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I would never accuse disaster master Roland Emmerich of possessing nuance, or even style, for that matter, but he who gave us Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow sure knows how to put on a show. I mean, in 2012, his latest end-of-the-world extravaganza, he destroys the White House with nothing less than an [...]

I never much cared for director Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, with its trippy time travel and cryptic-creepy rabbit, and liked his nonsensical Southland Tales even less. His seeming need for his films to be illogical eventually plagues The Box, too, turning what starts out as an intriguing and easy-to-grasp sci-fi parable into yet another mind-bending [...]

Every time I’ve chopped wood or watched anyone else do it, the basic motion is the same. The axe hangs slack, then swings back and behind the body in a sweeping arc over the head and down, splitting the log in two and embedding itself slightly on the block. It is a movement that mixes [...]

The trailers for Law Abiding Citizen made it look like an exciting action thriller, but it’s actually a lethargic revenge fantasy, one that expects us to buy macho man Gerard Butler as an ingenious mastermind.
Butler is the title guy, an enraged engineer who, ten years after witnessing the murder of his wife and daughter, and [...]

This isolated-location thriller starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) and directed by Dominic Sena (Kalifornia) didn’t get much love from critics or audiences when it was dumped into theaters last fall, but it actually proves to be a decently entertaining time-killer.
Beckinsale plays a U.S. Marshall stationed at an Arctic research station who, a mere two days before [...]

The exotic-sounding title of this seriously second-rate spaceship flick starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster refers to a fictional but violent psychological condition that sets in after too much time in suspended animation. I experienced some violent feelings of my own as the end credits rolled–and had a few choice words–having plunked down $10 to [...]

While it may well be true that in space, no one can hear you scream, the question remains: can they hear you talking to yourself? The isolation of space has long been a thematic construct in the best science fiction. Moon, which stars the gifted actor Sam Rockwell in a virtual one-man show as the [...]

A Perfect Getaway doesn’t quite live up to the second word of its double-meaning title, but it’s still a nifty little thriller from writer/director David Twohy (Pitch Black) that manages to surprise just enough to make watching it worthwhile.
The setup posits the possibility that one of three couples–newlyweds Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, free-spirit types [...]

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this is an entertaining movie.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this movie has an implausible plot twist.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Michael Douglas took this part because it took a few days of his life, he made millions, and he could do it in his sleep.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Amber Tamblyn is a very [...]

Director Michael Mann’s fascination with the criminal mindset has offered both television and movie audiences some of the most compelling underworld entertainment of the last 30 years. While Miami Vice allowed him to buy a very big house, it was furnished via more intellectual efforts, such as TV’s Crime Story, the James Caan vehicle Thief, [...]