Action Juice

A year ago, I complained that the first season of Bosch: Legacy failed to take any risks, resulting in a program that felt more like an eighth season of Bosch... Read More

I was twelve years old when I first watched David Fincher’s Panic Room back in 2002, and somehow, I haven’t re-watched it since. To this day, I remember what my... Read More

Looking at its box office, it seems I wasn’t the only one who was skeptical that a two-plus-hour Gran Turismo movie was worth their time. I’m not saying it did... Read More

Reptile is one of those films that receives mixed-to-bad reviews, and yet, I have a hard time understanding why. For one, critics’ tendency to disproportionately trash Netflix movies seems to... Read More

The last decade of action flicks has been dominated by superhero franchises and gun-fu blockbusters like John Wick. Yet, The Equalizer trilogy has somehow managed to secure a small but... Read More

Why do I keep watching Liam Neeson movies? Maybe it’s the tradition of watching nearly every one for fifteen years, or maybe it’s simply cinematic masochism. Whatever the reason, it’s... Read More

If you browse through my other reviews, then you’ll probably notice that I tend to stick to a handful of genres: action, horror, mystery, etc. That being said, if the... Read More

Frankly, I never thought we’d see another season of Warrior. When HBO mothballed Cinemax’s original programming, I assumed that would doom this show for sure. Of course, there was also... Read More

In my mind, it’s irrefutable that baseball makes for the best sports movies. Sure, other sports have their advantages, but they generally lack those sublime moments that feel almost divine... Read More

Like most Americans, I had never heard of Welsh serial killer John Cooper, which only changed after I watched the Luke Evans-led miniseries, The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021). So, it should... Read More

I’ve become a sucker for Apple TV+’s model: slap a movie star onto an expensive looking series and hope for fireworks. This approach hasn’t always paid off, as we’ve seen... Read More

For no particular reason, I’ve been on a John-Travolta-cop film kick of late. Only a few days ago, I watched The General’s Daughter (1999) for the first time, which was... Read More

2023 has been a good year for sequels of long-running action film series, with Fast X, Indiana Jones 5, and now, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Oddly enough,... Read More

Sometimes, I really hate how my brain thinks. For instance, when I read that season four of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan was releasing only six months after its third installment,... Read More

As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer fast approaches, I wanted to rewatch another of his films, particularly one of a similar scale and ambition. There’s really only one movie that fits that... Read More