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Sin City at 20: The Story Behind the Stylish, Blood-Soaked Neo-Noir Comic Book Adaptation

April 2, 2025 by admin

Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Sin City as it turns 20… In present day Hollywood, shooting films in digital backlots has become something of a commonplace occurrence. But two decades prior it was viewed by the industry as the ground-breaking next step in VFX driven visual storytelling. In this context, we take a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Frank Miller, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Josh Hartnett, Marley Shelton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Rosario Dawson, Sin City

4K Ultra HD Review – RED: 2-Film Collection

April 1, 2024 by Brad Cook

RED: 2-Film Collection. The action-packed movies RED and RED 2, starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, and a bunch of great actors in smaller roles, arrive on 4K Ultra HD in a nice SteelBook edition. You get both Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD discs, along with digital copies of the […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, News, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Bruce Willis, Byung-hun Lee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Thewlis, Dean Parisot, Ernest Borgnine, Helen Mirren, James Remar, John Malkovich, Julian McMahon, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Neal McDonough, Rebecca Pidgeon, Red, Red 2, Richard Dreyfuss, robert schwentke

When Movie Artwork Was Great

November 26, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the peak of movie artwork (and subsequent decline)… Movie making is a long drawn out process. From those first scrawled notes that slowly evolve into script, to the preparation, production and post, so many elements combine to deliver a final product. Then you have the small matter of selling said film. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Amityville Witches, Blade Runner, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, First Blood, Goonies, Masters of the Universe, nemesis, Star Wars, the warrior and the sorceress

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

November 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Expend4bles, Expendables, Harrison Ford, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Mission: Impossible, Sylvester Stallone, taken, The Equalizer, The Matrix Resurrections, Tom Cruise

Die Hard at 35: The Story Behind the Seminal Action Movie Classic

July 24, 2023 by admin

Hasitha Fernando looks back at Die Hard as the action classic turns 35… At the height of its popularity there was nothing that could quite match 80s actioners. Headlined by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and  Sylvester Stallone, Die Hard was released at a time when the action cinema was dominated by macho, muscle bound […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Alan Rickman, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, John McTiernan

The Best of Bruce Willis

April 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With the release of the legendary screen star’s final movie, Tom Jolliffe celebrates the best of Bruce Willis… All of Hollywood was saddened last year by the news that Bruce Willis had been forced to hang up his gloves and retire from making movies, with a dementia diagnosis bringing to an end the career of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 16 Blocks, Armageddon, Bruce Willis, Death Becomes Her, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Last Man Standing, Looper, moonrise kingdom, Pulp Fiction, Red, Sin City, Sixth Sense, The Expendables 2, The Fifth Element, Twelve Monkey's, Unbreakable

Movie Review – Assassin (2023)

March 31, 2023 by Robert Kojder

Assassin, 2023. Directed by Jesse Atlas. Starring Andy Allo, Nomzamo Mbatha, Mustafa Shakir, Dominic Purcell, Bruce Willis, Fernanda Andrade, Barry Jay Minoff, Eugenia Kuzmina, Hannah Quinlivan, Vanessa Vander Pluym, and Christian Rodrigo. SYNOPSIS: A man dies as part of an experimental military program. A former black-ops soldier takes his place to find who killed him. […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Andy Allo, Assassin, Barry Jay Minoff, Bruce Willis, Christian Rodrigo, Dominic Purcell, Eugenia Kuzmina, Fernanda Andrade, Hannah Quinlivan, Jesse Atlas, Mustafa Shakir, Nomzamo Mbatha, Vanessa Vander Pluym

Movie Review – Paradise City (2022)

February 12, 2023 by Robert Kojder

Paradise City, 2022. Directed by Chuck Russell. Starring John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Blake Jenner, Praya Lundberg, Stephen Dorff, Corey Large, Branscombe Richmond, Lorenzo Antonucci, Kate Katzman, Carrie Bernans, Mary Ann Perreira, and Amber Abara. SYNOPSIS: Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Amber Abara, Blake Jenner, Branscombe Richmond, Bruce Willis, Carrie Bernans, Chuck Russell, Corey Large, John Travolta, Kate Katzman, Lorenzo Antonucci, Mary Ann Perreira, Paradise City, Praya Lundberg, Stephen Dorff

Bruce Willis’ final film Assassin gets a trailer, poster and images

February 10, 2023 by Amie Cranswick

Saban Films has released a poster and trailer for the sci-fi action thriller Assassin, which marks the final film in the illustrious career of screen icon Bruce Willis following his retirement last year due to aphasia. Directed by Jesse Atlas and starring Willis, Andy Allo, Nomzamo Mbatha, Dominic Purcell, and Mustafa Shakir, the film follows […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Andy Allo, Assassin, Bruce Willis, Dominic Purcell, Jesse Atlas, Mustafa Shakir, Nomzamo Mbatha

Detective Knight: Independence trailer teases Bruce Willis’ last case

December 20, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

Lionsgate has released a trailer, poster and images for Detective Knight: Independence, the third and final instalment in writer-director Edward Drake’s action thriller trilogy, and one of the final films from screen legend Bruce Willis. The film sees Willis return as Detective James Knight as he races to stop a misguided vigilante masquerading as a […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Bruce Willis, Detective Knight: Independence, Dina Meyer, Edward Drake, Jack Kilmer, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Lochlyn Munro, Timothy V. Murphy, Willow Shields

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