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The Last King of Scotland is the story of Idi Admin (Forest Whitaker), the leader who came to power in Uganda in a coup in the 1970s.  But the story is told through the eyes of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who is bored with his life in Scotland and decides to go and see [...]

With their premiere film writer/director team Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine gives us a pulse-pounding adrenaline-fueled action thriller starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart that starts with a rush and doesn’t stop that rush until the credits roll in Crank. Statham plays Chev Chelios, a hitman for a local organized crime gang, who awakens to [...]

Director Zack Snyder’s monumental Greco epic is something few have not yet heard about.  It skillfully combines an intense visual and coloring scheme, superb writing, fantastic acting, and absolutely monumental effects and sets to bring to life a famous battle in which a group of Greek soldiers were able to hold back the immense army [...]

Lucky Number Slevin can be seen almost as an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest from a more modern perspective with the clever, witty rapid speech of very early films.  The director Paul McGuigan seems to have made this adaptation work, and work very well at that. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lucky Number Slevin, 2006", [...]

Goofy and ridiculous would be an apt description of The Contract, the 2006 thriller starring Morgan Freeman as Frank Carden and John Cusack as Ray Keene, directed by Bruce Beresford.  This is a very interesting mix of absolutely ridiculous plot points, cliches, and poor writing to prevent the good cast line-up from living up to [...]

This is a pretty original concept that is effectively put on-screen. In the very near future, this movie shows an in-progress apocalypse in which all of the world except the United Kingdom has fallen because women are no longer able to get pregnant. It’s refreshing that the film-makers make no effort whatsoever [...]

I had high expectations for this movie having seen director Darren Aronofsky’s previous films: Pi and Requiem for a Dream and enjoying both immensely. That said, The Fountain has a significant depth to its plot that is typical for Aronofsky’s work, but in this case it seems to almost over-power the plot. [...]

The Last King of Scotland is the story of Idi Admin (Forest Whitaker), the leader who came to power in Uganda in a coup in the 1970s.  But the story is told through the eyes of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who is bored with his life in Scotland and decides to go and see [...]