s comic book about elderly secret agents forced out of retirement after they’re targeted for elimination, Red 2 is free from […]
By Gary Dowell Geek-auteur Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is no more or less bombastic than this summer’s other event-film spectacles, but damn if it isn’t a lot smarter, more fun, and less heavy-handed than […]
By Gary Dowell Familiar and a tad predictable, yet funny and satisfying, The Way, Way Back is a breezy throwback to Meatballs era of coming-of-age comedies, and a refreshing bit of counter-programming in a summer […]
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