’71 (2014)
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 16, 2015 · Last modified December 5, 2019
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 19, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2018
The first The Purge had been one of the surprise hits of 2013, earning $64 million on a $3 million budget. What it had was its interesting concept. What it lacked was the budget to really...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 8, 2013 · Last modified July 23, 2018
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...
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