By Gary Dowell Based on ex-Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s book about a 2005 mission in Afghanistan that went shockingly and tragically bad, Lone Survivor plays out like the antithesis of the standard hoo-rah military-themed action films that […]
By Cote Bailey On career Just love scotch and the companionship of small dogs. Do those two things and the news will do itself. On selflessness I once saw my father get the wrong order from […]
By Gary Dowell While Paul Walker’s death in November devastated the friends and fans of the popular actor it also put the future of the “Fast and Furious” franchise in limbo. The seventh film in […]
By Gary Dowell Director Ron Howard’s latest project Rush, a dramatization of the tempestuous rivalry between Formula 1 racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda in 1976, is burning up the track at the box office. […]
By Gary Dowell Aside from the Batman franchise, Warner Bros. has been behind the curve in developing a cinematic universe for their own superheroes; the owners of scores of fan-favorite characters, they’ve developed little else in recent […]
By Gary Dowell Job Woes The Internship: Eight years after The Wedding Crashers (yeesh, has it been that long?) became a sleeper hit, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn re-unite to play two salesmen struggling to […]
By Gary Dowell A funny thing happened at the megaplexes last summer. That was when Fast Five debuted, and unexpectedly crystallized the formula of what had to that point been a very formulaic franchise. The restraints came […]
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