Reading about or listening to people discribing their attempt to summit Castle Peak reveals some common themes; “difficult”, “demanding”, “confusing”, “frustrating”, “painful”, “never ending” and “silly of me to attempt.” I, along with my son Kyle, decided to establish if any or all of these statements about the 15.5 mile (6,628 of vertical) trip to Read More…
Year: 2012
The Family That’s Kidnapped Together… Taken 2 ***1/2
If the Mills family of Los Angeles asks you to vacation together, politely decline. Taken 2 is the enjoyable sequel to the popular original of 2007 created by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Although highly successful and versatile on their own Besson (The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional) and Kamen (Taps, Read More…
This Is Not Your Father’s Dragnet – End of Watch *** 1/2
It feels as if every single approach to making a police movie has been made by Hollywood – and then comes David Ayer’s End Of Watch. End of Watch stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Zodiac, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko) and Michel Pena (Everything Must Go, World Trade Center, Crash) as two long-time partners working for the Los Read More…