≡ Category: Action, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Year: 2012
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Contraband has one of the most woeful first acts imaginable, a fairly good 2nd act, and a so-so 3rd act.
Half of the deficiencies of Contraband are due to lack of screenwriting craft and the other half are due to the filmmakers being unclear […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Joe Carnahan
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Grey is a wilderness adventure about a bunch of oil workers dodging wolves and otherwise trying to survive after they are stranded by a plane crash.
The filmmakers had six elements to work with: the plane crash; wolf attacks; overcoming obstacles such as […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Action/ Suspense
Director: George Gallo
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Middle Men is a slick, shallow movie about a slick shallow business, the internet pornography biz. Apparently, two numbnuts, Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi) and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht) came up with the idea of a system that would allow folks to use their […]
≡ Category: Essential, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
These days, it’s almost impossible for a Senator, Congressman or President to be elected who isn’t predestined to serve the interests of corporations and superrich instead of the American People.
The avalanche of corporate money, the barriers to third parties getting on the ballot, […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Mainstream, Not Worth Your Time, Science Fiction, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense/ Science Fiction/ Mainstream
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Nine times out of ten, the only reason for a remake to exist is gelt, money, pure profit. The producers take a known property that worked before and retool it for a new generation of consumers.
The Thing is […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: John Madden
Year: 2011
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Despite a fair bit of skill and craft both in front of and behind the camera, The Debt has an insoluble stumbling block in its central premise.
We are asked to care about characters with a dilemma which will not resonate with almost anyone in […]
≡ Category: Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Robert A. Endelson
Year: 1977
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Fight For Your Life isn’t all bad.
It starts out with an interesting premise. A multicultural group of lower class convicts escapes from a prison transport and holes up with a lower middle class black family.
Now, depictions of lower middle class black families are […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You can’t accuse Dead Birds of being unoriginal.
How many horror movies about Confederate bank robbers holed up in a haunted antebellum mansion can you recall?
It’s a good premise. There’s the potential for action (pursuing lawmen, internecine squabbles over the gold) and the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here we have the first season of Dexter I can’t fully recommend. Huge fans of the series will probably still want to check it out, but it’s just not very good.
The fault isn’t the actors. Michael C. Hall negotiates the contours of the […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Most remakes are an exercise in futility. Usually, the originals were just fine to begin with. Most of the time, the filmmakers have no real reason to make the film. Nine times out of ten, it’s a matter of simple economics. There’s an […]
