Starship Troopers will lessen violence, thought
Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers was an oddly satirical action film with just enough bite to make it more profound than ...
Tag: Action
Jackie Chan slates new English-language Hollywood film
Jackie Chan is setting up his next movie, though sadly it’s not a remake of Gene Kelly’s It’s Always Fair Weather. (Maybe next ...
New Expendables 2 images look expendable
Aside from being a bit more, say, “modern warfare” than one might imagine, these screenshots from upcoming sequel The Expendables 2 promise precisely what ...
Trailers
Trailer: Assassin’s Bullet
Before you watch this trailer for Assassin’s Bullet, marvel at the film’s poster. There’s an exploding car, Christian Slater multi-tasking with a phone AND ...
Bourne gets bumped for better box office
It is one hell of a crowded summer. So much so that even a massive franchise needs to watch where its going. While ...
NYAFF Review: The Swift Knight
[For the month of July, we will be covering the New York Asian Film Festival and the (also New York-based) Japan Cuts Film ...
Trailers
Trailer: Dredd
I haven’t read a single Judge Dredd comic or issue of 2000 A.D. featuring the man. It’s one of my gaping holes when it ...
Trailers
Trailer: Taken 2
Here is the international trailer for Taken 2: The Sequel. The revenge is set up, Famke Janssen is put in peril, and there ...
Reviews
Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
You would expect a film called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to be both low budget and low brow. Even if it wasn’t those ...
Bruce Lee’s last script to be produced
Once adapted posthumously into 1978’s Circle of Iron, martial arts icon Bruce Lee’s final script, The Silent Flute, co-written with James Coburn and ...
Wanted 2 is coming, has a twist, and will shock you
I liked the original Wanted. It may bear no resemblance to the comic it got its name from, and it may suffer from ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: War of the Arrows
[For the month of July, we will be covering the New York Asian Film Festival and the (also New York-based) Japan Cuts Film ...