Gone are the days when a cast of white men carry the action thriller. Since the premiere of?The Fast & The Furious, the tide has risen, bringing diversity and creativity to Hollywood’s action films.?Widows, a heist film with political ramifications and a deep dive into the stages of grief, shows good and evil on both…
In?Castle Rock, the Hulu original series based on the world that author Stephen King horrifically mastered, a long-forgotten inmate in Shawshank State Penitentiary is discovered when the warden commits suicide and untouched areas of the prison are examined. When an estranged son of Castle Rock is called in as the inmate’s lawyer, a series of…
The sixth installment of the?Mission Impossible?films, and the second directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (Rogue Nation), arrived this weekend with a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, the?Justice League-impacting Henry Cavill mustache, and the promise of more death-defying stunts by the ageless Tom Cruise. But haven’t we seen it all, already? Blame Lorne Balfe’s score,…
James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) has seen it all as a U.S. Marine and a member of a black ops team known as Overwatch. As the film opens, the team takes down a Russian safehouse stateside and executes the inhabitants. Fastforwarding a year and a half later, the team ends up grinding at desk jobs until…
In the mid-1980s, Lee David Zlotoff wrote for?Hill Street Blues?and later produced?Remington Steele; he even directed?The Spitfire Grill. But his greatest contribution to modern media was the creation of?MacGuyver, the story of a troubleshooter for the Phoenix Foundation (and also an agent of a shadowy branch of the U.S. government). MacGuyver regularly found himself in…
Ron Stallworth is the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s, and while assigned to the intelligence division, he calls the number for the local Klu Klux Klan. Invited to the chapter, Stallworth puts his Jewish co-worker up to impersonating him at the meeting. Before too long, the black man…
Time Freak tells a story as old as time – a geeky, hyper intelligent young man loses his beautiful girlfriend and struggles to find ways to win her back. The difference in Andrew Bowler?s film? The scientific savant uses time travel to try and change the outcome of their breakup, often to hilarious results. Starring…
Good Morning, Vietnam.?Dead Poets Society. The Fisher King. Hook. Aladdin. Mrs. Doubtfire. Good Will Hunting. Patch Adams.? For a decade in the 1980s and 1990s, Robin Williams was everywhere on screen, delighting adults?and?children. Doing something that seemed impossible, the often profane comedian transitioned from the role of manic comic to manic family entertainer without ever…
Paul Becker is a choreographer, but don?t assume that means he is solely involved in putting dancers through their paces. Involved in choreographing scenes on television (Riverdale, Once Upon a Time) and films (Suckerpunch, Deadpool, Ralph Breaks the Internet), Becker has now moved forward with a career directing films. With his debut, Breaking Brooklyn, Becker…
Audiences have fascinations with films about sharks. Whether it’s?Jaws,?The Shallows,?or Sharknado, the track record is off the charts. But I am not one of those people who shares the fascination because?I really like the ocean! So, with a mix of trepidation and fear, overcome by my Jason Statham fandom, I watched?The Meg, which was a…
