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Not since the return of Rambo in 2008 has an action film so gleefully celebrated the bodily destruction of dozens upon dozens of its characters in such an incredibly stylish and entertaining manner. Headshots, stabbings, beatings and other forms of maiming are all par for the course in The Raid, …

Time will tell whether Transformers: Dark of the Moon really is the final Transformers film for both director Michael Bay and star Shia LaBeouf, but it's certainly the best one in this hugely successful, but widely loathed franchise. It's devoid of Decepticon testicles, Autobot heaven, offensive robots — and Megan …

Despite some truly fantastic work throughout the '90s and 2000s, Se7en still remains director David Fincher's best film, albeit by a very narrow margin. Dark, dreary and tense, the film is relentlessly freaky and absorbing right from the opening moments when a remix of Trent Reznor's "Closer to God" is …

There are certain staples of any solid Batman diet: cape and cowl, batmobile, Alfred, insane villain and, of course, bat-gadgets. And lots of them. For what good is Batman without his trusty utility belt and the many, many enthralling pieces of tech contained therein? So with The Dark Knight Rises …

In Hollywood, conventional wisdom suggests that it doesn't matter what you do with the first two-thirds of a story as long as you have a strong ending. While the commercial success of any major film series demands that the opposite be true, front-loading a franchise with its best writing, acting …

Despite being set largely in Japan, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift represents everything that much of the world despises about America; its pop culture and morality. The film, like its two predecessors, embraces materialism, loose values and living for today. For the young characters of Tokyo Drift, love …

Films based on comic books don't have the best rep in the world. Even in the years of critical and commercially successful comic films like the Spider-Man and X-Men films, there are still films like Catwoman and Elektra. It's a crapshoot and you never know what you're going to get. …

The Wachowski Brothers (Writers/Directors of The Matrix trilogy) must be sleeping soundly this evening. Their movie will open huge, allow them a blank check on all future projects, and cement their membership into the modern class of effects-savvy directors such as Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Michael Bay, and Roland Emmerich. …

Who am I? You sure you really want to know? If anybody told you I was just a writer who got lucky enough to get paid to see movies, they'd be wrong. It is my destiny, it is my curse, to review Spider-Man.Why is it a curse, you ask? Simple …

Lewis Carroll, author of Alice¿s Adventures in Wonderland, once said: ¿Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.¿ Paul W.S. Anderson, writer/director of Resident Evil, unfortunately takes care of the sounds and drives the audience¿s senses into submission. From its opening, Resident Evil is a …