Movies starring Jack

Since Liam Neeson began his action star career with Taken, most of his play-for-pay films have been depressingly generic. Although far from a revelation, In the Land of Saints and Sinners rises above many of those. Perhaps that’s because the...

Sequels generally exist for one of two reasons: because there’s a creative, story-based purpose or because the earlier film made a ton of money. Like most of the Pixar sequels, Incredibles 2 has been brought to the screen because Disney saw ...

The Incredibles may become the first Disney/Pixar film not to dominate at the box office. That statement has nothing to do with the film's quality - in fact, The Incredibles is among the best of Pixar's digitally animated movies. However, it's go...

When it became mainstream in the late 1990s, the Internet fundamentally changed the way human beings communicated. E-mail replaced phone calls and letters as the primary means of long-distance communication. The social media revolution, which ...

Based on the evidence at hand, it's impossible to say whether director Oliver Hirschbiegel's (Downfall) original cut of The Invasion would have been any good. What can be said is that the mismatched blending of Hirschbiegel's low-key horror and th...

Aside from the title, the basic concept, and the use of the surname “Griffin,” Leigh Whannell’s “reboot” of The Invisible Man bears little resemblance to the 1933 classic Universal monster movie and even less resemblance to the 1897 ...

With superhero movies, it's almost axiomatic to state that the second film is the best of the series. The reason isn’t difficult to divine: having dispensed with the obligatory origin tale, the movie-makers can weave a more compelling yarn. So ...

What is it about clowns, anyway? Why do some people find them hilarious while others are creeped out by them? Whatever the case, author Stephen King exploited the duality of clowns – always smiling, seemingly-friendly, weirdly inhuman – in...

It has been three long years since Quentin Tarantino stunned the cinema world by claiming the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or, a $100 million-plus box office gross, and an Oscar nomination – all for his sophomore outing, Pulp Fiction. Sinc...

Of the nine films credited to Quentin Tarantino as a director (combining Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2 into a single entity), Jackie Brown may be the one most deserving of a re-assessment. Released after a three-year break following the...