Red, White, and Blue October Sam Neill and Sean Connery share a quiet, contemplative conversation midway through The Hunt for Red October. Neill goes wide-eyed, dreaming of Montana. Connery …
Shh… Without the typical genre conventions, A Quiet Place rewrites the rules of cinema horror. No drunken teens, no classless characters; rather, A Quiet Place focuses on the family …
If Liam Neeson Boards, Get Out The latest in the “Liam Neeson punches dudes” genre works to the extent these movies do. It’s a competent retread of Neeson’s Non-Stop, …
Train-ed Killers If there’s justification for another screen adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, it’s this update’s cinematography. With the eye of cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and direction of …
Fearful Sleepover 10 Cloverfield Lane traps a young women in a 1950s time capsule. Or rather, a bunker, populated by an older man (John Goodman) who obsesses over survival. …
Al-LIE-d Despite trailers which depict Brad Pitt spraying machine guns at Nazis (recalling a bit of his run in Inglorious Basterds) Allied reaches for its few minutes of action. …
Shark on Fire Up until the closing moments, The Shallows makes for a firm, lonely thriller. Blake Lively’s terrified looks add legitimacy to the concept of someone stranded just …