Straw Dogs
Rod Lurie, back before he became a writer-director of thoughtful adult films like The Contender, The Last Castle and Nothing …
Category Archives: Briefs
Warrior
Sometimes the story is the story — that’s all there is, and the producers stick with it. Gavin O’Connor (Miracle, …
Apollo 18
Exploiting the found footage trend (triggered by The Blair Witch Project on through the recent Paranormal Activity series) that has …
Bride Flight
Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap), three women of very different backgrounds, find themselves on the …
Shark Night 3D
Instead of allowing death or fate or some other philosophically cosmic notion to cut a swath through a group of …
Columbiana
Zoe Saldana, coming off a loose and suitably gritty B-movie turn in The Losers, stars here as a highly efficient …
Spy Kids 4
Robert Rodriguez attempts to continue his family-friendly junior spy series with Jessica Alba as a top-level spy/stepmother who, unbeknownst to …
Conan the Barbarian
Jason Momoa replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger in Marcus Nispel’s reboot of this would-be swords-and-sorcery franchise. Nispel — the revisionary behind 2003’s …
Fright Night 3D
Digging back into the movie archives, director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Mr. Woodcock) sinks his teeth into …
One Day
Director Lone Scherfig (An Education) teams up with novelist David Nicholls, adapting his own book, and stars Jim Sturgess and …
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