Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Bad Boys 3 has been in the works for over ten years, with the script phase beginning in 2009. Columbia Pictures assigned Peter Craig, co-writer of Ben Affleck’s The Town, for the first pass,...
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The Irishman (2019)
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
Men in Black: International (2019)
Although the original Men in Black trilogy had mostly run out of ideas, not in its third film, but halfway through its first, Hollywood is never one to leave a once-popular franchise dormant for long,...
Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Arnold famously said, in one of his few bits of dialogue from 1984’s The Terminator, “I’ll be back”. Seven years later, his words would prove true, as the sequel to the hit low-budget flick, which...
The Terminator (1984)
The simple premise: A killer android (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back to 1984 to assassinate the mother (Linda Hamilton) of a resistance leader of the future. A soldier of that resistance (Michael Biehn) is also...
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Stunt guy Chad Stahelski (who worked with John Wick: Chapter 2 star Keanu Reeves and bit player Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix) returns to the helm for his highly anticipated follow-up to cult hit John Wick with an entry...
Jackie (2016)
Jackie is a speculative historical drama that seeks to give us a peek into the hypothetical goings on of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the week following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on...
The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Miserables, The Dictator) continues his formula of crass, envelope-pushing comedies with The Brothers Grimsby (aka Grimsby outside of the US). The formula consists of trying to elicit laughs through sheer outrageousness, absurdity, and lots and...
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
The seemingly ageless Tom Cruise (Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion) continues to escalate to even higher levels of high-octane action thrills with the fifth entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Rogue Nation, and does it with success. Despite being...