A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard works fine as a run-of-the-mill action flick. The story is easy to follow, the action is frequent, and there are a lot of cool smash-em up visuals. Though I must admit I felt bad for the innocent civilian drivers who got decimated during the big car chase scene. The […]

Looper

Well that was quite the movie. Its strong and weak aspects are really pulling at me here as I try to form an overall opinion. So lets start off by talking about why this movie is great. Then I can talk about why its not. It takes balls to tackle a serious time travel story, […]

The Blu-ray Files #010

Die Hard – Reviews for the Die Hard blu-ray had me not expecting much when I watched it, but when I did I thought it looked incredible.  Nothing outstanding like Braveheart of Apocalypse Now, but just consistently really good.  The high definition was very apparent and just made the film look beautiful in its own […]

RED

I went into RED expecting a comedy. What I got instead was a fun action story with some funny parts thrown in along the way, and I think it turned out better that way. Its interesting to watch Bruce Willis as retired CIA agent Frank trying to adjust to a normal life in the beginning, […]

The Expendables

First off, I want to say that I admire Stallone’s vision with The Expendables. He made this movie for a specific group of people (those who enjoy violent, gritty action a la the 80s) without really giving a damn about the other facets of the wider movie-going audience. He set out to film a throwback […]