After the massive success of John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian in 1982, an avalanche of cheap sword-and-sorcery pictures flowed forth, eager to cash in on…
Following Steven Soderbergh’s Presence earlier in the year, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy is the second 2025 film to hang its haunted house conceit on a…
The Strangers – Chapter 2 (directed by Renny Harlin) occurs in the immediate aftermath of the carnage of Chapter 1. The incredibly concise narrative timeline…
Most great cinema centers around The Other — people who, fairly or unfairly, feel out of step with the society around them. Their idiosyncrasies allow…
Hot on the heels of the exemplary Diablo, Scott Adkins, the hardest-working man in DTV action, is back with Prisoner of War. It’s a “big”…
We get two post-apocalyptic action films starring Dave Bautista as a loner hero crossing a barren wasteland and taking a long train trip this year!…
Compulsion begins with a long, snaking POV tracking shot; we see only a pair of gloved hands as the camera enters a gated residence, scales…
Despite three decades of reliable character actor work and idiosyncratic supporting roles, it’s surprising to find that Tim Blake Nelson has seldom been granted the…
Since 1974, Troma Entertainment has enjoyed its position as the longest running independent film studio in the world, having been responsible for either the production…
The best action movie franchise of the 2020s is about a couple of teenage slackers who, when they aren’t being incredibly lazy, work as hired…
“We can’t stay down anymore!” This line from war-victim acting veteran Ni Ni is delivered as Ah Hua captures the galvanizing and inspirational spirit of…
Taking a look at a list of the 10 highest-grossing films worldwide of all-time, the suspects are usual: James Cameron sits there thrice, as does…
Did you know that because 1985’s Red Sonja, which starred Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger, was not actively based on Conan creator Robert Howard’s character…
The cold is often a conduit for ardent symbolism, whether in the frozen recesses of repressed memories or in the merciless invocation of human hubris…
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. When Tony Tost’s Americana, a flyover country-set crime drama built around an interconnected ensemble, premiered at the…
Perhaps as a means of drawing in a greater number of genre fans, the full title of Jimmy and Stiggs is being reported on some…
If you spend any time online, you’ve likely heard Quentin Tarantino wax poetic about making his tenth and, so he says, final film, a quixotic…
The film critic’s impulse to champion auteurist extravagance over solid but not showily executed directorial and writerly competency is an understandable one; we live in…
On the basis of his two solo outings as a writer-director, the filmmaker Zach Cregger has established a bit of a lane to himself in…
The most reliable formula in action cinema today is having Ma Dong-seok one-punch a bunch of anonymous stuntmen into a wall. After hitting it big…