Retired Marine Sniper Bob Lee Swagger and former Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter are back with The Third Bullet and, after more than 20 years together thrilling audiences with stories of war and the art of the hunt, the
Lay the Favorite is the film adaptation of Beth Raymer’s memoir detailing her life in the world of sports gambling. Director Stephen Frears gathered an impressive cast with everyone from Bruce Willis to Catherine Zeta Jones taking key roles. It
The new mob drama Red Widow debuting this weekend is headed by the talented Radha Mitchell. The Silent Hill star plays Marta Walraven, a wife, mother and avid biker who comes from a Russian crime family. Her husband, played by Anson Mount (Hell
Author James Patterson’s detective hero Alex Cross has taken on a life of his own. The character has been featured in countless novels and brought to the big screen by two top Hollywood actors – Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry.
C. Robert Cargill was once known as Massawyrm on the movie blog Ain’t it Cool News. After years as a freelance film writer, Cargill teamed up with director Scott Derrickson on the hit horror film, Sinister. But Cargill wasn’t done
Director John Moore (A Good Day to Die Hard) joined many other “artists” in Hollywood recently when he sat down for an interview with nerdist.com and revealed his extreme left wing stance on gun control. I know, take all the
S. Cameron Roach has been in the military for 24 years. He has been to three wars, speaks Arabic and is an expert on Middle East matters. However, there is one more aspect to his resume that he recently revealed
At a recent press day for their film, A Good Day to Die Hard, director John Moore and his stars discussed bringing ’80s hero John McClane back in a fish out of water, father-son hybrid story that promises one big action
Many Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives would be happy at the thought of high school students reading something like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for their English classes. However, even the most modest fan of Rand’s Objectivist ideology
James Patterson’s Alex Cross series has become a literary phenomenon. In The Psychologist and the Butcher: Adapting and Filming Alex Cross, a special feature on the Blu-ray combo pack of the latest film version of the literary hero, it’s said
Kim Harrison is a popular novelist. She has plenty of fans, bestselling books, an apparent sense of humor and she’s even won some praise from critics. More power to her. I wish her all the best. I just hope I
The idea of a man being taken over by his own subconscious, or alter ego, was immortalized in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Storytellers continue to borrow elements of that tale, just consider
Author Sam Sheridan’s latest work may be one of the most unique books of the last decade. The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse presents to us his very own nightmares about what disaster
Two new releases from Monterey Media prove that video and board games are not the only inspiration for films these days. “Trade of Innocents” and “Bringing Up Bobby” are both based on original screenplays, and each is available now on
If there are three books that are must owns for book lovers this year they are the just-released Hemingway collections from Scribner Classics – “Hemingway on War,” “Hemingway on Hunting” and “Hemingway on Fishing.” The collections not only provide a detailed
The last 12 months may have been disappointing overall for conservatives. However, film-wise, it was actually a pretty good year. Many mainstream films took obvious conservative stances and conservative documentaries like “Occupy Unmasked” and “Hating Breitbart” were aplenty, informing and
The Christmas season is a great time of year, isn’t it? Family everywhere, presents, snow falling, people bundled up by the fire and, of course, one of my favorite holiday treats is always readily available. No, not those delicious tiny
“6 Degrees of Hell” is amateurish to its core. From the writing to the acting to the technical presentation, it is low-grade horror. This may actually win it some cult points down the road among horror fiends, but the rest
It’s disappointing that a film like “The Day” is so bad. Judging from the way the crew speak about the making of the flick, there was a lot of passion put into this post-apocalyptic thriller. What the finished product ends
According to merriam-webster.com, one of the definitions of the term “tea party” is as follows: an exciting disturbance or proceeding. Basically, a protest. Well, while everyone was out catching the Black Friday Deals (I caught a few myself), I decided
David Baldacci’s new novel, “The Forgotten,” is slow, mostly boring and inhabited by paper-thin characters. Sorry. I had to get that out of the way. It’s not that I’m not a fan of Baldacci’s work. In fact, the last hundred
This year proved an exemplary one for conservative documentaries. “2016: Obama’s America” properly scrutinized the sitting president and became a sleeper hit for its efforts; “Occupy Unmasked” set the record straight when it came to the misguided Occupy Wall Street
A trailer for Netflix’s latest foray into original content, “House of Cards,” is now out on the Web. Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey stars in a series executive produced by David Fincher of “The Social Network” fame. Synopsis: Francis Underwood (Spacey) is
The zombie genre sure has come a long way since 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead,” the granddaddy of the modern undead movement. Now, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is one of the highest rated television shows and two new zombie
“Savages” has a saving grace that almost makes me forgive it for every corny line, disjointed scene and overwrought plot point, and that saving grace is the film’s manic energy injected by the madman we all know as Oliver Stone.
