War Dogs (2016)
Loosely based on a true story chronicled in a 2011 “Rolling Stone” article and subsequent 2015 book (“Arms and the Dudes”) by Guy Lawson, War Dogs follows two lifelong friends, struggling massage therapist and bedsheet salesman...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller / War
by Vincent Leo · Published August 27, 2016 · Last modified July 26, 2018
Loosely based on a true story chronicled in a 2011 “Rolling Stone” article and subsequent 2015 book (“Arms and the Dudes”) by Guy Lawson, War Dogs follows two lifelong friends, struggling massage therapist and bedsheet salesman...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 19, 2016 · Last modified February 6, 2020
At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published August 7, 2015 · Last modified June 5, 2019
If your intent is to reboot the misguidedly jokey Tim Story Fantastic 4 films and “make it right this time”, and you make not only a film that is significantly worse, but it’s arguably one of...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 2, 2015 · Last modified August 9, 2018
The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone. You want to spit...
2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 23, 2014 · Last modified November 13, 2019
Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci-fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action-thriller scenario...
One can only wonder why this film, originally titled Are We Officially Dating?, didn’t go with the more appropriate title, This Awkward Movie, as this feeble rom-com by first-time writer-director Tom Gormican can never settle into anything...
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