To support her daughter, Hai Phuong (Veronica Ngo) works as a debt collector in rural Vietnam. Her days are spent tracking down debtors and thrashing them within an inch of their life if they can’t pay. Her nights are spent caring for her daughter, Mai (Mai Cát Vi,) whom sheContinue Reading
In the waning days of his big screen action career, Arnold Schwarzenegger was involved in some real clunkers. Collateral Damage, a 2002 movie directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive,) is one of them. Cast as Gordy Brewer, a Los Angeles fireman, Schwarzenegger plays a doting father and loving husband. BrewerContinue Reading
John Garrity (Gerard Butler) is an Atlanta-based architect who has recently moved back in with his estranged wife, Allison (Morena Baccarin) and son, Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd.) Things are awkward between John and Allison but they’re working at it. Putting on a brave face for their friends, they invite themContinue Reading
As Contagion opens, we see Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) traveling back to the U.S. from Hong Kong. She’s looking a little under-the-weather. We are then introduced to a number of characters in various locations across the globe who look similarly ill. Each of them comes into contact with family members,Continue Reading
You have to hand it to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He’s extremely charismatic, not a bad actor, and possesses a disarming smile. And no matter what implausible action movie he appears in, I have a hard time finding fault with him. San Andreas, yet another of Mr. Johnson’s hard-to-believe butContinue Reading
Roy Scheider plays Frank Murphy, a Vietnam War veteran flying helicopter patrols for the Metropolitan Police Department’s “Astro” Division. (The Los Angeles Police Department wanted no association with the film even though it clearly takes place in Los Angeles.) Murphy’s been experiencing blackouts related to PTSD from the war. HisContinue Reading
Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is having a terrible day. She overslept, her son is late for school, and her soon-to-be-ex-husband has just informed her that he’s going to fight her for their house. It’s about to get a lot worse. Trying to get her son to school, Rachel pulls up behindContinue Reading