Detective Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) works in the cold case division of the NYPD. He’s still reeling from the unsolved murder of his wife and baby son. For three years, he’s personally investigated every lead he can to try and solve the murder himself. When one of those leads takesContinue Reading
In present-day Britain, an underground construction project disturbs the lair of an animal long thought extinct: dragons. Soon after this discovery, dragons have multiplied with unbelievable speed and begun to decimate the Earth. Mankind attempts to use weapons against the dragons but this act simply aids the dragons’ survival asContinue Reading
In 1996, a military program is introduced that hand-selects newborn baby boys to be enrolled into a training regimen that will harden them into super soldiers by their 18th birthday. These soldiers are desensitized to violence as well as given mental and physical tasks that reinforce their endurance. Flash forwardContinue Reading
Continuing as a direct sequel to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace opens with a car chase that can be used to summarize the entire film: It’s loud, fast-paced, and somewhat confusing, but, ultimately, you figure out what’s happened and make sense of it all. This time out, James Bond (DanielContinue Reading
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum,” says Nada (Roddy Piper), after discovering that the Earth has come under the control of aliens in John Carpenter’s They Live, which is at once a science fiction tale, a comedy, and a commentaryContinue Reading
As many older film series have been “rebooted” in the last few years to appeal to a younger audience, it was inevitable that there would come a time to reboot the James Bond series. In 2006, that time came. With the Bond character becoming somewhat creaky in light of on-screenContinue Reading
Astronauts Charles Brubaker (James Brolin), John Walker (O. J. Simpson), and Peter Willis (Sam Waterston) are sitting on the launch pad, poised to become the first men to travel to Mars, when they’re pulled from their command module and taken to a remote location in the desert. When they areContinue Reading