"Sicario", Violently Good!
Director Dennis Villenueve brings us Sicario, an edge of your seat crime thriller starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio del Toro. Blunt plays FBI SWAT agent Kate Macer who is hired on in a joint task force mission to take down a leading drug lord. On top of that, the task force also brings on a particular expert named Alejandro (del Toro). Tensions rises at the border between the United States and Mexico, as well as with Kate and Alejandro, as the FBI agent starts to questions the motives of her mission as well Alejandro. Sicario is f…
"Black Mass" of Heaviness
There are movies that exist that leave you very satisfied that you have seen it, but makes you think about deep and complex questions, like "Can humanity really be this dark and cruel?" Black Mass is the movie I will be talking about. The movie stars Johnny Depp as the infamous Boston Irish gangster James "Jimmy" "Whitey" Bulger and his time as a crime lord during the 1970s and 80s, as well as being an informant to the FBI to help take down the Italian mafia. Performances shines, tension builds, and darkness cree…
"American Hustle" A New American Classic!
David O. Russell seems to pay a well crafted homage to the new wave Hollywood crime films of the early and mid 1970s with American Hustle. The story is about two con artists, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser, posing as an alias Lady Edith Greensly (Amy Adams) who are forced by an FBI agent named Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) to set up a sting operation on Camden, New Jersey mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner). Meanwhile, Rosenfeld's wild and unpredictable wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) seems to cause trouble whenev…
"Spring Breakers" or What Happens When You Mix A Clockwork Orange, Scarface, and MTV
When I heard about Spring Breakers, a film about a group of college girls who attend a Spring Break bash in Florida, which stars former Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, I thought it was going to be a light-hearted teen comedy about these girls getting into shenanigans and finding romance during Spring Break, so of course I had no interest in it. Then when I saw the first trailer for Spring Breakers , it was not that all. It seemed like it was going to be a crime-drama story about these girls partying way too hard, end up …
RANDOM REVIEW OF THE DAY: Batman Returns (1992)
T hat's right, Batman returns in well, Batman Returns! After the magnificent and epic 1989 film, Michael Keaton returns as the Caped Crusader continuing to fight crime in Gotham City. This time he has a battle with a new villain named The Penguin (Danny DeVito) who is in league with a tyrannical CEO executive named Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) and the complex and seductive Catwoman (Michelle Pfieffer). So is this Batman film just as great or maybe even better than it's predecessor? Not really. I do think there are still some enterta…
CHRISTMAS REVIEW OF THE DAY: Die Hard (1988)
Is there such thing as a Christmas film that does take place during the Christmas season but it's content have nothing to do with Christmas, yet it is a movie that audiences are willing to watch around this time of year? Of course there is, and that movie is the 1988 action blockbuster Die Hard. The film stars Bruce Willis as a New York cop named John McClane who visits Los Angeles to meet up with his estranged wife for a Christmas party at the high rise she works at. But when a group of German terrorists crash the party and hold the civil…
