A MURDERED WIFE. A ONE-ARMED MAN. AN OBSESSED DETECTIVE. THE CHASE BEGINS. If you ever come to Sylva, North Carolina, there is at least one must-see tourist attraction – the train wreck from The Fugitive (1993). After shooting this expensive action scene that had a bus colliding with a train, the crew left the wrecks … Continue reading The Fugitive: Doc on the Run
A DISTRICT ATTORNEY OUT FOR A CONVICTION. A NEW LAWYER OUT OF HER LEAGUE. A YOUNG BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. After witnessing a mob attorney’s suicide, and learning his secrets, 11-year-old Mark (Brad Renfro) finds himself in danger; attorney Reggie Love (Susan Sarandon) tries to protect him from the mob and the authorities. Joel … Continue reading The Client
THE FUSE HAS BEEN LIT… After escaping from a prison in Northern Ireland, notorious terrorist Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) makes his way to Boston where he targets Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), a veteran on the bomb squad. Bridges hadn’t really made any action movies before, but he’s solid here as the cop with a … Continue reading Blown Away
IN 1992 A BATTLESHIP’S BEEN SABOTAGED BY NUCLEAR PIRATES OUT TO STEAL ITS WARHEADS. NOW, SURROUNDED BY TERRORISTS, A LONE MAN STANDS WITH A DEADLY PLAN OF ATTACK. When the USS Missouri is overtaken by terrorists, it’s up the battleship’s cook (Steven Seagal) to save the day. Seagal’s most successful action movie was a step … Continue reading Under Siege
YOU KNOW HIS NAME. When the CIA realizes that a former technician of theirs, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), intends to expose a top-secret file and has made contact with Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), the hunt is on once again. It took nine years for Damon and Paul Greengrass to reunite for a third sequel to … Continue reading Jason Bourne
THE CIA’S LAST HOPE IS IN THE MIND OF A CRIMINAL. When a London-based CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) is murdered, the agency hires a cutting-edge scientist (Tommy Lee Jones) who transfers the agent’s memories into the mind of a psychopathic convict (Kevin Costner). This may not sound like a good idea on paper, and things … Continue reading Criminal
JAPAN, 1945: GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WAS GIVEN A MISSION TO DECIDE THE FATE OF A NATION, THE GUILT OF A LEADER, AND THE TRUE PRICE OF PEACE. In 1945, U.S. Brigadier General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) is assigned the task of investigating whether the Emperor of Japan should face war crimes charges. A drama that … Continue reading Emperor
In the 19th century Nebraska Territory, spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) volunteers to transport three women who have lost their minds back east, and enlists the help of a man (Tommy Lee Jones) she saves from being hanged. A genre-bending Western from Jones who succeeds in combining immense pain in the story with a sense … Continue reading The Homesman
BIG BUSINESS JUST CUT THE WRONG GUYS. When a Boston shipbuilding giant starts downsizing, Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) loses his job, but he’s far from the only victim. TV producer and writer John Wells’s feature directing debut is a comment on the Great Recession of 2008, where we follow several white-collar workers and how they … Continue reading The Company Men
THEY ARE BACK… IN TIME. When an alien criminal (Jemaine Clement) escapes from his lunar prison, Agent J (Will Smith) has to go back in time to 1969 to save K (Tommy Lee Jones)… and the Earth. Ten years after the last movie in the franchise came another sequel – which was more fun and … Continue reading Men in Black 3
SOME CALL IT ORGANIZED CRIME. OTHERS CALL IT FAMILY. Former mob boss Giovanni Manzoni (Robert De Niro) and his family are part of an FBI witness protection program and try to make a new life for themselves in Normandy, France. A bit of an odd film for Luc Besson to do, an action comedy without … Continue reading The Family
LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY. Wealthy Harvard law student Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O’Neal) falls in love with a working-class girl (Ali MacGraw), but their romance faces resistance from Oliver’s parents. One of the biggest hits of the 1970s received seven Oscar nominations, which is a bit much for a movie where … Continue reading Love Story
FOR JUSTICE. FOR LOYALTY. FOR FRIENDSHIP. When Melquiades Estrada (Julio César Cedillo) is accidentally shot in Texas, his good friend Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) honors a vow and takes his body back to Mexico to bury him in a small town… but he also takes the man (Pepper) who killed him along for the … Continue reading The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
