With Gareth Evans' acclaimed Indonesian action vehicle "The Raid: Redemption" topping our DVD/Blu-ray picks for the week, we're happy to announce that we're giving away copies of the film to three lucky readers.
Read More »The overwhelming winner amidst a slew of specialty debuts this weekend was Neema Barnette's "Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day." According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, "Loosed" managed to find the best per-theater-average of any film in release, includ...
Read More »American action films have gotten too big for their athletic-fit britches.
Read More »Here's a refresher on everything from this week on Criticwire.
Read More »Should an action film be judged purely on its merits as an action film? Or should it aspire to something greater than that?
Read More »There's no denying the relative unexcitability today of any box office news today that isn't the record-crashing $155 million insanity that was the opening of "The Hunger Games." But that news belongs in a different column, so I digress.
Read More »If you type the phrases "The Raid: Redemption," "review," and "video game" into Google -- which is apparently something I just do for fun -- you get back 265,000 results. Now that's obviously an unrealistic number; even in the age of social media and ever...
Read More »Meet the one guy who didn't like the most acclaimed action movie of the year -- and the angry Internet commenters out to get him.
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