Wu Xia (2011)

Wu Xia (2011)

The cinematography is beautiful, from the lush green hills to the bright olive waters that house the grass stalks where the serenity is only broken by kung fu practitioners battling each other for the right to live.  The choreography is as clean as it gets, making sure that we don’t miss any breaks, blocks or punches. The fighting was Wing Chun styled with...

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)

Currently there’s a woman suing Drive for offering up a false impression with its trailer. Given that this lawsuit will rank up there with the most asinine reasons to sue a company, the fact of the matter is that she is right. The trailers offered up a Fast and Furious clone but in reality the movie was a dark, artsy, gritty, and violent mob picture. This...

Transformers: Dark of The Moon

Transformers: Dark of The Moon

So I finally saw Transformers : Dark of The Moon and unfortunately it did not wow me as much as some of my other former Transformers junkies said it would. I will be quite critical in this article so I will preface this by saying that the action in the last 20 minutes of the movie was by far some of the most amazing stuff I have ever seen on film. The shear...

Alphas – Season 1 Review

Alphas – Season 1 Review

SyFy has struck gold with it’s new series Alphas which is yet another take in the superhuman gene theory. Many people wrongly overlooked this show due to the fall from grace that Heroes had and their general unwillingness to view another “X-Men rip-off” as this genre is deemed. Though the origins of shows that deal with superhuman abilities...

Dororo (2007)

Dororo (2007)

In the East, demons are ranked by their ability to appear human versus their true monstrous form. So in movies that depict a demon that looks and sounds human, you know that you are seeing a master demon that has done many atrocities to gain that look. Demons gain the ability to look more human by devouring human body parts. If you pay attention to most movies...

Colombiana

Colombiana

Written by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton, Colombiana is a tale about a young girl who witnesses the death of her parents and is raised by her uncle to exact revenge. Borrowing from many revenge tales from the past, Colombiana pulls from elements that have worked in the past for many movies but inevitably fails for its inability to think outside of...