John Wick is a film about an ex-hitman who has recently been done wrong by some folks who are going to really regret doing so. Call it luck or karma but this is one hitman cannot get away from who he ultimately is. The film was directed by David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, both of whom have decades of experience in the film business as stuntmen. While it is not uncommon in major films to have the l...[Read More]
As one of the seemingly few people who unabashedly enjoyed G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and thought it should have been more successful than it was, I doubted that a sequel would ever happen. So it was a pleasant surprise when I heard that a sequel was actually on the way. When the first trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation came out, it was way more impressive-looking than I had expected, and I...[Read More]
Back in 2008, actor Josh Peck established himself as a talent to take notice of with his star turn alongside Sir Ben Kingsley in The Wackness, in which he played a troubled young man who sells pot from an ice cream pushcart. This year, he’s back in the action film Red Dawn – a remake of the much-adored film from 1984 about a fictional Russian invasion and occupation of the United States and the sm...[Read More]
With the release of The Avengers this Friday, the 2012 summer movie season officially begins. As an appropriate tie-in, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ features another summer movie about a team of larger-than-life heroes: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Premise: The war between the elite fighting force G.I. Joe and the terrorist organization Cobra is reignited when Cobra agents within the U.S. go...[Read More]