Assassins seem to exist only in the movies or on TV shows. Think about it: have you ever encountered one in real life? Or heard about them on the news? They seem to exist in the minds of Hollywood screenwriters, who love using them as easy-to-watch pro…
Cinema has a long history of popular movies set aboard choo-choos. Given this, it’s no surprise that Bullet Train –about assassins and thieves pursuing a McGuffin on a train headed from Tokyo to Kyoto — did brisk business during its first weekend in th…
When you think of action movies, and action more generally, what you might imagine is young men (along with an increasing amount of kickass women) jumping around and swinging from burning buildings to collapsing bridges as they chase a bad guy and defy…
Filmmakers have been ripping off the motormouthed, jukebox-boogie style of Quentin Tarantino for so long now that the ripoffs have spawned their own ripoffs, which in turn have spawned their own ripoffs, and so on into oblivion. The latest branch of th…