Red Heat – 1988
It seems like you can pair up anybody in film now and chances are it’s going to work. It worked for Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, Tom Hanks and, that dog! But Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi? Now there’s a hell of a buddy cop combination, Schwarzenegger was coming off [...]
Predators – 2010
Fans of the original Predator will no doubt have been excited to see the trailers for Predators, a script pulled from a filing cabinet in 1994 and given a 2010 make over by Robert Rodriguez, who produces, with Nimród Antal directing. It was always going to be hard to top Schwarzenegger’s 1987 hit; John McTiernan [...]
Book of Eli – 2009
A solid effort from the Hughes Brothers here as they take on a post apocalyptic style western, Denzel Washington plays Eli a lone traveler who is following a path with a destination only he knows about. In his possession a book, so valuable to the resurrection of the human race that he’ll stop at nothing [...]
G.I Joe Rise of the Cobra – 2009
I’m going to look at G.I. Joe Rise of the Cobra from two perspectives, the first is the entertainment value. There is no question that this film, just shy of a two hour run time, delivers on entertainment. It’s almost like Transformers minus the robots, whether that is a good thing or not I don’t [...]
Gamer – 2009
Gamer is an out there type of film, you wonder if you should keep watching, but you do. After the success of Crank and the even more sureal Crank 2, writer directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine turned their attention to another action packed off the planet Sci-Fi film. Gamer is set way in the [...]
