I fully stand by my review of season one of “Banshee” and season two stays right on course with all the violence and sex that Cinemax can throw at you. It is apparent some lessons were learned from that initial…
Back in the days when Gary Cooper was patrolling Hadleyville in “High Noon”, there were certain Western genre structures that were reliably adhered to. The good sheriff, donning a white hat, needed to stop evil from coming into town and…
“The Suspect” stars Yoo Gong as Ji Dong-cheol an quiet yet deadly agent from North Korea who has defected to South Korea. When we meet Ji he is reeling from the murder of his wife and daughter and looking for answers.…
Well, South Korea and Thailand have been able to pump out some pretty entertaining action films over the last handful of years. They have proven to match and even surpass Hollywood entertainment levels with action and various kinds of martial…
Throwback films come around every once in a while with relative degrees of success. These are films that pay homage to a certain decade of filmmaking. They are not obvious movies that pull every historical bit of kitsch and pop…
Veteran Hong Kong director Clarence Fok Yiu-leung (who was born in Canada) has a resume full of actioners and thrillers under his belt. Rumor has it that Mario Kassar originally wanted him to direct “Basic Instinct 2.” His films boast…
Mill Creek continues on with their affordably priced genre sets, this time bringing “Kickin’ it Shaolin Style”, a 12 movie collection of Shaolin themed fighting films. Stretching from the early 70’s to early 80’s they are the stereotypical examples of the…
Epidemic movies have been a reoccurring topic since the seventies. “The Andromeda Strain” brought a clinical, docudrama approach; “Outbreak” introduced 90’s film-going crowds to possible worldwide obliteration by germs and Soderbergh’s “Contagion” gave us a cold, unflinching approach showing the…
As it has been stated before, HBO has had an exceptionally strong run of shows since “The Sopranos.” One strength all the series have had since then is the ability to not overstay their welcome. “Treme” follows that trend by…
Based on George R.R. Martin‘s third book of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, ‘A Storm of Swords’, the third season of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” is beginning to hit its stride much like most series when they…