David Ayer’s movies have often straddled the line between edgelord wannabe grit and cartoonish macho fantasy — although his best films, like WWII tank…
Given the well-publicized fate of the ostensibly never-to-be-released Coyote vs. Acme, it’s sort of a miracle that there’s a new Looney Tunes movie at…
You could argue that it’s extremely ironic that The Electric State, an absolutely dismal movie about humanity learning to love corporate-branded A.I. robots rising…
Depending on who you talk to, Paul W.S. Anderson might be considered a hack who makes demonstrably janky movies based adapted from the lesser…
When Chris Evans left the role of Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe turned to his colleague Sam Wilson, aka The…
It’s a little hard to tell if Old Guy, a new thriller comedy about, well, an old guy who is also a hitman, is…
Veteran action director Martin Campbell seems to be more prolific than ever these days, having just released his women-on-a-mission war film Dirty Angels a…
Den of Thieves, 2018’s Dad Movie par excellence, came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of brows high, low, and middle with equal…
Ah, Mel Gibson. Mad Mel. The man who went from one of the biggest movie stars in the world to a relative pariah due…
Perhaps good things happen in airports on Christmas Eve in real life, but never in the movies. Carry-On is no exception, a reasonably diverting thriller…
Ever since the disaster that was Green Lantern, one of action cinema’s surest old hands and biggest directors of the ’90s has been toiling…
As Werewolves opens, we’re informed that the previous year a supermoon event turned everyone who came into contact with moonlight into a werewolf, leading…
Way back in 2000, coming off a critical and box office slump that consumed most of the ’90s, Ridley Scott struck back with Gladiator.…
As connoisseurs of DTV action cinema well know, even the most promising film is likely to wind up being about 15 minutes of good…
Filmgoers, and genre fans more specifically, know that it’s hard to mess up those little two-handers about a killer in an isolated space cat-and-mousing…
Remember the first Venom movie? No, not Spider-Man 3, but the 2018 project with Tom Hardy that somehow still seems like it came out…
Is it an extra cute joke that Bookworm is yet another movie where Elijah Wood goes trundling through the New Zealand countryside in search…
After Guillermo del Toro’s well-liked and richly imagined Hellboy films, as well as 2019’s misbegotten David Harbour-led attempted reboot, it may have seemed like…