Posts Tagged ‘Universal Pictures’
Film Review – The Purge: Anarchy
I re-watched last year’s The Purge on HBO recently and was immediately reminded of what drove me so crazy about it the first time around. Outside of the fact that it ultimately boiled down to a run-of-the-mill home invasion flick, therefore mostly excusing its admittedly…
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Film Review – Lone Survivor
Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor (2013) is difficult to review. No doubt the intentions are in a good place. Recounting the events of “Operation Red Wings,” a failed Navy SEAL mission in which four soldiers were trapped deep behind enemy lines in 2005, we sense Berg…
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Film Review – The Best Man Holiday
Under the category “Sequels That Never Needed To Exist But Here It Is Anyway” comes The Best Man Holiday, the follow-up to The Best Man (1999). The first film didn’t change the world by any stretch of the imagination, but I did appreciate it for…
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Film Review – Kick-Ass 2
Jeff Wadlow’s Kick-Ass 2 will once again bring up the discussion of violence in movies. It’s strange how—at least to American censors—shootings, stabbings, decapitations, and other forms of extreme violence are more often than not accepted. But on the other side, the slightest expression of…
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Film Review – Fast Five
In 2001, the original The Fast and The Furious film started a storyline involving an undercover cop and an ex-con and the unlikely friendship they formed. It also left the storyline open until 2009’s Fast and Furious reunited undercover-cop-turned-FBI-agent Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) with the…
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