The Equalizer (2014)

Denzel is BACK!!!…even though I’m not sure The Man ever left. With this movie, he re-teams with his ‘Training Day’ director Antoine Fuqua to give us a gritty and updated film adaptation of the late 80’s TV show of the same name. In ‘Training Day’, the two crafted a nasty, conniving shithead in the form […]

Oculus (2013)

As I’ve mentioned (more than once), I do love me a good horror flick…especially if I’ve been lucky enough to have caught said horror flick with little to no knowledge of the actual plot. This was the case with ‘Oculus’. I knew that it was generally well-received, featured Scottish hottie Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) and […]

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Ok, so this review is NOT going to go the way I originally thought it would. Let me lay some groundwork here. I love ‘film noir’. There’s just something so slick and over-the-top about it. It’s pure ‘style’; style that can’t be mistaken for anything other than what it is. It’s largely rooted in a […]

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Now this flick…was a friggin blast! Yet again, Marvel proves that they’re VERY good at calculating the method, presentation, and marketing of their films. Their success streak, going back to the original ‘Iron Man’ (2008), is fast approaching the stuff of movie studio legend (ya kinda gotta feel for the noticeably lagging DC Comics right […]

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

Very recently, I introduced my awesomely curious girlfriend to the hostile wastelands of the original Mad Max Trilogy (1979-1981-1985) and, after falling in love with ‘Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) all over again, I became curious about other science fiction flicks that took inspiration from (or directly ripped off) THAT well-constructed (and ballsy!) […]

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll undoubtedly say it again: Tom Cruise is very nearly the definition of ‘contradiction’ for me. On one hand, I think the man is a delusional wackjob member of a highly placed and sinister cult, who is somewhat out of touch with ‘reality’, and is fueled by a gargantuan ego. […]

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

I think that a safe argument can be made for the idea that ‘X-Men’ (2000) is REALLY the flick that kicked off the current Hollywood obsession with comic-book properties. Sure, everyone is aware of ‘Superman’ (1978) and ‘Batman’ (1989) being milestones in the history of comic book adaptations, but before ‘X-Men’, they weren’t taken all […]

Godzilla (2014)

In 1954, Japan’s Toho Company unleashed ‘Gojira’ upon its movie-going public. Influenced, at least in part, by the original ‘giant rampaging beast’ movie ‘King Kong’ (1933), ‘Gojira’ was a scary cautionary tale stemming from the horrors visited upon the Japanese people in the aftermath of the nuke drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; the […]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

When I first heard that the iconic Marvel character Captain America was going to get The Big Screen treatment, in the wake of the wildly successful original 2008 ‘Iron Man’, I was instantly skeptical. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I’m a proud Canadian, and don’t necessarily relate to the nauseatingly patriotic […]

The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka The Devil’s Pass) (2013)

‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master’ (1988) ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane’ (1990) ‘Die Hard 2′ (1990) Cliffhanger’ (1993) What do all these awesome movies have in common? Finnish director Renny Harlin, that’s ‘what’. Harlin first caught my eye when I snuck into ‘Die Hard 2′ with a buddy (way too young, […]