The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Review
Magicians are fun. As Alan Arkin’s Rance Holloway tells us, audiences love to have a sense of awe and see the impossible. There’s a reason magician films have worked in the past (most recently with The Prestige and The Illusionist). We want to be fooled. We want to be amazed. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is [...]
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review
From watermelon-chopping tech demo, through development purgatory, to Platinum – Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been through a lot. This could be a point of concern for many, a point laid to rest within the first 10 minutes when your seat can no longer contain you from the excitement of the onscreen action. I was giddily [...]
Olympus Has Fallen Review
When the President of the United States is taken hostage by a terrorist mastermind, can a disgraced secret service agent save him? From the director of Training Day comes Olympus Has Fallen from FilmDistrict starring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart. Is this film the action film comeback of Gerard Butler or is it basically [...]
