Posts Tagged ‘Speed’
Film Review – Hard Hit
Writer/director Changju Kim’s Hard Hit (2021) is a solid, throwback thriller. A remake of the Spanish film, Retribution (2015), this South Korean offering has the DNA of tense, location-specific action films of the past. Characters trapped in a vehicle wired with a bomb will call to mind the premise of Speed (1994).…
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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…
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Film Review – Roar
Lions and tigers and… cheetahs and cougars and panthers and an elephant, oh my. Giant cats of the world, while adorable, are typically regarded as wild, dangerous animals and are treated as such. Unless you’re Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, daughter Melanie Griffith, or one of…
READ MORETop 5 – Action Films
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5’s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 action films.
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Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5’s segment. In honor of The Town, Brandi and Allen share their top 5 film comebacks.
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