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…
Author: JeffreyLubeck
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…
To the Top of Thomspon Peak
On an extraordinary fall day, I had the fortune to attempt to summit Thompson Peak (10,751) – the highest in the Sawtooth range of Idaho. As I always say, better to be lucky than good. An on this day I was one lucky son-of-a-gun. Accompanying me would be my son Kyle. A goal for the Read More…