The Little Things (2021)
The Little Things finds John Lee Hancock directing a mystery-thriller screenplay he’s kicked around for a few decades. The origin of the story began in 1992 after Steven Spielberg had read the script for...
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The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2 brings back Denzel Washington (Fences), along with director Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), continuing the further adventures of one man’s quest to...
Fences (2016)
Set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Troy Maxson (Washington, The Magnificent Seven) is a 53-year-old former negro league baseball star currently working as a sanitation worker, earning the money he hands over to his wife of...
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a classic Western of the same name from 1960, which itself is a remake of a classic samurai masterpiece, The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. Antoine Fuqua takes the director’s...
The Equalizer (2014)
The Equalizer is very loosely based on the hit show from the 1980s, starring Edward Woodward, that ran from 1985 to 1989. This new incarnation ramps up the comic book aspects of its premise and...
2 Guns (2013)
2 Guns is a meat-headed buddy action comedy that sports a few twists and turns, and a smattering of solid yuks, but fails to truly connect due to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s lack of...
Safe House (2012)
Ryan Reynolds plays rookie CIA agent Matt Weston, reluctantly stuck in a dreary, boring assignment looking after an empty safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. When his locale is used as the interrogation...
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
Although generally considered one of writer-director Spike Lee’s (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever) weaker efforts, I do have a soft spot for Mo’ Better Blues, despite agreeing with much of the criticism. Despite being all...
Heart Condition (1990)
Bob Hoskins plays bigoted cop Jack Moony, who spends much of his time becoming irate, eating the worst foods, chain-smoking, and swilling in booze. It eventually leads to a stroke. Moony is lucky enough...
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Remaking a time-honored classic film seems like a useless task, as part of the reason why the original is considered classic is due to the ability to endure over time and speak to different...