I haven’t seen a bicycle messenger movie this good since Quicksilver!  Actually, that 1986 Kevin Bacon film wasn’t very good, so Premium Rush certainly qualifies as the best bicycle messenger movie I have ever seen. Much of the rush of Premium […]

Moviegoers around the world continually chastise Hollywood filmmakers for their perceived lack of originality, and for the copious amounts of cinematic crap they produce.  I know; I’ve done it, too.  Yet every once in a while someone makes a movie […]

I’ve enjoyed the Matt Damon-led Jason Bourne films of the past decade, although, truth be told, I doubt if I could coherently explain just what it is about Treadstone and Blackbriar that is forcing the CIA to hunt Bourne all […]

I must confess that entertainment dealing with witches, curses and magic — fantasy elements — makes me yearn for something else.  Zombies, however, are another story, and, thankfully, there are seven zombies to only one witch in ParaNorman, a new […]

When it comes to movie mayhem, nobody holds a candle to Sylvester Stallone.  In the movies he has destroyed people on a very personal level (the brutal Rocky fights, the underrated Nighthawks, even the first Rambo movie, First Blood), and then, […]

The conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is a mixed bag for me — though I have generally liked each entry, and that is true this time as well.  For all of Nolan’s genuine artistry and dedication to making his […]

I don’t really understand Hollywood’s sudden desire to remake Paul Verhoeven’s unofficial sci-fi trio of 1987 – 1997, but new versions of RoboCop and Starship Troopers are underway and Total Recall is now in theaters.  There was no good reason to remake Total […]

Just in time for prime political season comes this Congressional comedy from Jay Roach, best known as the director of all three Austin Powers comedies and the first two Fockers family comedies.  A highbrow he is not, much to the detriment […]