‘Midnight Run’ with Robert De Niro on HBO Max and HBO Now
The midnight run of Martin Brest’s action comedy Midnight Run (1988) refers to what is supposed to be an easy job for skip tracer and bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro). He’s hired to capture...
View Article‘Le Cercle Rouge’ on Criterion Channel
Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed as in Le cercle rouge (France, 1970). Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1970 heist classic stars Alain Delon and Gian Maria Volonte as coolly...
View Article‘Nocturama’– A different kind of terrorism on Criterion Channel
Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama (France, 2017) is mesmerizing. Ostensibly a terrorist thriller about a group of French millennials who stage an attack on the symbols of global capitalism, it becomes a...
View Article‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’– a superhero conspiracy thriller on...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) is my pick for the best Marvel Universe superhero movie to date. Picking up where The Avengers left off, it’s a superhero adventure by way of a political...
View Article‘The Matrix’ trilogy on HBO Max
The Matrix (1999) has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it...
View ArticleZoe Saldana kills in ‘Colombiana’ on Netflix
Zoe Saldana was a rising star when she took the lead as a sexy assassin in Colombiana (2011), a revenge thriller from producer Luc Besson’s international action movie factory. But where his other...
View Article‘Ant-Man’– Marvel gets small on Disney+
Ant-Man (2015) hit theaters with a slightly different approach for a Marvel superhero movie. It’s more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly...
View ArticleLast Chance: “I’ll be back”– The original ‘The Terminator’ on Amazon Prime...
After three underwhelming sequels to James Cameron’s hard-wired hardware time travel thriller The Terminator (1984) in the past dozen years, it’s time to remind ourselves just how tight and clever and...
View ArticleLast chance: ‘Red’– Bruce Willis is deadly funny on Amazon Prime and Hulu
Red (2010) isn’t a name (or a color) in this comic-book movie about retired covert agents who are roused back to action to teach the new breed a thing or two about the spy game. It’s a designation that...
View ArticleUnderdog Oscar winner ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu
Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Danny Boyle’s underdog movie about a slum kid in India who defies all odds and follows his heart into the final rounds of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire,” was the most...
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