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The script for Killing Season made Hollywood’s famous Black List several years ago. The project teamed legendary actors John Travolta and Robert De Niro for the first time. So what’s with all the hate from online critics? Let’s ignore the

Vietnam War-era films are tricky to pull off. Most times they end up preachy or ignorant, and other times they are just plain bad. Love and Honor, now available on Blu-ray, happens to be a surprising film treasure that is neither

42 is a film about baseball and overcoming prejudice, and that’s really it. It’s a simply told film that wants to do little more than tell an inspirational story that celebrates individuals while also tugging at your heart strings, and

There’s not much to say about 6 Souls, out now on Blu-ray and DVD following a brief international run. It’s a rather lame attempt at a scary, psychological horror film starring some usually great actors including Julianne Moore. The film

There’s a lot of weird creative decisions in the new submarine thriller Phantom that could end up splitting audiences. First, everyone speaks with their normal American accents despite playing Soviets out of Mother Russia. Another decision that seems a bit

Man of Steel surprised audiences and critics alike with its overt patriotism, acceptance of religion and in being just a badass flick. It certainly was no Superman Returns, which explains the vast difference of opinion when it comes to professional

Director M. Night Shyamalan will be taking a break from receiving bad reviews when he releases a little book entitled, I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing Americas Education

Not too long ago I barely knew what a drive-in movie theater was. I knew there was a time when people sat in their cars making out while B movies played on a big screen, but I assumed those days

I’m not particularly religious, but it’s easy for even me to see Hollywood’s distaste for anything related to religion or faith in today’s films. Most of today’s movies mock religion or portray those even remotely religious as bigoted. This is

Most of Amazon’s new comedy pilots have fallen flat because they feel like they were created by comedy veterans who dashed them off while brainstorming better shows. However, Those Who Can’t is one of the better and funnier pilots Amazon

Browsers is Amazon’s latest comedy pilot targeting a younger generation obsessed with everything from Twitter to musical numbers describing their selfish, whiny emotions. The show is about four interns hired by an online news website. They all come to the

Many on this site remember Jay Mohr for slamming the Second Amendment on Twitter in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Naturally, people became upset. Social media users wrote tweets personally attacking the comedian and podcaster. However, something felt

At some point in between greenlighting pilots for a show about Republican senators to a zombie comedy based off a hit movie, Amazon decided to give Supanatural a try. No, not Supernatural. Supanatural. That title, sadly, is only the beginning of

Besides Zombieland, which seemed to impress few viewers, Amazon’s Onion News Empire is its second highest-profile pilot based on name recognition and talent on board. However, this critic is sorry to report that despite Amazon’s innovative way of choosing which

Amazon made a terrible decision when it came to the pilot for Dark Minions. I assume it was Amazon, anyway.  In the beginning of the show it is explained that Dark Minions is meant to be displayed in claymation and will

Betas is about a group of youthful friends, none of whom could be considered anything close to an alpha male. They belong to the current generation of young males consumed by first-world problems and living vicariously through computer screens. This

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