As wretched a decade as it otherwise was, the '90s produced some damn fine action movies. I'm reminded of this fact by Olympus Has Fallen, a surprisingly hard-hitting and hard-R action movie whose premise fits squarely into the category of “why the hell hasn't this been done before? Specifically in
By 'eck, the young don't know they're born. Billy Liar is 50 this year but he's been 19 forever. The original novel by Keith Waterhouse has been adapted into a perpetually performed play, a film, a TV series and a musical, not to mention numerous references in poems, songs and
Praise be to the dark lord that it's better than Halloween II. So far Rob Zombie's directorial career has played out in two deranged parts. Part 1 was the exploitation gore fest of House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. They were violent and silly. I liked them. Then came
Stop the average man in the street and ask him to name the guy who did the special effects in Avatar, Avengers Assemble, The Hobbit or any other modern CGI-laden blockbuster and my guess is you’ll get a very blank look. Ask him who did the special effects in Jason
Heart broken Simon travels to Paris to be a douche-bag. Sounds curt and dismissive but that pretty much sums up the second film from Antonio Campos. Simon (Brady Corbet) arrives in France, still reeling from his recent break up with his longtime girlfriend. Increasingly lonely in a foreign land he seeks
