There is one overwhelming question about THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY. Why isn’t this a better flick? It certainly has all the right elements. The cast, led by Henry Cavill and Sigourney Weaver, are solidly committed. The story is the kind that Hitchcock loved. An innocent man plunged into a life-and-death situation not of his… Read More »
POSSESSION, THE
The problem with THE POSSESSION is that all the spooky hokum has gotten in the way of what might have been a nicely rendered family drama about the toll of divorce. Saddled with a tepid turn by its director, and a script that never quite gets its act together, its one redeeming quality is, nonetheless,… Read More »
DREDD 3D
The great irony of DREDD 3D is that the narcotic driving the criminal element of the film is called Slo-Mo and its trick is to make slow time down to one-percent of normal for the user. Ironic because DREDD, based on the comic strip by Carlos Ezquerra and John Wagner, does the same thing for… Read More »
TAKEN 2
TAKEN 2 is an unnecessary follow-up chronicling the further mishaps of the Miller family when they choose to go abroad on vacation again. In TAKEN 1, it was daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who was kidnapped by the 21st-century version of white slavers, leading to an improbable but rousing rescue by her ex-CIA agent of a… Read More »
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4
With PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4, we see the decline of a once fresh and robust franchise into something dull and predictable. Worse, with this installment, we see the franchises transition into yet another entry into the slasher genre. The tale is still told via rough cinema-verite footage from surveillance cameras and other assorted forms of home video.… Read More »
SKYFALL
SKYFALL may not be the best Bond film ever, but there has certainly never been a better entry in the series. The trademark mordant wit, breakneck action, and visceral eroticism are all in evidence here, and operating at their finest level, but there is a subtle yet piquant, tweaking of the usual formula that makes… Read More »
2012 TOP (>) TEN FILMS
I refuse to bow to the convention of a top ten. Sure, there is a nice consonance to the phrase, but ten films? Please. It’s just wrong to deprive fine films their rightful recognition because a “t”-filled catch phrase has a mellifluous quality and, we as a species have, as the norm, five fingers on… Read More »
BULLET TO THE HEAD
It was a gutsy thing to do casting Jason Momoa as the villain in BULLET TO THE HEAD, what with star Sylvester Stallone obviously being under the impression that he is still in his action-hero prime, and Momoa being all that Stallone ever was and a whole lot more. Momoa, all musky charisma and bulging… Read More »
PARKER
Patton Oswalt once opined that Jason Statham can make any movie better. He is not wrong. For those who have succumbed to Mr. Stathams particular appeal as a cool and deadly action hero, his charisma is an umbrella over the rougher patches of all but the most cretinous scripts. In PARKER, he has found a… Read More »
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD
It is the way of franchises. They begin with breathless delight and end with a wheezing sigh. And so it is with the Die Hard series. Bruce Willis, whose name was not above the title in the first installment, was a quipping wonder as police detective John McClane, a man out to save his marriage… Read More »
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