Howard Hawks’ Sergeant York is exactly the kind of movie that used to get made and doesn’t anymore. Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning performance makes this one worth every minute. Continue reading Sergeant York Review (1941) (Throwback Thursday #10)
Tubi is free, loaded with hidden gems, and beats paying Netflix prices every month. This week: a sci-fi comedy legend, a creature feature crossover that delivered more than expected, and a Greek mythology action film that deserves a second look. All free on Tubi right now. Continue reading Tubi Tuesday #4: Spaceballs, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Wrath of the Titans
Ten movies worth watching this Fourth of July ranked from great to essential. Not all war films this time, just pure American spirit from Sergeant York all the way up to The Patriot. Continue reading Fire Up the Grill and Queue These Up: The 10 Best Movies to Watch on the Fourth of July
Warrior Queen arrives in the Dungeon with stock footage, a wasted Sybil Danning, and Donald Pleasence committing fully to his paycheck. The Never-Ending Countdown gets its first rankings movement. Continue reading Warrior Queen Review (1987) (Throwback Thursday #9) (Sword, Sorcery & Sin: The Never-Ending Countdown — Entry #2)
This week’s Tubi picks: a moody atmospheric thriller that almost sticks the landing, a sleazy sword and sorcery classic that just launched a brand new countdown series here, and one of the best pure action films of the 1990s. All free, all worth your Tuesday night. Continue reading Tubi Tuesday #3: In A Dark Place, Deathstalker, and Speed
The never-ending countdown to the cheesiest, sleaziest sword and sorcery ever committed to film. Theia issues the Decree. Titan and Thalia bump the scores. The Dungeon is open. Continue reading Sword, Sorcery & Sin: The Never-Ending Countdown
The Dungeon opens with Deathstalker, the 1983 Roger Corman sword and sorcery film that defines the genre at its most unfiltered. Theia condemns it. Thalia has feelings about Lana Clarkson. The Never-Ending Countdown begins. Continue reading Deathstalker Review (1983) (Throwback Thursday #8) (Sword, Sorcery & Sin: The Never-Ending Countdown — Entry #1)
Tubi is free, loaded with hidden gems, and beats paying Netflix prices every month. Here are three films worth your time on Tubi this week. Continue reading Tubi Tuesday #2: Suburban Commando, Sweet Land, and Underworld
Midway got written off by critics in 2019 and that was mostly unfair. Roland Emmerich’s Pacific War epic is flawed but worth your time, especially around this Memorial Day weekend and the lead up to it. Continue reading Midway Review (2019)
Deadhaus Sonata Co-Op Gameplay Revealed Ahead of Early Access Launch Apocalypse Studios dropped new co-op gameplay footage today for Deadhaus Sonata, their upcoming dark-fantasy action RPG where you play as the undead fighting the living. The game is heading into Early Access on Steam, and if the pedigree behind it means anything, this one is worth paying attention to. Denis Dyack is directing. If that … Continue reading Deadhaus Sonata Co-Op Gameplay Revealed Ahead of Early Access Launch
Deep Impact came out the same summer as Armageddon and has been unfairly compared to it ever since. It is the better film. Robert Duvall is outstanding, Tea Leoni earns her emotional payoff, and it treats the audience like adults. Continue reading Deep Impact Review (1998)
Fatshark’s free Beyond the Hive update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide launches March 17, introducing Expeditions mode, which takes players outside Tertium and into the ruins of Atoma Prime for the first time. Continue reading Warhammer 40K: Darktide Gets New Expeditions Mode on March 17th
Sabotage wants to be Training Day and a classic Arnold shoot em’ up at the same time. It fails at both. One of the most boring Schwarzenegger films ever made, and that is really saying something. Continue reading Sabotage (2014) Review
Mel Gibson proves he still has it in this lean, competent survival actioner. As reclusive woodsman Bowdrie protecting his daughter and a wounded woman from ruthless criminals in Oklahoma’s wilderness, Gibson delivers a commanding, grounded performance that elevates a predictable but tense plot. Read our Hunting Season review. Continue reading Hunting Season Review – Mel Gibson Still Has It
The first Taken movie pretty much created a genre of its own. It was a smart fast-paced thriller, and a great watch. The sequel was stylistically appealing, but from a story standpoint was just a confusing mess that I absolutely hated. This movie has almost no style, and director Olivier Megaton (real name) must have broken some kind of record for yelling cut in this … Continue reading Taken 3 (2015) Review
The premise here is interesting, the talent is extraordinary, the action and atmosphere is fine, but the end result is one of the most befuddling messes I can long remember. The premise is this; 20 years after the Bosnian war, a retired US soldier now living out in the Appalachian countryside finds a strange hitch-hiker with a secret past. Turns out said hitch-hiker was … Continue reading Killing Season (2013) Review
Nick Wild is a Las Vegas bodyguard with a gambling addiction, and an action movie hero addiction as well. Dreaming of escaping this seedy world so he can sail a yacht around Corsica, he earns money through cutesy side jobs like helping losers get laid by letting them beat him up in front of their girlfriends, while serving as the “Mike” Jason Alexander’s “Better Call … Continue reading Wild Card (2015) Review
Liam Neeson, as I have stated before, is my jam. If Robert Mitchum or Charles Bronson were still around I would have a harder choice, but since they’re not, Liam is the undisputed king of my favorite hard asses. Ed Harris is also up there, and this movie brings the two of them together as an aging gangster and hitman, both of with grown up … Continue reading Run All Night Review
I saw this movie in 3D with my wife, who liked it far less than I did, feeling the movie was long on chase scenes and short on story. I say that up front for a little context, but personally I loved that the entire movie is just one long adrenaline rush. The story was started on the run and kept running throughout. Theron’s character … Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road Review
The Purge (2013) starring Ethan Hawke was one of my big disappointments. I thought the premise (all crime being legal for one night) was bloody brilliant, and had mucho potential for social commentary, plus a ton of groovy action in the vein of Escape from New York. Instead, the whole story took place in the house of one rich family on a rich neighborhood being … Continue reading The Purge: Anarchy Review
