Need for Speed (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Based on a popular video game, Need for Speed is, for all its flashy modern trappings, essentially a B-movie, of …
Action Film
Action in the North Atlantic (1943) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Blockbuster action, 1943 style. I first saw this film as a kid, and some of the more vividly cruel touches, …
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The ole’ web-slinger is back: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is maturing into a mighty crime fighting-guy, but his lingering promise …
Divergent (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A self-evident cash-in on the new wave of films based on slick, action-filled books aimed at readers still in high …
The Seven-Ups (1973) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary
The simultaneous hits of The French Connection and Dirty Harry (1971), and the former film’s Oscar-garlanded prestige, sparked a small …
Word War Z (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Perhaps the most expensive remake of Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) anyone could ask for, Marc Forster’s big-budget zombie flick had …
The Lone Ranger (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Like Superman, who’s also had a mega-budget revisiting this year, the Lone Ranger speaks to a part of the psyche …
Iron Man Three (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The wave of action cinema Hollywood produced in the 1980s and early ‘90s finally retreated thanks to the convergence of …
The Bourne Legacy (2012) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The original Bourne trilogy grew out of Doug Liman’s smoothly orchestrated, fashionably reserved 2001 adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel, and …
The Hitcher (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Ranking, purely on a level of sustained moodiness and visual authority, with the best of ‘80s American genre films, The …
