We review Shaft as Tim Story explores three generations of Shafts in this latest hilarious 2019 instalment. Not taking anything too seriously Shaft seems to toy with letting Samuel L. Jackson go on a free comedic reign to fully express himself in every delivery of the word ‘mother f**ker’. It’s hilarious to me that no…
I’m a big fan of the cinematic works of William Friedkin, and one of his lesser-discussed pictures is Rules of Engagement, which was released in 2000 during that time when Paramount was cranking out mid-budgeted military/cop-procedural/court-room programmers with lots of production polish and big-stars. Written by Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) from an original story by…
Director: Jalmari Helander Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson These days it seems like light-hearted action movies for young adults are increasingly hard to come by. Kids and teens are left with either superhero franchises or dystopian tales of Divergents in Hunger Games, and the market looks wide open for a “cheap and…
