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…
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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…
Please Ignore the Truth; I Got a Deal to Close – Arbitrage *** 1/2
A person’s drive to protect perception and others attempt to uncover reality are portrayed in a convincing and entertaining manner in Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage. As the Writer and Directer of his first feature film Jarecki tells the story of a highly noted and equally flawed business icon working every possible angle to cross the finish Read More…