Author: Neil Miller

Based on having not seen its predecessor, I walked into Jose Padilha’s Elite Squad: The Enemy Within with the expectation that I’d be completely lost…

Fresh out of a long stint in jail and ready to start a new life. Isn’t that how the second life of a criminal always…

Before walking into Luis Estrada’s Mexican crime thriller El Narco, I had heard several people say, “Oh, that’s the one that’s like Scarface.” It’s an…

Being middle class in a first world country is a tough racket. You just can’t ever get where you want to be. You know, buying…

From a cinematic export standpoint, there is no greater thing coming out of Korea than pure and beautiful violence. Some of the brutality we’ve seen…

It’s a terrible thing, walking away from a movie mentally criticizing it for all of the things it didn’t include based on one’s expectations. But…

There’s a rumor going around in this world. I’ve heard it. Chances are that if you were alive during any part of the 80s, you…

In the genre of revenge thrillers, neither the French nor the South Americans are slouches. For decades, both cultures have produced countless bloody bonanzas that…

The films of Marvel Studios have come full circle, and not a moment too soon. What began with a flurry of excitement over Iron Man,…