Joker (2019)
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
Category: Action
First Blood (1982)
First Blood is quintessential Reagan-era violent individualism, and one of the benchmark flicks that set the standard for most Hollywood action films for the next several years. Resonant in the American psyche, this first...
The Delta Force (1986)
Originally, The Delta Force, which is the name of the special forces commando unit tasked with dealing with combating international terrorists and hostage situations, was going to be a film featuring both Chuck Norris and Charles...
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Jillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn’t quite pan out. Her quest for...
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Hobbs & Shaw is a spinoff to the Fast & Furious series, putting together two of the more popular characters in the later stages of the series, mostly playing for laughs off of their competitive...
Fast Color (2018)
Set sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be...
Shaft (2019)
Not to get too confusing, but the 2019 version of Shaft is actually a sequel to the John Singleton’s 2000 version, Shaft, and, due to the appearance of Richard Roundtree, we find that both of...
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Spider-Man is my favorite comic book character, but that hasn’t exactly translated into me blindly loving every movie about him. In fact, most of them have disappointed in some form or fashion. I even...
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The third in the original Mad Max trilogy, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome represents the most expensive film in the post-apocalyptic series, as well as (arguably) the least satisfying. It’s the first to be funded, at least in...
The Road Warrior (1981)
The follow-up to 1979’s Mad Max is called, very simply, Mad Max 2 in its initial release in Australia and other countries where it proved lucrative. However, in the United States, where it was the...