— by RON WILKINSON — There are love stories set in wartime, and there are war stories with love affairs. It is a rare film that succeeds in combining a nail-biting spy story with one of redemption through self-sacrifice. This movie does it by combining an ambivalent German SS captain wit[...]
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Review: Terminator Genisys
— by RON WILKINSON — Ignore the time travel science-babble and concentrate on the feeling of a nuclear holocaust that seethes into your theatre and plants flying buses in your lap. 3-D IMAX is the only way to see the latest in the Terminator franchise, a sci-fi cauldron with a, yes, char[...]
Review: The Water Diviner
— by RON WILKINSON — Russell Crowe comes out swinging with his narrative fiction feature directorial debut but fouls out as this war story drops off the deep end into the irretrievably maudlin. Screenwriters Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios are partly to blame, but Crowe should have k[...]
Review: Jack Reacher
— by ADAM DALE — While Tom Cruise has been a staple in the action genre for years, the aging star recently seemed to be slowing down his involvement in high intensity physical roles. However, if last year’s hit “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” proved anything, it’s that the 5[...]
A New Trailer for Jack Reacher
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — “One shot, one kill” is the military sniper’s creed – meaning each shot must count for the shooter. Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher, an Army Military Police officer who served during the Gulf War and has no home, no job, no car. As the opening mon[...]
A Good Die to Die Hard: Trailer
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — “Try not to make a bigger mess of things” Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, returning from “Live Free or Die Hard”) tells her father, John McClane (Bruce Willis), as she drops him off at the airport en route to Russia. It seems, though, [...]
Teaser Trailer: A Good Day to Die Hard
— by JOSUE SANCHEZ — This has been a phenomenally great week for fans of the “Die Hard” movies. As you may know, “A Good Day to Die Hard” — the fifth installment in the series — is currently filming in Moscow. Die-hard fans (pun intended) have been closely following i[...]