H Categories Movies Reviews July 20, 2021 Hydra Blu-ray review: strong acting, great fights, killer mood Hydra, from master action director Kensuke Sonomura, boasts both thrilling duels between lethal assassins and warm, skillful character work.
T Categories Reviews TV July 16, 2021 The Loki finale: a god of mischief & a deal with the Devil The Disney+ series concludes (for now) on a mindbending cliffhanger that asks: what do you do when you no longer have glorious purpose?
R Categories Interviews More of a Comment Really Podcasts TV July 16, 2021 Reza Safinia on Warrior and the links between meditation and music The composer and multi-instrumentalist breaks down his score for the Bruce Lee-inspired action series, and his dual albums Yin and Yang.
T Categories Movies Reviews July 2, 2021 The Forever Purge closes the series with a nihilistic whimper James DeMonaco's bracing, didactic series about the evils of American carnage hits its end, as brutal as it is thunderously unsubtle.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 23, 2021 “F9” is more of the same, for better and for worse The latest entry of the perennial series is a mixed bag of the movies' trademark ridiculousness and shoddy, lackluster action sequences.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 12, 2021 “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” is a perpetual explosion with dialogue Patrick Hughes’ follow up to The Hitman’s Bodyguard brings plenty of action, but little else.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 10, 2021 “Infinite” reaches an impressive level of dumb Antoine Fuqua directs Mark Wahlberg in a tired load of action nonsense.
B Categories Anniversaries Features Movies May 27, 2021 Between Bayhem and banality: “Pearl Harbor” at 20 With his 2001 epic, Michael Bay solidified himself as an all-American auteur, as well as the bombastic concept of Bayhem.
P Categories Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You May 10, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: Get away from “The Getaway” Even early in his career, Philip Seymour Hoffman is too good for this dull shoot-em-up.
I Categories Movies Reviews May 6, 2021 In “Wrath of Man”, revenge is a dish best served lukewarm Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham reteam for a muscular, but clunky revenge thriller too committed to its convoluted structure.
