The 2009 Star Trek reboot went into pro­duc­tion on the eve of the writ­ers’ strike and there­fore had no right to be as enter­tain­ing — or to make as much sense — as it did. In fact, it was so suc­cess­ful that it has become the gold stan­dard of dor­mant fran­chise resus­ci­ta­tion and I’m hop­ing […]

It’s easy to laugh at age­ing movie stars. Crumbs, when they make films like The Expend­ables they active­ly encour­age us to make jokes about creak­ing joints and dicky hips. But let us pause for a moment and salute the longevi­ty of one of the great­est movie stars there ever was, some­one who was head­lin­ing box […]

What­ev­er they are pay­ing Robert Downey Jr. to play Iron Man, it is is worth every pen­ny. Iron Man 3, the third instal­ment in his own branch of the Mar­vel Uni­verse series that also fea­tures Cap­tain Amer­i­ca, The Mighty Thor and The Hulk is hurtling towards a bil­lion dol­lars of box office rev­enues and might […]

While orig­i­nal Die Hard direc­tor John McTier­nan lan­guish­es in min­i­mum secu­ri­ty fed­er­al prison his heirs are keep­ing the action movie flame alive. Most recent­ly, Antoine Fuqua’s Olym­pus Has Fall­en might as well be called Die Hard at the White House as one man attempts to res­cue the hostages held cap­tive in the impreg­nable bunker beneath […]