Tag: Assassin
Argylle’s Twists and Turns Elevate It From Descending Into Total Cliche
Director Matthew Vaughn has returned with his latest action packed film. Argylle introduces us to author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) who writes the best-selling spy novel series of the same name about a secret agent who’s on a mission…
Read More »John Wick Chapter 4 Continues the Action Franchise Ascent Into Greatness, Legend
The John Wick series infamously began as a small scale movie that was the verge of being put straight to DVD/on-demand into perhaps the best action film franchise of its time. As movie franchises grow in success and number, it…
Read More »Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Loses The First’s Balance and Charm
The Hitman’s Bodyguard was a pleasant surprise during the summer of 2017, an action comedy buddy flick released smack dab in the middle of the height of the superhero blockbuster era and exceeded expectations due to the undeniable…
Read More »Those Who Wish Me Dead is Scaled Back Taylor Sheridan but Still Thrills
Taylor Sheridan has fast established himself as a transcendent screenwriter and creator over the past few years with his foray into examining the culture and issues surrounding the modern American west. His latest film continues on this front,…
Read More »The Old Guard Balances Action, Philosophy, and Morality in One Entertaining Package
We all go about our daily lives with the foreboding knowledge that death comes for us all. When I consider what awaits me at the end of my time here on Earth, all the possibilities evoke fear. Those…
Read More »In Incitement, a View of How Young Men Become Radicalized
As social upheaval continues to spread worldwide and populist movements lurch further rightward, teetering toward violence, one of the questions many sociopolitical analysts are pondering is what motivates people, young men in particular, to become radicalized? The advent…
Read More »Our Film Favorites Return to Thrill Us, and Make Us Think, One Last Time in The Irishman
Perhaps I’m not the best critic to draft this particular review. The Irishman is the latest film from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese returning to the genre that many casual filmgoers incorrectly associate him with, mafia gangster movies. In…
Read More »John Wick 3: Parabellum is Chock Full of the Action We’ve Come to Love with Added Substance
John Wick 3: Parabellum begins immediately after the ending of John Wick 2 which saw the film franchise’s namesake guns down Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), a member of the mysterious High Table, the shadowy council that oversees the…
Read More »Shadow is the Kind of Inventive, Stylish, but Substantive Film America is Making Less Of
Shadow is a story based on the Three Kingdoms Chinese fable involving two Chinese kingdoms, the Yan and the Pei. The two were formerly at war but are now in the throes of peace following an agreed upon…
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The Killer is as Cool and Stylish as its Protagonist
Director David Fincher makes his return to the movies with a new action thriller tale of an assassin laser focused on revenge. The Killer stars Michael Fassbender as a nameless assassin, hereby referred to as just The Killer,…
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