Willem Dafoe is an actor who, despite his craggy features, can alternately play unconventionally handsome leading men as well as near-freakish villains. In Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter, Dafoe plays Martin David, a mercenary hunter who is hired by Red Leaf, a biotech company, to hunt down and obtain genetic materialContinue Reading
Martha Marcy May Marlene, the first feature film by writer/director Sean Durkin, tells the story of Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), who escapes from a cult run by the charismatic Patrick (John Hawkes.) We don’t learn much about Martha over the course of the movie’s running time. In fact, we don’t learnContinue Reading
About a year ago, I posted a review of The Human Centipede on my YouTube channel. That film is notorious for being hard-to-watch due to the nature of its subject matter. Almost immediately after I posted that video review, people began asking me to watch and review a film entitledContinue Reading
Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is the unluckiest man in Las Vegas. His luck is so bad that casino owner Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) employs him as a “cooler,” someone who’s mere presence makes winning tables go cold. Bernie has been working off a large gambling debt to Shelly byContinue Reading
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is an efficiency expert for Federal Express. He travels all over the world to analyze shipping and sorting operations at various terminals for the company. Back home in Memphis, he has a girlfriend, Kelly (Helen Hunt), whom he sees in between jaunts from one end ofContinue Reading
Action star Jean Claude Van Damme has been called many things, but “actor” is most likely not one of the first words to pop into anyone’s head at the mention of his name. After a screening of JCVD, that line of thinking might (and probably should) change. JCVD casts the “Muscles fromContinue Reading
Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was one of professional wrestling’s biggest superstars in the 1980s, performing in huge arenas, featured in video games, and even turned into an action figure. Now, however, he works part-time at a grocery store during the week and wrestles in half-empty New Jersey highContinue Reading