Shoot ‘Em Up is one of those movies that sounds like pure DTV material: the film, from the writer of Double Dragon who also happens to be the director of Monster Man, is about "a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally to protect a newborn baby from a determined criminal who hunts … Continue reading
If Devin wasn’t moving to L.A. in the next couple of weeks, he might have been able to cover this year’s 45th annual New York Film Festival, in which case he would have been among the first to see Wes Anderson’s new The Darjeeling Limited, which opens the festival on September 28. As is so … Continue reading
This fourth Die Hard installment opens with the Fox logo going dark. We’re meant to take the power outage simply as an indication of the plot shortly to unfold. In fact, we’re seeing the death of a series, at least as far as this episode is concerned. Live Free Or Die Hard is a kindred … Continue reading
In celebration (or dread, realistically) of the impending release of Live Free or Die Hard, the time is ripe to revisit the other three films in the series. In the spirit of great thieves, I’ve blatantly stolen Devin’s 10 Days of 13 format to celebrate John McClane’s previous excursions into octane. So for the next … Continue reading
In celebration (or dread, realistically) of the impending release of Live Free or Die Hard, the time is ripe to revisit the other three films in the series. In the spirit of great thieves, I’ve blatantly stolen Devin’s 10 Days of 13 format to celebrate John McClane’s previous excursions into octane. So for the next … Continue reading
In celebration (or dread, realistically) of the impending release of Live Free or Die Hard, the time is ripe to revisit the other three films in the series. In the spirit of great thieves, I’ve blatantly stolen Devin’s 10 Days of 13 format to celebrate John McClane’s previous excursions into octane. So for the next … Continue reading
In Live Free Or Die Hard, Bruce Willis once again plays tough cop John McClane. But where McClane’s dominant characteristic was once a sort of outsider attitude, this film sees him pushed into slightly different territory. As the analog guy in a digital world, McClane is a lot closer to the actor than you’d expect. … Continue reading
Never underestimate the fickle oddity of Hollywood. Two years ago, Bruce Willis was deeply involved in adapting Carsten Stroud’s novel Black Water Transit. A cheery tale of prison, smack, gun running and shipping, it might not have been a new Striking Distance, but it’s easy to see how Bruce might have made something out of … Continue reading
As Devin mentioned yesterday in Eli Roth Is The One Getting Tortured Now, this weekend saw widespread piracy of Michael Moore’s Sicko. Not only did the film hit Bit Torrent trackers (that happened last week, actually) — one or more people broke the film up into chunks and placed it on YouTube, and a copy … Continue reading