Directed By: Yimou Zhang Written By: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy Runtime: 1 hr 43 minutes I’m so happy they cast Matt Damon as the lead in The Great Wall. Middle-aged white men are dangerously underrepresented in Hollywood nowadays, and giving recognition to a criminally underused actor was such a brave, progressive decision by …
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Ranking the BOURNE villains – from worst to best
Every hero requires a villain and the Jason Bourne franchise has plenty of villains to root against. I do want to see him go up against other groups of villains though, as opposed to just CIA bigwigs and their hired assassins. Maybe for the next sequel, Bourne could take down some other group of baddies. In …
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FlixChatter Review: Jason Bourne (2016)
As a fan of the Bourne trilogy, I was dismayed when in 2012, Universal went ahead with the sequel (Bourne Legacy) without Matt Damon. That fact perhaps made me more excited to see Damon teamed up again with director Paul Greengrass for a fifth (well, technically fourth) entry. I guess it's inevitable that a franchise as lucrative …
Genre Grandeur – Heist Movies: Ocean’s Eleven & Ocean’s Thirteen
This post is part of MovieRob's Genre Grandeur (or Guesstimation) series. Thanks to my pal Ted S. for his review of one of his favorite films of the genre. I lost count on how many times I’ve watched these two Ocean’s films; I’m going to pretend that Ocean’s 12 never existed; the self-indulgent film was …
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Throwback Tuesday: Fave scenes from THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002)
Hello friends! I thought I'd introduce a new blog series, as I'm so good at keeping up with every single blog series I've put together, right 😉 This series is sort of inspired by Deadpool believe it or not. I just saw it last night and it's got a lot of hilarious 80s throwbacks so I thought …
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Music Break: The Martian’s DISCO Classics
One of the things I thoroughly enjoyed about The Martian was the lighthearted tone of the film, despite the obviously dire subject matter of someone being stuck in Mars. And one of the funniest bits in the film involve something totally unexpected... DISCO music! Matt Damon's character Mark Watney initially hated it, but he's not …
FlixChatter Review: The Martian (2015)
It's a testament of a truly good film when two weeks after I saw it I'm still thinking about it fondly and can't wait to see it again. I mentioned in this post that I had been anticipating this film for a couple of reasons, but deep down I still wished it'd be good as …
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