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Heartbreak Ridge (1986) – Review

January 26, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1986, Bo Svenson, clint eastwood, Everett McGill, Heartbreak Ridge, Mario Van Peebles

The same year Oliver Stone’s Platoon took home the Best Picture Oscar, Heartbreak Ridge found box-office success as an audience

Comedy Horror Reviews

Krampus (2015) – Review

January 25, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2015, Adam Scott, Allison Tolman, Conchata Ferrell, David Koechner, Emjay Anthony, Krampus, Krista Stadler, Michael Doughtery, Stefania LaVie Owen, Toni Collette

Krampus looks great, is cast well, and has a festive yule-tide tone. But this is a feature-length film with only

Comedy Reviews

Shanghai Surprise (1986) – Review

January 22, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1986, Jim Goddard, madonna, Paul Freeman, sean penn, Shanghai Surprise

Witnessing a great actor giving a bad performance in an awful movie is informative and fascinating. At Close Range, The

Action Reviews

Born American (1986) – Review

January 21, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1986, Albert Salmi, Born American, David Coburn, Mike Norris, renny harlin, Steve Durham, Thalmus Rasulala

Born American is Renny Harlin’s debut feature film. It shares several remarkable similarities to Red Dawn, Rambo, Russkies, and a

Action Reviews

Rambo: Last Blood (2019) – Review

January 19, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Adrian Grünberg, Adriana Barraza, Paz Vega, Rambo: Last Blood, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, sylvester stallone, Yvette Monreal

Rambo: Last Blood presents the title character in a peaceful state of domesticity. In the latest sequel, Rambo is far

Action Reviews

Passenger 57 (1992) – Review

January 18, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1992, Bruce Greenwood, Bruce Payne, Elizabeth Hurley, Ernie Lively, Kevin Hooks, passenger 57, tom sizemore, wesley snipes

Wesley Snipes gets his action-star moment in the ‘Die Hard on a Plane’ knock-off, Passenger 57. The same year that

Drama Reviews

Mad City (1997) – Review

January 15, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Costa-Gavras, dustin hoffman, john travolta, Mad City, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Ted Levine

Mad City has a great premise. And for the film’s first 30 minutes it’s gripping. Unfortunately, it’s one of those

Action Drama Reviews SciFi

Glass (2019) – Review

January 14, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Anya Taylor-Joy, bruce willis, Glass, james mcavoy, M. Night Shyamalan, samuel l. jackson, Sarah Paulson

M. Night Shyamalan’s impromptu trilogy (spanning 19 years) comes to a satisfying conclusion in Glass. The story that began with

Action Reviews SciFi

Warcraft (2016) – Review

January 13, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2016, ben foster, Ben Schnetzer, clancy brown, Daniel Wu, Dominic Cooper, duncan jones, paula patton, Robert Kazinsky, Toby Kebbell, Travis Fimmel, Warcraft

Have you ever wondered what one of those SYFY channel movies would look like if it were endowed with a

Comedy Drama Reviews

The Pallbearer (1996) – Review

January 11, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1996, Barbara Hershey, Bitty Schram, Carol Kane, David Schwimmer, gwyneth paltrow, matt reeves, Michael Rapaport, The Pallbearer, Toni Collette

The Pallbearer has a similar charm (and theme) as the seminal 1967 film The Graduate. That film made Dustin Hoffman

Action Comedy Family Reviews SciFi

Shazam! (2019) – Review

January 8, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Asher Angel, David F. Sandberg, Djimon Hounsou, Jack Dylan Grazer, Mark Strong, Shazam!, zachary levi

Shazam, the world’s mightiest mortal, gets his own vehicle in this blast of a film that brings a sense of

Drama Reviews

Speed Kills (2018) – Review

January 7, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, james remar, john travolta, Jordi Mollà, Katheryn Winnick, Kellan Lutz, Matthew Modine, Speed Kills

Speed Kills contains a committed performance by John Travolta that is trapped in a woefully undercooked movie. This instantly forgettable

Action Reviews

White Lightning (1973) – Review

January 6, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1973, Bo Hopkins, burt reynolds, Joesph Sargent, Ned Beatty, White Lightning

White Lightning is credited with starting the Good ‘Ol Boys car outlaw flick. It rightly stars Burt Reynolds, who is

Comedy Family Reviews SciFi

Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) – Review

January 5, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1992, Dwier Brown, Eric Idle, Greg Beeman, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Ireland, Mom and Dad Save the World, Teri Garr, Thalmus Rasulala, Wallace Shawn

There exists a little-seen oddity of a family film named Mom and Dad Save the World. It was released briefly

Drama Reviews

The Way Back (2020) – Review

January 4, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2020, Al Madrigal, Ben Affleck, Gavin O'Connor, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins, The Way Back

Gavin O’Connor’s directorial efforts resonate with me in the same manner that Sidney Lumet’s best work does. Both filmmakers have