Review by Jacquelin Hipes It’s hardly surprising that Jason Momoa—perhaps most recognizable for his turn as Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones—carved out a size-able niche for himself in the action genre after appearing on the HBO juggernaut. With an imposing physique,...
Movie Review: ‘Kickboxer: Retaliation’
Review by Bradley Smith Alain Moussi and Jean-Claude Van Damme return for the seventh, yes “seventh”, installment in the Kickboxer series. Kickboxer: Retaliation is the sequel to 2016's reboot, Kickboxer: Vengeance, and features Kurt Sloane, a year older and back in...
Movie Review: ‘Last Flag Flying’ Blu-ray
Greetings again from the darkness. Apprehension and trepidation are the emotions that strike whenever anyone compares a movie to the classic 1973 Hal Ashby/ Jack Nicholson film THE LAST DETAIL. That holds true even if the novel the film is based on was written by the...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Professor Marston And The Wonder Woman’
Review by Nathan Ligon I thought that I knew just about everything about William Marston and the inception of the ‘Wonder Woman’ character, but it turns out that seeing something can truly illuminate facts that you thought were previously understood. In the last year...
Movie Review: ‘Padmaavat’
Review by Russell Whitehouse Russell Whitehouse is Executive Editor at IntPolicyDigest.org. He’s also a freelance social media manager/producer, 2016 Iowa Caucus volunteer and writer featured on sites like Eurasia Review and Modern Diplomacy. Twitter: @russawhitehouse...
Movie Review: ‘Have A Nice Day (Hao ji le, China, animation)’
Greetings again from the darkness. One need only read the credits to understand that this is a personal project of Liu Jian. It’s kind of comical to see his name come up as writer, director, illustrator, producer, and editor. He even wrote at least one of the songs...
Movie Review: ‘A Ciambra’
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Pio (Pio Amato) is a 14-year-old teen who smokes, drinks, steals and curses. He doesn’t have much of an education and he steals to help support his family. He takes after his older brother, Cosimo (Damiano Amato), who mostly steals cars. They...
Movie Review: ‘The Clapper’
Review by James Lindorf The Clapper, the latest film from writer and director Dito Montiel, which made its debut at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, will be hitting theaters and VOD on January 26th 2018. Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) moves to Los Angeles looking for a...
Movie Review: ‘The Competition’
Review by James Lindorf Two years ago, a short film written by Kelsey Tucker called The PIG Theory was released and on Friday, January 26th, her feature length adaptation hits theaters. Newly titled, The Competition is directed by the in-demand Harvey Lowry (Christmas...
Movie Review: ‘American Folk’
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Everyone in their mid-twenties and older remembers where they were on the morning of September 11, 2001. That day spurred a tectonic shift in American life with very little positive connotation. American Folk challenges the bleakness of those...
