Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale:4 out of 12It’s official. They’ve sold out... Hansel and Gretel have joined their pals Abraham Lincoln (Vampire Hunter) and Snow White (and the Huntsman)  by getting a Hollywood makeover. My best guess: The Brothers Grimm needed the money to payback Charlie Sheen.*Sigh* Let's get on with it...The Story:The concept is about what you'd expect: The fairy tale brother-sister couple have grown...

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25 YEARS OF DIE HARD: Die Hard (1988)

Often imitated, never replicated, DIE HARD (1988) still stands as an action movie masterpiece. It's got everything you can ask for in an action movie. A fantastic script, a unique setting, iconic performances, and intense action scene after intense action scene. Oh...and an amazing soundtrack. But I know what you're going to say. "Derek, what can you, a no name BLOGGER tell me about DIE HARD that I don't already know?"Well, let's go for a ride and...

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THE LAST STAND : The Boys Are Back In Town...But Should They Be?

He's back, baby. After taking time off to pursue his favorite hobby of running California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is where he should be staring in a Hollywood action bananza. That movie would be THE LAST STAND. Sure, he appeared in THE EXPENDABLES (2010) and in THE EXPENDABLES 2 (2012) he had a role, but this is Arnold prime as the lead role with a collection of solid performers in tow, including Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (THE LAST KING OF SCOTTLAND...

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Dueling Movies: Marvel’s The Avengers vs. The Dark Knight Rises (The Final Word)

In 2012, the rivalry between “Marvel zombies” and DC Comics fanboys left the comic shops and came to a head at cineplexes across the globe. The lines were drawn.In one corner, you have Christopher Nolan’s Batman franchise, a far more sober take on the comic book genre than audiences were used to. In the other corner we had Marvel Studios’ string of colorful superhero flicks, all building up to their all-or-nothing final chapter, The Avengers. We’ve...

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ZERO DARK THIRTY: It’s About Time….

           Nothing has affected the United States of America more in the past two decades than the attacks of Sept. 11th 2001. At the dawn of a new century our country was attached in the most brutal way possible and the consequences have reverberated through our society and the world ever since. You are reminded of this when ZERO DARK THIRTY begins and all you hear is a collection of recorded voices screaming, talking...

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