Review: Pacific Rim
When talking about Pacific Rim you really have to start with expectations. Expectations for this particular film were all over the place. Those who ...
Tag: Action
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Secretly Greatly
Before the NYAFF screening of Secretly Greatly, director Jang Cheol-Soo (the man behind the oft-mentioned-by-me Bedevilled), came out and said a few words. ...
Check out these awesome Mondo Pacific Rim posters
Earlier this morning Entertainment Weekly debuted these awesome posters via Mondo for Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming monster-robot action movie Pacific Rim. There’s four ...
Features
NRH’s Weekly Analysis: Lost Action Hero
Last Action Hero recently turned 20, and it’s time to reexamine it. Two decades later, it’s still largely misunderstood. Holding only a 39% on Rotten ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Taiwan Black Movies
Sometimes it’s difficult for documentaries to convey all they hope to convey, especially when the documentary is about a film genre or a ...
New Terminator film is a reboot, new trilogy starts 2015
So much for Terminator 5. It turns out that the new Terminator movie is a franchise reboot that kicks off a new standalone ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: The Bullet Vanishes
There’s an observation in This Is Spinal Tap that sums up the dilemma of many detective stories: there’s a fine line between clever ...
Four clips from Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Four new clips from Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (aka Mighty Morphin Power Jaegers) have popped up, and the biggie is the one ...
Trailers
Trailer: Escape Plan
Escape Plan stars two big-name action heroes; Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as muscle-bound convicts who team up to escape from an inescapable ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
Ip Man starring Donnie Yen and directed by Wilson Yip is one of the best martial arts films of the last 10 years. It ...
Man of Steel features $2 trillion in overall damage
I’m probably the only person on staff who outright hates Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, which Matt enjoyed but also found problematic as ...
Trailer: Kick Ass 2
A new zip-zap-zoom fancy trailer for the hyper-violent, hyper-curse-word nonsense sequel to Kick Ass has hit the webs. The trailer shows off more Jim Carrey ...