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Eight years ago, director Zach Synder introduced us to a world of battles, legends, and oiled eight-pack abs. His adaptation of Frank Millar’s graphic novel was an entertaining film for its amazing CG work, the intensity of the action scenes, and the ridiculous physique of its Spartan warriors. While it was severely overblown, it presented itself as a Greek storyteller might have done, exaggerated and morphed into something forcibly inspiring.
Now, with
Rise of an Empire, we are told the story of Themistocles, the often forgotten naval commander who made the Spartans’ three-day stand of Thermopylae possible.
Print Edition: September 19, 2012
When DC Comics revamped their universe with the launch of the New 52, so began a new lineage of the Batman comics. Out of all four main comic series,
Batman & Robin has proved to be the most prosperous. The first volume,
Born to Kill, written by Peter Tomasi and inked by Patrick Gleason, follows Bruce Wayne/Batman as he battles a new danger with his contumacious son, Damian, who fights alongside him as Robin.
The entire story is a battle of nature versus nurture, as Bruce persistently tries to direct his son’s moral compass away from what his assassin mother, Talia Al Ghul, burrowed into his mind since infancy. His son’s brutal techniques and lack of compassion concern Bruce as he fears that Damian will not comprehend why he never takes a life. All the while Mr. Nobody, a threat from Bruce’s past, has appeared in Gotham to slam a wedge between Bruce and Damian, hoping turn the boy to his killer instincts.
Print Edition: April 3, 2013
A man with experience placed in a situation set in an expansive building beyond his training or control must fight his way through several adversaries to save his love interest. That is what
Die Hard was in a nutshell. Replace the love interest with a bro-mance between the President and an old bodyguard and you have
Olympus Has Fallen.
Die Hard then the recent
A Good Day to Die Hard catastrophe was. They’ve finally put Gerard Butler back in the style of film he should be in – and we have a solid action film! It is quite a relief to see the former Leonidas on screen in something that isn’t rom-com.
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Print Edition: October 1, 2014
Contrary to popular belief, Liam Neeson can do films that donât involve him karate-chopping people who have taken his daughter. He has proven in several films, most recently
The Grey, that his range is wider than just being an invincible force of vengeance.
At first glance,
A Walk Among the Tombstones seems like a generic mystery thriller. But within a few minutes after the opening credits, the film deters from the standard
Taken procedure by killing off the captured woman.
The film is an investigative thriller as Matt Scudder (Neeson) converses with prosperous drug dealers who all have one thing in common: a loved one has been taken by a team of sadistic serial killers. Based on the book written by Lawrence Block, Neeson plays a private investigator trying to match the clues about who the killers are, and why they are targeting these women.