Robin Hood: A fast, crazy, misfire
One of the reasons that Robin Hood (2018) is premiering 110 years after the first Robin Hood film, the 1908 film, Robin Hood and His Merry Men, is that some of the greatest actors and filmmakers have brought...
Hunter Killer: A Wet Mess Of A Film
Dracula 2000 will be remembered more for being one of Gerard Butler’s first feature roles more than being a good movie. Because it was anything but. Poor directing, bad acting, even worse dialogue. Butler...
Free Solo on the Edge of Brilliance
At the North end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite national park stands a rock formation that has become a haven for mountain climbers from around the world. It stands 3000 feet in the air, made entirely of...
Venom cut and sucks
Here’s a bit of history for you, the reason that Marvel Comics took a chance and created their own production company is because the movies studios were churning out in the early 2000’s were never once...
SuperGrid fires on all cylinders
If, for some reason, you haven’t seen film director Lowell Dean’s 2014 pulpy romp, Wolfcop, do yourself a favour and see it. Wolfcop is what catapulted Dean’s career into the toast of Canadian genre...
Knuckleball – Slow pitch, great hit
Michael Ironside is a legend, nobody can deny that. He’s done everything from flying with Tom Cruise in Top Gun to providing the voice of Tom Clancy’s Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell video game series and...
Mile 22 is an intense and wild ride
“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because brought men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”. A George Orwell quote spoken by Mark Wahlberg in the beginning of his new film, Mile 22...
The Meg is a watered down mess of a movie
Coming out of The Meg had me thinking more of another modern monster film, Del Toro’s Pacific Rim. A film that’s every bit as great as now as it was in theatres 5 years ago. The reason, Pacific Rim is so...
Sicario: Day of the Soldado: A dark, gripping, intense story.
Taylor Sheridan was a working actor who wrote the script for Sicario when he was 40 years old. Sicario, a story about the American war on drugs and the cartels in Mexico and South America that would...
Infinity War: Epic action, epic characters
The Marvel Cinematic Universe culminating in Avengers: Infinity War. 18 Films, 10 Years, was it worth the wait? No, it wasn’t. But not for what you think. Marvel seemingly acknowledges its lack of villainy...