Crime
Killing Them Softly writer-director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) has said he sought to bring out the relevance of George V. Higgins’s 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade about the criminal un...
When the first James Bond film was released, it was at the height of the Cold War, which created incredible tension between the Western World and the Soviet Union and its communist allies. In this context, it made sense that We...
Based on the James Patterson novel Cross, Alex Cross is a shoddily made, half-assed attempt to bring back the fictional character that Morgan Freeman portrayed in two previous films. After bad dialogue, the real problem is the ...
A struggling, alcoholic writer, Marty (Colin Firth) can’t get past the title page of his screenplay, “Seven Psychopaths.” Friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) , a struggling actor and a dog “borrower” who nabs neighborhood pups so his a...
When the thriller Taken came out four years ago, star Liam Neeson wasn’t quite believable as Bryan Miller, an ex-CIA operative who still kicks some serious ass. Now 60, Neeson struggles even more in Taken 2, a sequel that finds...
The young adrenaline-junkie LAPD officers in End of Watch are as fool-hardy as they are unlucky. The partners are put on a new beat in South Central Los Angeles after being cleared of a shooting. While on the lookout for guns, ...