Shoot the Glass

The Brothers Bloom is Rian Johnson’s follow-up to 2005’s brilliant high school noir Brick. Personally, I couldn’t wait to see what Johnson would do next. What he has done is take on the conman subgenre, and weaved it into a rich and very entertaining romp about two brothers.
The movie is about Bloom (Adrien Brody) and [...]

Newsflash: Jean-Claude Van Damme can act. Wait, what’s that? Yes, you read it right. The muscles from Brussels is an actor. Who’d have guessed?
Make no mistake, JCVD is not your run-of-the-mill Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie. It’s a smart satire on stardom and loneliness, and celebrity. Van Damme plays a version of himself here, in [...]

Director Brad Anderson gave us The Machinist a few years ago. Since, he has directed some TV shows like The Wire, The Shield, and Fringe. So, it’s fair to say he’s no stranger to the bleak and murky.
Transsiberian is a thriller set, mostly, aboard the Transsiberian railway. Married couple Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily [...]

Is it still cheating if everyone’s doing it? That’s the question Chris Bell is asking in this documentary about performance enhancing drugs. Chris grew up with two brothers, and he was always the scrawny one. With childhood heroes such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Hulk Hogan, he started working out at a young age, [...]

You would have to have lived under a rock not to have heard the fangirls screaming about Twilight for the last six months. Some people called it a Harry Potter-killer, as if the two couldn’t co-exist. What inane reasoning is that?
This movie, which is based on the best-selling novels by one Stephenie Meyer, follows [...]