The First Purge (2018)
The First Purge is a prequel to the other three Purge films that have been released thus far, describing the genesis of the project in which U.S. citizens are allowed to commit any crime, within...
Category: Thriller
Skyscraper (2018)
“Die Hard in a building” is how the film has been coyly referred to by some (my choice of title would have been, “Rock Hard“), as we have a tough hero in the titular building...
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel, “Tony and Susan”, Nocturnal Animals has two storylines to follow, one the presumed reality, and the other a presumed fictitious one dramatized from the contents of the manuscript of a...
Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018)
In this second solo Ant-Man adventure, set before the cataclysmic events in the climax of The Avengers: Infinity War, ex-burglar Scott Lang (Rudd, Mute) is found serving out the final days of his two-year sentence under...
Snatched (2017)
Amy Schumer stars as Emily Middleton, who cajoles her divorced doting mother Linda (Hawn, Everyone Says I Love You) to accompany her on a non-refundable vacation to a posh resort in Ecuador she booked...
Ready Player One (2018)
In the year 2045, orphaned teenage Columbus, Ohio resident Wade Watts (Sheridan, X-Men Apocalypse) lives, like seemingly everyone else around not working in the upper echelons of a corporation, in squalor (called ‘The Stacks”, which...
Mute (2018)
The Netflix film Mute is a passion project directed and co-written by Duncan Jones, who made a splash with Moon, then solidified his fans with Source Code, which is the primary interest for most people who seek this one out...
Batman (1989)
There is no denying that Tim Burton’s Batman is a marvel of art and set design, and if nothing else, quite the piece of eye candy. However, while the story-line is functional enough to still be...
Black Panther (2018)
Directed and co-written by Ryan Coogler, who has already been on a roll with noteworthy films like Fruitvale Station and Creed, takes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Panther, one of the better entries to date. Working well as a...
Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Fifty Shades Freed continues what you already expect from the series, and despite giving us better interplay among the leads and reducing the number of instances of overtly laughable dialogue, it can’t be “freed’...