Action Juice

As much as I appreciated The Witch and The Lighthouse, those films didn’t quite convince me that writer/director Robert Eggers is the real deal. Don’t get me wrong, they’re undeniably... Read More

I had a movie night recently with a buddy of mine who’s always keen to watch a foreign film, so I recommended we watch the Danish action comedy Riders of... Read More

With January’s Munich – The Edge of War being a cut above Netflix’s average fare, it seemed the streamer may have finally found a film genre that it excels at... Read More

Liam Neeson’s most recent action thrillers have been, for lack of a better word, dogshit. Okay, The Ice Road was passable, but Blacklight was an unmitigated train wreck that ranks... Read More

Writer/director Sean Ellis won me over back in 2016 with his underrated WW2 thriller, Anthropoid. That film was a character-driven gem that featured excellent acting, solid storytelling, and a killer... Read More

Few people in the last century have led a life worth retelling more than Harry Haft (born Hertzka Haft in 1925), a Polish-Jewish boxer who somehow managed to survive Auschwitz... Read More

While I admired Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy a great deal, there was something impenetrable about them. They simply lacked the intricate world-building and emotional depth that a Batman chronicle... Read More

After the hot freakin’ mess that was 6 Underground, I was in no rush to watch another Michael Bay movie. It’s been over two years since that garbage and I’m... Read More

Uncharted is one of those movies that I figured would never be made, as if it was more of a dream than a possibility. After all, rumblings surrounding a potential... Read More

It’s rather rare these days to see a major Hollywood studio release a one-location, character-driven crime drama, let alone one that uses a lineup of character actors rather than A-listers.... Read More

If there’s one film genre that the Brits are consistently good at producing, it’s crime, especially with a revenge angle. This heritage seems to go back to the time of... Read More

Every once in a while, I try to go out of my way to find a movie or TV show starring a well-established character actor in a lead role. In... Read More

Despite the fact that it shares its title with a Wesley Snipes direct-to-DVD offering from 2007, I remained cautiously optimistic about The Contractor. It seemed to have a lot going... Read More

Every few years, Hollywood remembers that animals can make for compelling villains in horror thrillers. The industry usually rotates through sharks, alligators/crocodiles, and lions, and since Crawl (2019) did gators,... Read More