Went to see the new Clint Eastwood directed movie Richard Jewell. Based on the tragic, stupid, and unfair story about how Jewell found the Olympic Park bomb in the 90s and then got dragged through the mud by the FBI … Continue reading
Also saw the movie 7 Days in Entebbe which is about a terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight in 1976. Based on a true story, it follows a German/Palestinian hijacked plane that is rerouted to Entebba, Uganda. The passengers … Continue reading
Checked out the new Clint Eastwood film The 15:17 to Paris, the true story of a handful of people who took down a terrorist aboard a passenger train. The main angle on the film is that they hired the real … Continue reading
Went to see the great big weird lie that is The Foreigner, the alleged new Jackie Chan movie. Because, surprise, it’s really a Pierce Brosnan political thriller with a random Jackie Chan running around occasionally in his own, nearly separate … Continue reading
Also saw Patriots Day, the new – and third in a row – film by director Peter Berg and actor Mark Whalberg. This follows their collaboration on Lone Survive and Deepwater Horizon and is also a real-life docudrama, this one … Continue reading
So someone went and made a Die Hard film but didn’t cast Bruce Willis and it was pretty great… Olympus Has Fallen is basically a new Die Hard film that puts to shame the actual Die Hard movie that came … Continue reading
The best thing about the new Die Hard (A Good Day to Die Hard) is that it has a lot of great stunt work that looks practical. They did some fantastic work to make the stunts pretty amazing… but the … Continue reading
So finally got to see Zero Dark Thirty (the hunt for Bin Ladin movie) – and was a little disappointed. The first 30 minutes is the All Singing, All Torturing movie, the next 1 hr and a half is an … Continue reading