Frank Kitchen is an assassin who has done bad things. But when he takes out the brother of Dr. Rachel Jane (Sigourney Weaver), a megalomaniac in her own right, Kitchen becomes Jane's target. Jane has Kitchen captured by Honest John (a brief cameo by Anthony LaPaglia),...
All I could remember about?Bambi was that his mother died. And that Thumper came along. Beyond that, there were no childhood memories to conjure when considering the importance of the little fawn in the pantheon of Walt Disney's creations. But on the release of the...
A Cure for Wellness?is a classic case of misdirection. Justin Haythe has the screenwriting credits on?Snitch, The Lone Ranger,?and?Revolutionary Road, none of which would have prepared me for the strange, twisted, and critical take revealed in the darkest of...
From 2005 to 2010, CBS ran six seasons of a show that made math cool again. Now, just as Netflix has pulled?Numb3rs?from streaming, audiences everywhere can purchase the complete six seasons on DVD from CBS/Paramount Pictures. As brothers, FBI agent Don (Rob Morrow)...
Englishman Stuart Hazeldine has a host of screenplays and directorial work to his resume, but it took the second coming of?The Shack?to get his name onto the marquees in the States. When he first read the novel, the writer/director/producer was aware of a plan to make...
On the last day of school at Roosevelt High School, the students are out of control and the teachers are fighting for their jobs. If this sounds like?Lean on Me?or?Stand and Deliver, let's be clear that it's not. It's a?Superbad/Neighbors?take on the high school...
Ten years ago, when I first read Wm. Paul Young's novel?The Shack, I was drawn in by the murder mystery: young Mack Phillips loses his daughter to a serial killer. Who killed little Missy? I wondered as I read. Suddenly, I found myself in the middle of a theological...
In the fifteen years I've spent writing about media online, only three things have earned me digital (and real-life) tongue-lashings. My proposal that?Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice?is better than?Captain America: Civil War. My belief that?The Shack?explains...
The Godfather?is forty-five years old. Let that soak in for a minute. Now, Paramount Pictures has re-released?The Godfather?trilogy on Blu-ray for fans who want to collect them in high definition. But Francis Ford Coppola's film has defined mob movies since then, and...