Tag: sean bean

Gaming the Patriot Jack Ryan, aged 20 years since The Hunt for Red October, now lives in the prototypical American home. It’s a lavish, expensive structure, painted white with …

Car Melee John Frankenhiemer’s Ronin is pure atmosphere porn. A dimly lit bridge at night, surrounded by wet reflective concrete giving off a glow. A safe house, littered, and …

A Smoldering Thriller from the 1980s Written and directed by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) in his directorial debut, Stormy Monday is a noirish thriller with major starpower. Melanie …

Pixelated Videogames are treated as nothing more than a pop culture anomaly in Pixels. Played by nerds, played by geeks – the archetypes are decades out of place. Between …

Matt Damon Looks at Earth with Envious Eyes Inspiring and playful, The Martian is the least cynical of Hollywood’s space epics. Trapped astronaut Mark Watney’s (Matt Damon) bright demeanor …

Black Death is less about the plague than about religious retribution, the disease serving as a rather pointless MacGuffin in the backdrop.

... a couple of splatter kills are about the only thing that sets the proper satirical tone of the Roger Corman original and 2008 remake.