Movie Review: ‘Warcraft’ Starring Travis Fimmel and Paula Patton
It’s no secret that movies based on video/computer games have never fared too well. Just glancing through the list of movies, the various Rotten Tomatoes scores read more like a senior class’s ACT scores than a rating. The mere mention of the name Uwe Boll makes film critics and video game players alike cringe in […]
Movie Review: ‘Lone Survivor’ Starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana
It may be the fact that many of my relatives have served in the armed forces (one of my great cousins was in the second wave at Normandy). It may be the fact that a lot of my friends currently are serving. It may just be that I’m jingoistic to a fault. Whatever the reason, […]
Movie Review: ‘Contraband’ Starring Mark Wahlberg
I think it says something about the new Mark Wahlberg vehicle, Contraband, that I keep forgetting its name. What is it again? Contraption? Contraception? In the end, I made up a trick to remember: an image of Mark Wahlberg wearing a new ultra conservative brand of Ray-Bans while he steals piles of money. Unfortunately the film […]
CONTRABAND Opens January 13! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!
Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best — running contraband — to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is […]
Sam Worthington Taking Another Sci-Fi Adventure
With TERMINATOR SALVATION, AVATAR, and CLASH OF THE TITANS, Sam Worthington was looking like the new “it” action star for studios to turn to. The problem was that two out of three of those films were not good, and I personally think AVATAR is over-rated. Since then, Worthington has starred in two smaller films, THE […]
Movie Review: “The Mechanic” Starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster
Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland star in this remake of Charles Bronson’s 1972 film of the same name, “The Mechanic.” Arthur Bishop (Statham) is a ruthless and calculating hitman who finds himself being forced to assassinate Harry (Sutherland), his long term mentor and father figure. After Harry’s death, his estranged son Steve (Foster) […]
Another Take By Zac: Film Review: The Mechanic
The Mechanic is a fun hitman in training film that features a solid relationship between its leads, good action beats, and tight filmmaking that doesn’t really waste a minute. Arthur Bishop is the man. Working for a covert government(?) agency, Bishop is tasked with the hardest of the hits that come across their plate and […]
“The Mechanic” HD Trailer Starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster
The remake of the Charles Bronson film of the same name had a trailer released earlier this year, and it reminded me that Ben Foster has not grown into the actor I thought he would. Watching TV in the 90s you might have seen Foster as a little pipsqueek on a Disney show called Flash […]
The Messenger
Oren Moverman’s The Messenger is a great honest look into the side of war we rarely see, the deceased family dealing with receiving the news of the passing, and the results are a film filled with sadness, anger, and humor surrounding this delicate and vulnerable situation. The messenger in question is a staff sergeant, Will, […]
Trailer released for “The Messenger” starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson
In “The Messenger,” Ben Foster plays Will Montgomery – an officer in the U.S. Army that has been assigned the job of notifying the family members of recently fallen soldiers of the status of their loved ones. He takes on this difficult position with fellow officer Tony Stone, played by Woody Harrelson. The Messenger […]
