Revisiting Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

I still remember the hype around this movie and how excited teenage Ian was to see it.  I avoided knowing too much, but of course images of Amadala and Darth Maul would make their way to my retinas, which only amplified my anticipation.    And it worked.  I was very into this movie.  It was only […]

The Grey

The Grey is at its core a horror film. The movie tells the story of a band of plane crash survivors in Alaska trying to fend off a pack of wolves. It deals with this in a horror movie setting, where each camera framing makes us wonder if a wolf is going to jump out […]

The A-Team

The A-Team is the movie that The Expendables should have been. Where the Expendables tried to showcase a lot of tough guys with a lot of action, The A-Team set out to do the same thing except it managed to be fun at the same time. The A-Team was a movie which really shouldn’t have […]

Taken

This movie is just plain awesome. Its the story of an ex-cia agent whose daughter is kidnapped, and so he goes Jack Bauer on their a****. Liam Neeson is just plain awesome in this movie. He’s kicking a** and taking names later. I love all of the little tricks he uses in order to find […]