Articles tagged with action

Much of the buzz, press, and reviews surrounding The Dark Knight seem to border on hyperbole, as do the laudatory cliches I am resisting hurling your way right now. If you find this film to be over-hyped, over-saturated, over-played and over-praised, then friend, this website is not for you. Because I am about to launch into what might be one of the most enthusiastic reviews of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight on the entire internets.

Nolan and his co-writer,...

This review is rather late in coming, so I feel it's fair to discuss the critical reception of Get Smart. Most reviewers have dismissed this film, basing much of their arguments on its dissimilarity with the old Don Adams TV show. (By the way, for you kids my age who didn't stay up for "Get Smart" on Nick at Nite, you'll remember Don Adams as the voice of Inspector Gadget.) And true, Get Smart the film lands somewhere between True Lies and Spy...

Will Smith, whose career I worried was in jeopardy between Wild Wild West (1999) and i, Robot (2004), returns with another $100+ million blockbuster in Hancock, a mere seven months after  the hit I Am Legend. Both are very good choices for the man who might just be our last true action hero (as the careers of Vin Diesel and The Rock continue to idle and superhero movies increasingly cast "real" actors); horror-actioners and superhero flicks...

The will to survive, to prove oneself and to have access to great powers distiguishing one from all others in an already competitive and saturated world differs in degree amongst people, or say, animals. Kung Fu Panda is one such tale of a panda who's willingness to prove himself worthy of acclaim won him Shifu's belief.

Kung Fu Panda is an ordinary story of a panda who is the son of a noodle restaurant owner. His father has a lot of dreams for him in the noodle business, but...

This review is a little late in coming and I know you all just want to get out and see the Sex and the City movie now (or, depending on when this is published, Hancock), but I had a lot to say about the newest Indiana Jones film which took a while to say, and then even longer to go through and edit out.

There are some movies we are raised on, which through repeat viewing from an early age we associate so closely with ourselves that they come to be part of...

I’m shivering as I set out to write this review; and I cannot decide whether its because Karachi is hitting record lowest temperatures, or is this chill going down my spine the same one that I have been experiencing since last July while watching the online trailer of “Cloverfield” with the bone-chilling scream? I now truly know exactly how I would feel coming face to face with a monster that could wipe away my whole neighborhood with one sweep of its hand!

It was...

Writing a review for this epic new Superman movie is proving a daunting task. It’s hard to love a movie as much as I loved it and explain why in reasonable terms. On one level, my enjoyment was just pure awe. The movie works on other levels, however, but to explain all of them would be to give away much of the film’s important developments. Let’s just start things off with a simple “Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns is, from an objective standpoint, the best superhero movie ever...

When the first X-Men film came out six years ago, I was thirteen. That means that I was six, thirteen years ago, when the Saturday-morning cartoon show on Fox was wildly popular. I was always a Spider-Man kid, but most of my friends watched X-Men, and I would often join them. When pressed to choose a favorite character, I chose Cyclops (what can I say, I was a kid who liked to follow the rules). When director Bryan Singer took away the yellow-and-blue costumes and made Cyclops (played by...

It’s been long enough since this movie came out that those of you who were going to see this movie have probably already seen it, and have probably read enough conflicting and politically charged reviews of the film to have formed your own opinion on it. You know the basic plot: a terrorist known only as “V” challenges a fascist government in mid 2000’s Britain. The question over whether V’s...

Relentlessly Good Movie with a Great Cast
It has been almost a decade since Harrison Ford’s incredible Air Force One. Any devoted fan could lose faith after any two of his last few movies; Hollywood Homicide, Random Hearts, [gasp]