Salt (2010)

Salt (2010)

Salt is your run-of-the-mill summer action movie with a twisted story akin to The Bourne series or James Bond of old. Like those movies the action is over the top and crazy, guns blaze and sparks fly but the PG-13 rating spares us the blood and guts that should accompany such wicked projectiles. One scene has Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) killing a guy by ramming...

Hollywood to rethink the casting of A-listers

Hollywood to rethink the casting of A-listers

So it seems that something I have been saying for the longest time is coming to fruition with Hollywood using no names instead of the big named known actors. Some of my favorite films for the past two years have avoided this and done quite well in doing so. One thing that I have always said is that if the actor is bigger than the movie, that actor will always be...

Wanted

Wanted

Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series and directed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history – the Night Watch series) WANTED is the story of one normal guy’s journey into the world of assassins where he is transformed into the unparalleled enforcer Wesley Gibson....

Beowulf (2007)

Beowulf (2007)

I am Beowulf! You’ve probably heard, read or seen the story of history’s first superman “Beowulf” at one time or the other. My memory is a shaded one and it stems from an English class in high school where we read the poem passed down from the bards of Danish/Swedish lore. The Adaptation: Beowulf, the man who through strength and smarts, slew three...

Alexander

Alexander

I don’t get it… why do people hate this movie so much? I watched this movie late after being turned away by the negative pruning by literally everyone when it was on the big screen. Myself being a history buff had looked forward to seeing this tale of the great conqueror portrayed by one of our better actors in Colin Farrell… but everyone kept saying the...