A good friend asked if I could recommend a few good films that were available through the Amazon Prime Video program, so I started digging. Now they specifically asked about whether the movies are available for downloading, a cool feature of the Prime program that’s available for some, though not all, movies you can watch through Prime Video. Unfortunately, there’s no list of movies that meet this criterion on the site so it’s up to…Read More
Review: Star Trek Beyond
As a lifelong fan, I so wanted to love this latest Star Trek film. I’ve been hooked on the optimistic future, melodrama and visual effects of the show since William Shatner was helming the original Starship Enterprise. When J.J.Abrams brought his flair and action sensibilities to the reboot of the franchise after ten increasingly dull films, I loved it. The 2009 reinvention of the entire mythos was excellent, from its gripping opening scene to the…Read More
Review: Hitman: Agent 47
Not every film has to be a masterpiece. Not every film needs top-notch visual effects, storyline and Oscar-worthy performances. Sometimes, as with the recent The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [read my review], a style and a playful sense of the backstory can be sufficient to create something entertaining. And let’s be frank, Hitman: Agent 47 is based on a popular series of ultra-violent video games that posit a world where genetic manipulation, DNA splicing and a childhood world…Read More
Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
The Star Trek TV show was an important step in the evolution of science fiction, a post-Cold War series that offered a hopeful future, a future where race, creed, religion and gender were irrelevant and that even aliens from other planets were accepted as equals. The TV show spawned additional series, along with ten feature films, but things had become rather grim and the campy humor and brash personalities of the Star Trek universe had…Read More