Posts Tagged ‘Dwayne Johnson’
Film Review – Skyscraper
Duct tape plays a prominent role throughout Skyscraper (2018). When Dwayne Johnson’s character suffers a brutal gash from shrapnel, he closes the wound off by wrapping it in tape. When he has to scale the side of a three thousand foot tall building, he wraps…
READ MOREFilm Review – Rampage
Rampage (2018) is the kind of movie phrases like “mindless entertainment” were invented to describe. It serves no other purpose than to provide audiences with escapism for two hours. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Some of the best movies ever made were created to…
READ MOREFilm Review – Baywatch
The Rock has once again put me in a hard place, man. While never a wrestling fan, even me, ever the simpleton, recognized Dwayne Johnson‘s charisma alongside the rest of the free world once he entered the movie arena. He arguably (or depending on who…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Fate of the Furious
By now we’ve seen cars do pretty much everything a car can and cannot do on screen. Progressively from street car racing to launching sideways out of a moving train, to falling with parachutes out of skies and landing on four wheels. We have even…
READ MOREFilm Review – Moana
In Disney’s Moana (2016), a precocious young daughter of a Polynesian chief takes it upon herself to travel out into the ocean to save her people. Legend has it that centuries earlier, a powerful demigod stole a magical stone known as the Heart of Te…
READ MOREFilm Review – Central Intelligence
Comedy trailers are often lambasted for giving away all of a movie’s best jokes in a two minute highlight reel, usually accompanied by a happening James Brown or George Thorogood song. Central Intelligence, a new action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (a no-brainer…
READ MOREFilm Review – Furious 7
The Fast & Furious series is one of those rare franchises that have actually improved the further it goes. Fourteen years have passed since the first, and only in the last few years has it really found its stride. A lot of that has to…
READ MOREDVD Rundown 8-27-2013 – Video Podcast #274
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for August 27th, 2013. In this episode they discuss The Great Gatsby, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Pain & Gain and The Walking Dead.
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