A wealthy Korean family is tormented by a vengeful spirit in The Wrath. The heirs of the family of Madame Shin are being killed off on their wedding way by the vengeful spirit of a woman. Ok-bun is a young beggar, who is married off to Shin’s youngest son, in a last-ditch effort to break…
A stoner finds out he is a CIA assassin in American Ultra. Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) is a pot smoking loser, who does not consider himself worthy of the affections of his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), whom he is working up the courage to propose to. However, unbeknownst to him, Mike was part of a secret CIA…
Liam Neeson plays an ex-mob enforcer protecting his estranged son in the thriller Run All Night. Jimmy Conlon (Neeson) is an aging hitman haunted by the crimes of his past. He has fallen out with his son Michael (Joel Kinnaman), who he hasn’t seen for five years, and his only true friend is his old…
By some interesting coincidence, we seem to be in the middle of an “1980s Action Star Comeback Tour.” Two weeks ago saw the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand, which I actually ended up enjoying. In two weeks from now, Bruce Willis will be returning for his fifth Die Hard movie, which will…
I suppose that I shall start by saying that, even though the film is called The Raven (and features plenty of ravens within the film), it has nothing at all to do with Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem (if you want an adaptation, watch the 1963 Vincent Price film). I suppose the title is meant as…
I don’t know where to begin when it comes to Wrath of the Titans. I actually somewhat enjoyed the previous film Clash of the Titans (even though I decided to give it half a point less in my rating). That film still ended up being somewhat watchable, despite being one of the first (of many) victims of…
It was a busy day of movie screenings last night. First up was a screening of this Indonesian action film, which won the Midnight Madness People’s Choice award at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. It was definitely a high-octane film. The film features many crazy martial arts movies, along with some extreme violence (with the…
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to always include Meet the Parents and its sequel Meet the Fockers amongst the DVDs I take with me to my family’s cottage and I often will watch both films over the course of an afternoon. I thought the first film was (and still is) a…
After the combination the Toronto Film Festival and my trip to Calgary, I had a bit of a backlog of movies I wanted to see. As such, this week I decided to see the three-week old Devil, instead of one of the newer releases. For this film M Night Shyamalan moves into the producer’s seat,…
After over eight months of waiting, I finally got to check out the The Brothers Bloom. Was it worth the wait? Yeah, I would say so. It’s a more lighter film than, director Rian Johnson’s previous film, Brick and I thought it was a fun little con film. Most of the comedy in the film…
