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Minority Report was made almost twenty-five years ago and it still looks like the future. Philip K. Dick is, by far, the greatest science...
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Minority Report was made almost twenty-five years ago and it still looks like the future. Philip K. Dick is, by far, the greatest science...
If I could distill Jack Black’s cinematic persona to a single sentence it would be thus: he plays charismatic men with adolescent enthusiasm...
Hard Boiled is probably the best pure action film ever made, of any type, from any country. Full stop. John Woo’s incredible run of...
After two stately and haunting romantic thrillers: 2016’s The Handmaiden and 2022’s Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook’s newest film No Other Choice feels like...
There’s a tension at the heart of Godzilla as a franchise between the horrific origins of the character metaphor for the bomb dropping on...
The Killer is a major turning point in director John Woo’s career, one of the most internationally heralded Hong Kong films of all time,...
Smoke (1995) is a literary ode to small, beautiful things. Written by novelist Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), it began as an expansion...
The three theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films essentially straddle the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “boom” of the early 1990’s perfectly. The property began...
In 1986, John Woo was a young director working in Hong Kong caught, as so many young directors are, between artistic desire and...
The Two Jakes is a sequel made 16 years after the classic film, Chinatown ,without the services of Roman Polanski, the director or...
It’s not hard to see where the idea for a licensed Formula 1 film came from: James Mangold’s excellent 2019 film Ford v. Ferrari...
Fredrick Forsyth’s 1971 debut thriller The Day of the Jackal is one of the greatest works of “airport literature” ever made. The book’s...
In 1984 Tsui Hark was riding high on a number of critical and commercial successes and decided to open Film Workshop, a new production...
Hollywood had been circling Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the moment his WWF character exploded in popularity in 1998. After a tongue in...
Film noir was not a genre, like the Western, but a term applied by French critics after the Second World War for a glut...
Author’s Note: This film is available with both Spanish and English soundtracks. This review reflects the English dub. Earlier this year I reviewed...
What is it about the New Korean Cinema of the 21st century that allowed it to breakthrough so spectacularly into the American popular...
Is it possible to aim for authenticity in art, and through sheer technical excellence, end up reaching an even loftier plateau? Get Carter...
Hong Kong cinema of the 1980’s was an explosion of creativity as the New Wave of filmmakers that had broken into the industry...
The 2010 remake of The Karate Kid was a high point in Jackie Chan’s English language filmography. Translating the broad strokes of the 1984...
Jaws is the quintessential American adventure film. It is the product of a wunderkind director who turned a tortured production and an unfocused source...
The Amateur is based on a 1981 spy novel, but it feels like the elevator pitch was “What if pitch was “What if...
Nightwatch Nightwatch is a classic Euro-thriller: dripping in atmosphere, a thick layer of social commentary, and far more concerned with evoking a...
Certain classic westerns are more than films, they are the archetypes for entire story tropes. The formal basis for dozens of pastiches, parodies, and...