"Skyscraper" is an action-adventure film about a former FBI agent and security specialist who must rescue his family from a Hong Kong skyscraper when terrorists set fire to the structure. Director-screenwriter Rawson Marshall Thurber ("We're the Millers" 2013) filled the movie with loads of action sequences (especially [..]

"Road Trip" is a road sex comedy movie from director Todd Phillips in his big screen debut. Phillips also wrote the screenplay, with Scot Armstrong, which tells the story of high school sweethearts who attend different colleges, in New York and Texas, and have trouble maintaining their [..]

The Best Picture of 2023 is....."Oppenheimer." Producer-director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan ("Tenet" 2020) has put together quite a cinematic extravaganza about the life and times of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his running the Manhattan Project in the early 1940's to a subsequent fall from grace in the 1950's. [..]

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actor Dwayne Johnson team up for a third time in "Red Notice." The story has Johnson playing an FBI agent tracking a missing artifact from the first century that was a gift from Roman general Mark Antony to Egyptian ruler Cleopatra. [..]

"Triple Frontier" is an action-adventure picture from director J. C. Chandor ("All is Lost" 2013) that tells the story of five U. S. Army Delta Force friends who reunite to plan a major heist of a South America crime kingpin. Despite an uneven storyline in the first [..]

"End of Watch" is a finely crafted crime drama about two LAPD officers who patrol the dangerous streets of the South Central Los Angeles area. Producer-director-screenwriter David Ayer ("Harsh Times" 2005) evidently did his research, as the film has an authentic feel to it. [..]

"The Bourne Legacy" is an exciting espionage thriller, the fourth installment in the Jason Bourne series (2002, 2004, 2007) that does not feature Matt Damon as Bourne, who did not want to return due to a change in directors. This director, Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton" 2007), has [..]

"Lawless" is a crime drama story about three brothers running a moonshine business in 1931 rural Virginia and the scrapes they get into with local law enforcement, federal authorities, and other criminal elements. Director John Hillcoat ("The Road" 2009) and screenwriter Nick Cave let [..]

"The Expendables 2" is certainly an improvement over the original "Expendables" of 2010. A neutral observer can get the impression that director Simon West ("Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" 2001) uses this film as a way to employ washed up action stars. Actually, he did employ good [..]

"Looper" is a science fiction action movie from director-screenwriter Rian Johnson ("The Brothers Bloom" 2008) that tells the story of a hitman from the future going into the past only to be in peril of being killed by his younger self. This well-constructed time travel film is [..]