The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009)

A sexy Murder Mystery with an extremely dark coat of paint about it; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish crime story directed by Niels Arden Oplev and based on a novel by the same name. On the surface it is a story about a wealthy old man who hires a famous journalist to investigate his missing family member of 40 years – a beautiful young woman...

Immortals (2011)

Immortals (2011)

A visual masterpiece that will only pale due to the fact that we saw this style before in 300; Immortals looks like another world or dreamscape rather than a historical depiction of earth or mythology. It is a graphic novel come alive with an attractive cast of good guys and horribly scarred and ugly bad guys. If you go into Immortals with the expectation of...

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...

A Serbian Film (2010)

A Serbian Film (2010)

A Serbian Film felt like Srdjan Spasojevic pulled up an Excel sheet one day, and sat around with a bunch of perverts to come up with all of the most deviant sexual taboos that they could fit into a movie and then drafted a story over it. I was not appalled, I was only slightly disgusted and I was never shocked, I was watching and waiting for the movie to truly...

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...