Category Archive: Thriller

Transcendence

Transcendence is like watching a baseball player hit a home run only to get profoundly lost and confused after stepping on second base.

Under the Skin

This is a crude, rude, offensive film devoid of a single moment of charm or interest. It gives all aliens a bad name.

Non-Stop

Similar to 3 Days to Kill, this is a film where the hero is an aging, alcoholic man with lost hopes and dreams.

3 Days to Kill

Despite being released in Hollywood’s February dead zone, this is a film that is likely to surprise you on multiple levels.

RoboCop

How can this film be both fun and intellectually stimulating? How can that be possible?

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

How can you possibly miss any film starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner with Kenneth Branagh directing?

Out of the Furnace

Rating: I am somewhat ashamed that I liked this incredibly morbid film. I wished my psychiatrist hadn’t moved to New Mexico.

Kill Your Darlings

Though the film contains some very good performances, my overall reaction was captured long ago by the famous words of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), and I paraphrase,  “It coulda been… Continue reading

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Rating: Katniss Everdeen is a female Robin Hood, so get to the theater and watch the Sheriff of Nottingham’s knees start to buckle.

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