War for the Planet of the Apes

A few years after the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the war between apes and humans is growing bloodier and Caesar finds a personal enemy…

Dirty Harry: Justice with a Magnum

Clint Eastwood. Photo: Warner After the premiere of what has become Clint Eastwood’s most famous film, there was a backlash. Several critics attacked the film for its, in the words…

Point Break 

Rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover to infiltrate a group of surfers who might have ties to a series of bank robberies executed by a gang who…

Jason Bourne 

When the CIA realizes that a former technician of theirs, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), intends to expose a top-secret file and has made contact with Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), the…

Spectre

As James Bond (Daniel Craig) chases a particularly powerful villain (and shadows from his past), the British intelligence community is about to change in a way that deeply worries M…

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

As the IMF is about to be shut down by the government, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes on the lam from the CIA and tries to prove the existence of…

Heat: Cops and Robbers

Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer. Photo: Warner I remember watching this movie in a theater back in 1995. After about two hours, a woman asked someone sitting close to…

The Purge

On a government-sanctioned day in the near future, every law is suspended; a family braces itself for the coming 12-hour massacre… A marriage between sentiments and ideas from movies like…

Where Eagles Dare: The Nazi Nest

Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Photo: MGM Whoever wrote director Brian G. Hutton's Wikipedia entry listed Kelly's Heroes (1970) as his most notable work, which seems odd. That movie has…

Force 10 From Navarone 

After the mission that destroyed the guns of Navarone, Keith Mallory and John Miller (Robert Shaw, Edward Fox) are asked to find a spy who may have infiltrated the Yugoslav…