INTRO: Director Matthew Vaughn is known for making gangster movies and comic book adaptations. Producing Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and making his directorial debut with Layer Cake paved the way for bigger projects: Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, the Kingsman franchise, Argylle. But in between the gangsters and the over-the-top heroics, he decided to … Read more
Mario Van Peebles remembers the fun 90s action movie Gunmen, which sparked a long-lasting friendship with co-star Christopher Lambert. The other day, one of our writers sat down with Mario Van Peebles to talk about his upcoming spiritual sequel to Posse, Outlaw Posse. In the pretty awesome conversation, we asked Mario about what we consider … Read more
1991’s Ricochet is a terrific action movie starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow, but it’s frustratingly hard to find. A lot of really fun movies from the eighties and nineties are tough to get decent copies of. While some of the stories have happy endings, other films seem all but doomed to languish until a … Read more
As originally screened under its preferred title, the film ended in what I think was a perfect way, with the inevitable questions about “what happened after?” being addressed via charming, animated elements that were scattered among the end credits. After post-fest testing in the States proved audiences wanted something more overt (read: dumbed down), the … Read more
The horror genre is all about shocking an audience, being subversive, trying new and risky things. Sometimes this means that the best horror movies are the ones you’ve missed. For every The Sixth Sense there’s a corresponding The Thing, only appreciated well after its initial release. Whether they weren’t marketed correctly by the studio, weren’t understood … Read more
Johan, who is disturbed by the surreal visitations in his dreams, suffers from insomnia. He shares with Alma the drawings of the hideous forms that haunt him, but keeps his diary, in which he laments the loss of his previous lover, Veronica Vogler, hidden under their bed. Their secluded shelter is interrupted by a baron … Read more
It’s the end of the year at last, which means it’s time to finally catch up on everything you missed in the last twelve months before finalizing your Best of 2023 lists. We had blockbusters from old masters like Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon, action-heavy crowd-pleasers in John Wick: Chapter 4 and Godzilla … Read more
We take a look at one of Sylvester Stallone most underrated movies, the remake of Get Carter, co-starring Michael Caine and Mickey Rourke. Copland was supposed to be Sylvester Stallone’s comeback movie. Despite earning decent box office and generating Sly’s best reviews in decades, it seemed to be the final nail in his coffin as … Read more
At this point, it might be a bit of a pointless exercise to single out any superhero movie as “underrated.” The fact is there are so many comic-book films these days, and they dominate so much pop culture conversation online (See: A large portion of what is published every day on this website) that really no film … Read more
In high school, Curry was considered too skinny and short for it—“150 pounds soaking wet” and about 6″2′. But Curry, with the wisdom of his pro-baller father, Dell Curry, developed a secret weapon, a crisp jump shot that weaponized the defensive line and could easily elevate his team’s lead by three, six, or nine points … Read more