Lucky

Lucky

A self-help author is tormented on a nightly business by a home-invading killer in Lucky. May Ryer (Brea Grant) is a notable self-help author, whose latest book hasn’t been selling as well as her first. One night. May discovers a masked invader at her house and her husband Ted (Dhruv Uday Singh) matter-of-factly mentions that…

Glass

Glass

M. Night Shyamalan returns to the world of Unbreakable two decades later in Glass. For the past 19 years, David Dunn (Bruce Willis) has been working as a vigilante superhero the media has nicknamed “The Overseer.” With the help of his son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark), David has been tracking down Kevin Wendell Crumb (James…

Death Wish

Death Wish

Bruce Willis stars in a remake of the 1974 cult classic in Death Wish. Dr. Paul Kersey (Willis) is a trauma surgeon in Chicago, who has a seemingly happy life with his wife Lucy (Elisabeth Shue) and daughter Jordon (Camila Morrone), despite the fact that Paul’s younger brother Frank (Vincent D’Onofrio) is always asking for money. However,…

Lucky

Lucky

A 90 year old atheist navy veteran contemplates his mortality in Lucky. Living in a small town in the California desert, Lucky (Harry Dean Stanton) has a very specific daily routine, which includes doing the crossword at the local diner run or conversing with his friends at the bar. However, one day Lucky’s routine is…

A Hard Day

A Hard Day

A detective becomes the victim of blackmail in A Hard Day. On his way to his mother’s funeral, Detective Ko Gun-soo (Sun-kyun Lee) accidentally runs over an individual in the middle of the road. Detective Ko tries to cover up this hit-and-run and, right when it appears that he has succeeded, he receives a call from…

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Nine years after the original, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller return for more tales from Sin City.  In the titular story A Dame to Kill For, photographer Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) is approached for a favour by his highly seductive ex-lover Ava Lord (Eva Green).  However, Dwight soon gets more than he bargained for and…

RED 2

RED 2

Those Retired and Extremely Dangerous secret agents are back for another mission in RED 2.  Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) has gotten used to living a domestic life, though the same can’t necessarily be said about his somewhat bored girlfriend Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker).  Frank finds himself called back in action again when he and Marvin Boggs…

A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard

Since the first Die Hard way back in 1988, the character of John McClane has been Bruce Willis‘ signature film character.  The series returned after a 12 year absence with 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard and, six years later, John McClane returns for the fifth time with A Good Day to Die Hard. When…

Looper

Looper

Ever since the release of the high school-set noir Brick in 2005, which I consider to be one of my all-time favourite films, I have considered Rian Johnson to be a director to keep an eye on.  For his third, and most ambitious, feature Looper, Johnson reunites with Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a sci-fi…

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2

When The Expendables came out in 2010, it was advertised as being the ultimate all-star action film.  While it still turned out OK enough, it didn’t really turn out to be the film that it was hyped up to be.  The Expendables 2, on the other hand, is exactly the film that I was expecting the…