Chuck Norris was the first big American action star of the 1980s. His career started in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until the late 1970s and early 80s that he became a household name. With his disco-era good looks and his martial arts prowess, Norris punched and kicked his wayContinue Reading
Other than Jaws, there are very few really good shark movies to pick from. A few movie studios, like The Asylum, have embraced the fact that they’ll never be able to equal the best shark film of all time. So, they shoot in the opposite direction. There is no shortageContinue Reading
Imagine that you’re in the film industry. A writer, perhaps. Your five year old child tells you a story about a dog looking to find its way home. The dog, maybe named Reggie, encounters and befriends several other dogs along his perilous journey. The dogs bond with each other throughContinue Reading
In Killing Season, John Travolta plays Emil Kovac, a member of the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary group that committed war crimes during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s. As the film opens, we see American soldiers liberating some of the Bosnian people from one of the Scorpions’ detention camps.Continue Reading
After I wrote my review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008, I never thought I’d review another Indiana Jones film. Here we are, 15 years later, and another — and presumably the last — entry into the long-running franchise has arrived in theaters. CanContinue Reading
Recent box office numbers have shown that the superhero genre is not the reliable cash cow it once was. Marvel and DC, the biggest players on the superhero movie game board, have seen revenues slip considerably in the last 4 years. On the Marvel side, since the completion of 2019’sContinue Reading
In the not-so-distant-future, the United States government sprays toxic gas over the entire country. Why isn’t spelled out but it’s hinted that the government changed from a democracy to a dictatorship. Those that manage to survive either form gangs or attempt to make it on their own. The gangs huntContinue Reading