The Top 10 Action Movies of the Decade (2010-2019)

The 2010’s were quite the time to be an action fan. Along with horror, it feels like the one genre that sort of did redefine what was visually possible, and perhaps as important, what we should demand often as fans. There was something for everyone, whether that was big, sweeping set-pieces, or more contained, intimate […]

Gringo

Do the right thing and play by the rules. This is the paraphrased mantra coming from his father that Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) has lived by. The Nigerian immigrant has set up shop in Chicago, married to Bonnie (Thandie Newton) and working for a pharmaceutical company called Promethium. It is run by his arrogant college […]

Free Fire

Take your shot. In 1978 Boston, an abandoned warehouse is the scene for a weapons transaction between Republican Army agents (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) and gun runners (Sharlto Copley, Babou Ceesay), brokered by neutral yet-in-the know Americans (Brie Larson, Armie Hammer). Tensions arise naturally, but the deal is still in place. Just as the deal […]

Hardcore Henry: Movie Man Jackson

Insert obligatory joke about Hardcore Henry sounding like a porno here. A man named Henry (you/the audience) wakes up one day from the dead in a Russian laboratory. He has no memory at all of how he got there, or how he has become a hybrid of man and robot. He’s been brought back to […]

Europa Report: Movie Man Jackson

“Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? And, are we alone?” The question may get old, but it will always be asked (albeit worded differently): Is there life on other planets? Perhaps on Jupiter, there may be. In the Europa Report, six astronauts are brought together to investigate one of Jupiter’s moons known as […]

Chappie: Movie Man Jackson

“How was I supposed to know that you would become you?” The mind is, or can be, the strongest muscle in one’s body. It is also the most impressionable muscle as well. In a near-futuristic Johannesburg, South Africa, crime has curtailed thanks to the deployment of robots on the police force. Created by Deon Wilson (Dev […]

Elysium: Movie Man Jackson

“We’re not gonna f*****g dying here.” Is 2154 so much different than 2015? Los Angeles (and what can be assumed the whole Earth) in the year 2154 is no man’s land. The City of Angels is dilapidated, grime-infested, crime-infested, and overpopulated beyond capacity. Its inhabitants are on one end of the spectrum, while the extremely […]

District 9: Movie Man Jackson

“He was an honest man, and he didn’t deserve any of what happened to him.” The aliens have landed. Well, hovered is more like it. 20 years ago in Johannesburg, South Africa, aliens arrive in a ship and do little more than hover over the city. However, fear of the unknown spurs the humans to […]