To Catch a Killer opens in Baltimore on New Year’s Eve. As celebratory fireworks ring in the new year, a sniper uses the noise to mask a mass shooting. 29 seemingly random people are gunned down for no apparent reason. The only common thread is the almost inhuman accuracy ofContinue Reading
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 is one of the most polarizing events in United States history. Some people believe it was a coup d’état by insidious forces within the U.S. government. Others think it was the act of a lone gunman who had someContinue Reading
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
When gangster Frank Buchanan (Michael Granger) wants to get revenge on his enemies, he employs an oddly complicated way of doing it. He recruits a former Nazi scientist (Gregory Gay) to reanimate dead bodies to carry out their murders. I guess if you want something done, you’ve got to getContinue Reading
If a film carries the title Vengeance, one would predictably expect an action movie. Or a revenge picture. But one probably wouldn’t expect first-time writer/director B.J. Novak’s crime story that humorously attempts to get to the root of the increasing division between Americans in today’s self-obsessed society. Novak also starsContinue Reading
“Inspired by true events,” claims the advertising campaign for Cocaine Bear, a movie about a bear that ingests cocaine and goes on a murder spree through a national park in Georgia. Yes, there really was a bear that came across some cocaine dumped from an airplane. Yes, it ate some.Continue Reading
I’ve regularly made fun of Nicolas Cage for never meeting a script he didn’t like. Or, more likely, a paycheck. Mr. Cage has been in 20 films in the last five years, including this month’s The Old Way. Even though he’s won an Academy Award, he’s sometimes viewed as aContinue Reading