The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Getting beyond the terrible title, obviously an homage to the James Bond title of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Spy Who Dumped Me offers some choice laughs from its capable comedic actors front and center,...
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Ethan Hunt (Cruise, American Made) and the rest of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) get the blame for losing a target by putting the well-being of their own force over that of millions, perhaps billions,...
Skyscraper (2018)
“Die Hard in a building” is how the film has been coyly referred to by some (my choice of title would have been, “Rock Hard“), as we have a tough hero in the titular building...
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
As the Fast and Furious movies have continued, they’ve gotten progressively bigger, better in some cases, but also a whole lot sillier as well. The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in the lucrative franchise, is perhaps...
Patriots Day (2016)
Bringing us back not so long ago to the fateful 2013 Boston Marathon comes Patriots Day, a thriller-oriented re-enactment of the events that transpired, with some embellishments to help the project commercially. One of those embellishments...
Criminal (2016)
It’s perhaps fitting that the generically titled Criminal‘s plot centers around a man who is, literally, conflicted about who he is supposed to be when the film itself suffers from the same conflict. Directed by...
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...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Die Hard (1988)
In 1968, Roderick Thorp’s 1966 novel, “The Detective”, was adapted to the screen by 20th Century Fox. The film version starred Frank Sinatra as middle-aged ex-cop Joe Leland and performed well enough at the...