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…

Skyfall: Mommie Dearest

Daniel Craig. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing It was at a party thrown by Hugh Jackman in 2010 that Daniel Craig ran into Sam Mendes after downing a few cocktails. Mendes…

The Bourne Legacy

As the American intelligence community is being investigated after the events of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), the CIA try to eliminate everyone tied to one of their clandestine programs… but…

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is sprung from a prison in Russia by his IMF colleagues, but when a subsequent mission is botched and a bomb destroys the Kremlin, Hunt's team…

Inception: Dream Warriors

Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo: Warner Some of our greatest thrills take place when we sleep. Scenarios play out in our dreams that are genuinely unpredictable and emotional. Regardless of whether they…

Predators 

A group of killers, including a black ops soldier (Adrien Brody) who assumes leadership, are dropped into a jungle where they seem to be hunted by predatory aliens. Sounds like…