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A fun and exciting movie that delivers even though it is via a “gimick”. At first I thought it wouldn’t work, but the progressive re-telling of the story from different vantage points worked well. Each time the story is told, we are revealed a little more about what was really going on. My only …

White House Down is bombing at the box office, surprising both Hollywood and Channing Tatum fans.¹ Stiff opening competition from The Heat is part of the reason, but this heavily hyped movie’s commercial coup de grâce is almost certainly its coup…

Spectacular calamity followed by impressive vengeance makes Olympus Has Fallen an amply satisfying cinematic experience. So what if it’s jingoism. It’s extremely well executed jingoism, by jingo! Patriotic action-movie fans – like me – happen to like this sort of button-pushing entertainment…

Noted mostly as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s cinematic swan song, A Most Wanted Man is also a clear-eyed look at the long twilight struggle that we in the West have with the Islamists who are trying to kill us. Hoffman goes deep – real deep – as a 21st century German intel officer trying to keep Ha…

I missed 1.0 but 2.0 made for 1 helluva fun night at the movies.¹ We’re talking manly duets out the wazoo.

• Stallone and Statham
• Stallone and Hemsworth, Liam Hemsworth
• Stallone and Van Damme
• Stallone and Lundgren
• Stallone and Willis
• Stallone and Schwarzenegger (a name that exi…