Casey is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who loves action movies from Schwarzenegger & Stallone's one-man-army era to the Die Hard-style formula, the buddy-cop genre and the golden era of Hong Kong's action cinema. He regularly posted his reviews and feature & retrospective articles on his own blog site, Casey's Movie Mania and also contributed to other movie sites such as Flickering Myth, TVOvermind and Fiction Horizon.
In what could have been a taut, what-if scenario of a sudden nuclear attack with only minutes left for a countermeasure, the otherwise stacked cast and a propulsive first act can’t sustain their momentum to justify the movie’s three-perspective narrative angle.
The third Tron movie breaks the rule by going off the grid and into the real world, with
Joachim Ronning taking over the franchise.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-anticipated first collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio
resulted in a rousing epic quality of a genre-bending action thriller.
Kogonada returns with a third feature that sees the Korean-American director explores his usual theme of memory, only to fall apart in a dull and cumbersome cinematic journey.
Ron Howard’s first narrative feature since 2022’s Thirteen Lives brings out the best in most of his star-studded cast, notably Ana de Armas as Baroness Eloise.
Benjamin Caron’s sophomore feature boasts Vanessa Kirby’s engaging performance, but squanders the otherwise intriguing single-night premise with uneven results.
Bob Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell is back in action as franchise newcomer Timo Tjahjanto goes straight for the jugular in the violent mix of action and humor.
Not as great as the late Leslie Nielsen, but Liam Neeson still proves to be a worthy successor to carry on the legacy in this long-gestating reboot/sequel hybrid of The Naked Gun.
Following the footsteps of recent Halloween and Scream movies, this legacy sequel attempts to capitalize on the nostalgia factor while introducing some fresh blood, with mostly mixed results.
It’s a trifecta of death matches between the Predators in three different timelines against a Viking, a samurai and a World War II pilot in this graphically violent animated anthology film.
