A Good Day to Die Hard (review)
Bland generic action pudding that manages to be sociopathic, too.
NYPD
QOTD: Has pop culture given us an unrealistic idea of what a police state looks like?
While many people would likely agree that films such as 1984 and Brazil are horrifying depictions of police states — and they are — relatively few people seem bothered by the realities we’re living with today…
Arbitrage (review)
For all the satisfying ironies that are dished up, some of what we’re served is hopelessly naive.
question of the day: What is the modern appeal of Sherlock Holmes?
Does his emotional coldness and daunting intellect have something to say to us that strikes a particular chord right now? Or is Holmes a perennial favorite that storytellers will be returning to and updating far into the future?
Safe movie review: New York noir
A viciously cynical dark fantasy that fashions a new mythos of post-9/11 New York, a bleak but plausible world of the Russian mob, the Chinese Triads, and the NYPD as another gang vying for supremacy.
watch it: Marine shames 30 NYPD cops in Times Square (Occupy Wall Street)
Some of those young cops looks ashamed. As they should.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Other Guys’
In *The Other Guys,* Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are ordinary NYPD detectives trying to move out of the shadow of two superstar detectives, while also trying not to kill each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Other Guys movie review: cops and bunglers
It’s all absurd and overblown and — most importantly — consistently so through to the end.
question of the day: What’s the most egregious fake movie or TV location you’ve seen recently?
It was almost exactly a year ago when we talked about whether it’s important for a movie to be shot in the place where it’s set. This was inspired by Knowing, which had just opened, and which was set in part in New York City but was shot in Melbourne, and it showed. The comments … more…
The Bounty Hunter (review)
Perhaps Tennant ramped up the maliciousness as a distraction from the fact that his stars were evincing zero chemistry…
