While he doesn’t live in a cave of wear a cape, James Bond has more in common with a certain Gotham-based crimefighter than either party would be willing to admit. At least in their cinematic outings, they both have parallel histories of strong starts to their respective series followed by eventual and continuous decay as [...]
Body of Lies: What I Thought Ridley Scott directs a screenplay by William Monaghan that adopted a novel from David Ignatius. Monaghan also wrote the Departed, which was bad-ass and shows he has a knack for adaptation. The result here is a film that reflects its pedigree as a page-turning thriller, but is curiously short [...]
I am a movie guy, which should come as no shock to anyone that’s known me for more than five minutes. I like almost every genre, and I like previews, I like popcorn, and I like that delightfully squicky feeling you get when the rubber sole of your sneakers gets more traction than it should [...]
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? is Morgan Spurlock’s follow up to Supersize Me. It first came out back in April, and I meant to see it at the time but I think I was too busy shaking with pre-exam anxiety to get out to the theaters. It just opened here in Australia, [...]
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a hot Cyborg Secret Agent had to battle a Knight with full medieval plate armor in a post-apocalyptically feudal Scotland? If your answer is no, then you probably have no business watching Doomsday, the latest film from Neil Marshall. This past weekend presented a dearth of new [...]