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Cleaner feels like a relic from a bygone era. The many comparisons it’s received to Die Hard are debatable, although the marketing is certainly inviting them. To be fair, their cores are the same: an action-thriller in the style of an airport novel about an unassuming person thrust into a dangerous situation whose skills and […]
Lisey’s Story has one of the best television casts ever constructed: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Allen, Ron Cephas Jones, Dane Dehaan, Michael Pitt. I mean, come on, three of those actors in a show would be incredible, but all of them? It’s an embarrassment of riches! And each one is acting […]
Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre of fiction that the British excel at. A film that is one of the best in the sub-genre is 2006’s Children of Men. In the year 2027, the world has gone to hell. No child has been born for 18 years, the youngest person in the world has been murdered, […]
Gemini Man was a high-concept action-thriller that has been in development since 1997. Directors like Tony Scott and Curtis Hanson were attached as well as actors like Nicolas Cage, Mel Gibson, and Clint Eastwood before Ang Lee and Will Smith took it on. Henry Brogan (Smith) is the best assassin the American government has. He’s able […]
The Informer is a grim and gritty crime thriller that features an ensemble cast and attempts to cover a number of storylines. Peter Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is an FBI informer working undercover in the Polish mob in New York. Koslow gets put into an impossible situation when a cop gets killed during an operation. The […]
The X-Men are set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to Disney’s purchase of 20th Century Fox. Many fans have been wanting this for years and they are now getting their wish. With an MCU X-Men film being inevitable it would mean that there would be new cast to play the mutants. There are hundreds of […]