The Grandmaster (2013)
The unfortunate story behind The Grandmaster is how much of a labor of love it had been for its director/co-writer and acclaimed auteur Wong Kar-Wai (My Blueberry Nights), who spent the good part of a decade...
Category: Action
2 Guns (2013)
2 Guns is a meat-headed buddy action comedy that sports a few twists and turns, and a smattering of solid yuks, but fails to truly connect due to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s lack of...
The Wolverine (2013)
The Wolverine is the second attempt at a spinoff Wolverine adventure, and while this is better than the last try, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it does fall short of the pleasures of seeing Logan (Jackman) as part of...
Pacific Rim (2013)
Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...
The Heat (2013)
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig returns for another female-centric raunchy comedy and, for the most part, manages to strike gold yet again, at least in terms of generating requisite memorably funny moments. If you want an...
Man of Steel (2013)
Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...
The Purge (2013)
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Tony Stark returns in this post-The Avengers outing, this time with Jon Favreau stepping down as director, with Shane Black, who directed Downey to great critical success in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, stepping in to take...
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the second film in the series based on the Hasbro toy-line mostly popularized in the 1980s, coming after the weak first entry, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Though it is technically a...