2013 – Movie Mavericks Podcast

The Wolverine (2013) – Review

March 1, 2019March 24, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Famke Janssen, Hiroyuki Sanada, hugh jackman, The Wolverine, Will Yun Lee

James Mangold brings his first-class skills to the superhero genre with outstanding results in a morose, exciting, and gorgeously designed

Action Reviews

Getaway (2013) – Review

September 23, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Courtney Solomon, Ethan Hawke, Getaway, Jon Voight, selena gomez

Getaway may have been released in 2013 but it just as easily could have been made in the mid-nineties post-Speed

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Pacific Rim (2013) – Review

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, charlie day, Charlie Hunnam, guillermo del toro, pacific rim, Rinko Kikuchi

It’s Top Gun meets Godzilla as filtered through the imagination of visionary director Guillermo del Toro in, Pacific Rim. This

Action Comedy Reviews

Red 2 (2013) – Review

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Anthony Hopkins, bruce willis, Byung-hun Lee, catherine zeta-jones, Dean Parisot, helen mirren, john malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Neal McDonough, Red 2

Red 2 works better than the first film because this time around the whole affair doesn’t feel like a gimmick.

Comedy Drama Reviews

Delivery Man (2013) – Review

April 8, 2017April 5, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Britt Robertson, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, Delivery Man, Jack Reynor, Matthew Daddario, vince vaughn

Delivery Man feels like a warmed over Vince Vaughn vehicle. It features the Vaughn character archetype; a sweet-natured near-do-well, with

Action Featured Reviews SciFi

Elysium (2013) – Review

October 3, 2016 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, elysium, jodie foster, matt damon, Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner

Elysium isn’t the masterpiece some were expecting following director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9. That film was nominated for ten Academy

Horror Movie Reviewathon Reviews

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) – Review

October 5, 2015August 19, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Barbara Hershey, Insidious: Chapter 2, James Wan, Lin Shaye, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins

Insidious was a startling creep-fest back in 2011. It premiered against the much-hyped return of Wes Craven and the Scream

Featured Horror SciFi

Dark Skies (2013) – Review

October 3, 2015August 12, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Dakota Goyo, dark skies, j.k. simmons, josh hamilton, Kadan Rockett, Keri Russell, Scott Stewart

Dark Skies is a solid little chiller for two-thirds of it’s running time. Then the third act torpedoes the story

Drama Reviews

Dead Man Down (2013) – Review

September 8, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, colin farrell, dead man down, Dominic Cooper, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, terrence howard

Dead Man Down is a deadly serious movie, about serious people, doing serious things. The melancholy mood set early weighs

Action Featured Reviews

Homefront (2013) – Review

August 19, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, clancy brown, Frank Grillo, Gary Fleder, Homefront, james franco, jason statham, Kate Bosworth, rachelle lefevre, winona ryder

Homefront knowns exactly what it is and sets out to entertain with no pretensions. This is an unabashedly low-brow action-thriller

Action Family Featured Reviews SciFi

Iron Man 3 (2013) – Review

August 18, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, ben kingsley, don cheadle, Guy Pearce, gwyneth paltrow, iron man 3, James Badge Dale, jon favreau, Rebecca Hall, robert downey jr, shane black, Stephanie Szostak

In 2008, Robert Downey Jr.’s interpretation of Tony Stark was a blast of cinematic freshness. It was a major actor

Drama Featured Reviews

Paranoia (2013) – Review

August 10, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Amber Heard, Embeth Davidtz, Gary Oldman, harrison ford, josh holloway, julian mcmahon, liam hemsworth, Lucas Till, Paranoia, Richard Dreyfuss, robert luketic

If John Grisham ever penned a YA novel and Oliver Stone adapted it for the screen, it would look and

Action Featured Reviews SciFi

Ender’s Game (2013) – Review

July 8, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, abigail breslin, ben kingsley, ender's game, Gavin Hood, hailee steinfeld, harrison ford, VIOLA DAVIS

Longtime fans of Orson Scott Card’s novels have cried foul over the many contentious liberties taken by the filmmakers. One

Action Comedy Featured Reviews

2 Guns (2013) – Review

June 13, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2 guns, 2013, Baltasar Kormákur, Bill Paxton, Denzel Washington, Edward James Olmos, james marsden, mark wahlberg, paula patton, Robert John Burke

2 Guns is a shot of adrenaline in the deary late summer months of cinema-going. The script is quick-witted and

Action Horror Reviews SciFi

World War Z (2013) – Review

June 12, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, brad pitt, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Marc Forster, Mireille Enos, world war z

World War Z is the surprise of the summer, this is the ‘event’ movie audiences have been waiting for. Moving

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