Miss Sloane (2016)
Jessica Chastain (The Huntsman, Crimson Peak) stars as the Machiavellian strategist Elizabeth Sloane, a shrewd and brilliantly effective lobbyist in Washington DC, whose main goal in any situation is to win at any cost, even...
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The Purge: Election Year (2016)
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder is already inherently pushing the limits of credibility by having the same character involved in a similar plot of battling terrorists at their point of attack. Some might view it...
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Kiss the Girls is a film based on the James Patterson bestseller, slickly directed by Gary Fleder (Impostor, Runaway Jury), and relatively engaging until about the final third of the film. Like so many mystery-thrillers, there...
Meteor Man (1993)
I like films about superheroes. I like Robert Townsend. A film by Robert Townsend about superheroes would seem like it couldn’t miss with me. It does — and by a lot. Meteor Man was created...
D.C. Cab (1983)
DC Cab is a movie that, from all outward appearances, looks like it could be a fun, lowbrow comedy that, with the diverse group of character actors, should deliver some classic moments of hilarity. ...
Enemy of the State (1998)
DC lawyer Robert Clayton Dean (Smith) is the unwitting recipient of a tape recording of a murder. Not just any murder, but of an assassination made by none other than the senior adviser to the...