Matthew Razak is obsessed with movies. A freelance entertainment journalist and member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association, he has a degree in film from Vassar College. Get in touch with him here.
Liam Neeson fighting a bunch of wolves in the Arctic should be an easy sell to anyone, so it's pretty obvious why that is the way the studios decided to market The Grey. After all, it's...
Heist movies are pretty much the height of awesome when executed appropriately, but a lot of pieces have to fit together for that to happen. You've got have a clever story, characters you want to succeed, at least...
It's nearly impossible to caputre the sort of magic that the first three (some would argue only two of them) Indian Jones films captured. They're advetnure cinema at its finest and somehow managed to not only...
Most people don't appreciate how rare it is to have a totally satisfying dumb action flick come out. Most of the time we let a lot of things slide with our action movies, and we end up letting...
Before any Twihards jump on me for simply hating this because it is a Twilight movie and I have a penis, I'll point you to my reviews of the past films (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse) which show me...
The makers of the new The Thing, a prequel to John Carpenter's legendary horror film of the exact same name, did something really smart when they made the film. The went in a different direction. Instead of trying...
Here's the rundown: eight years in the future real boxing has fallen to the wayside (even more so than it has now) in favor of robot boxing. The appeal is obvious. Robot boxing allows for brutal fights with...
Killer Elite is a perfect example of how it's not just about having the right ingredients, but whether or not the chef knows how to cook. With Jason Statham, Robert DeNiro and Clive Owen in a film based...
It's hard not to walk into Contagion and not be completley unexcited. Not only is the "virus killing everybody" thing so cliche (its basically the reasoning behind every zombie film these days) that it's...
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is based off a made for TV movie that was actually pretty solid when it released. But it was solid for television, and it came out in an age when solid for...