“For better or for worse… For richer or for poorer… ’Til death do us part.” This is what spouses promise each other in the sacrament of matrimony. Unfortunately, many marriages fall apart at the height of financial difficulties. According to the Book Cents and Sensibility by Bethany and Scott Palmer, there are several reasons why … Continue reading
Haywire combines the physical talents of MMA fighter Gina Carano with the directorial talents of Steven Soderbergh. It’s a strange combination that doesn’t always mix well, but the result is pretty interesting nonetheless. The film might take one or two twists too many to tell a story that really ought to have just been Carano … Continue reading
It’s the same Easter Holiday in our place. After a week of prayers and silent recollection of our God’s love for us, here comes the usual same-thing. And our family just went out to the mall to see this latest movie of Greek gods and goddess. GWarner Bros. Pictures’ new 3D epic adventure Wrath of … Continue reading
It has taken nearly a hundred years to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Bartoom stories to the big screen. John Carter had no easy task ahead of it, having to depict Burroughs’ wild detailed world of stories, and the humongous budget reflects the challenge of simply bringing that vision to life. The movie is a little … Continue reading
The first Ghost Rider movie wasn’t very warmly received. Under the helm of Mark Steven Johnson, the film was a tepid, second tier blockbuster, offering up plenty of high budget CGI effects but little character. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance goes the other way. In the final accounting, it doesn’t really make a whole lot … Continue reading
The Grey is a little different from the rest of director Joe Carnahan’s filmography. It is a little slower, a little more contemplative, and a lot less insistent on the bringing the action to fore. It’s an admirable change of pace for the director, but it does quite work out well. Moreso that its lead … Continue reading
Safe House sets out to be action packed. And it is. If you take your average modern action movie and double up on car chases, gunfights and grappling battles, it would start to approach what Safe House is like. It’s exciting and can be said to be too much of a good thing, strong performances … Continue reading
Director David Fincher‘s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo kicks off the screen adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster Millennium Trilogy, the epic series of thrillers that have sold 65,000,000 copies in 46 countries. First published in 2005, shortly after Larsson’s own death, the first novel in the series, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo introduced … Continue reading
There’s a new kind of high in the movie Chronicle among three best friends Andrew, Matt and Steve set in a very familiar American landscape – high school students in a campus where each fraction of a teen either make themselves seen or invisible. Directed by first time feature film director Josh Trank, James Dehaan, … Continue reading
For the fourth installment of their mega-hit Underworld franchise, Underworld Awakening, the filmmakers have taken the extraordinary risk of reinventing and reinvigorating an already hugely successful, internationally acclaimed property. They have transported their Vampire and Lycan characters into a contemporary, human-dominated world in which they are hunted to near extinction, adding the excitement of cutting … Continue reading
