Howdy, Kingdom of AE! Back in late March, I had the pleasure of sitting down with art-history-scholar-turned-Broadway-producer-turned-film-director Grant S. Johnson, whose indie spy thriller Agent Game hits theaters on April 8. Agent Game is the conspiracy-laden tale of a CIA interrogation wrong, starring a motley crew of fascinating actors, from Katie Cassidy to Barkhad Abdi to Mel Gibson. CIA officer Harris (Dermot Mulroney) is involved in missions to detain and […]

The creators: Writer/director Glen Morgan, who was in his day one-half of the writing team responsible for some of the finest episodes of the early seasons of The X-Files. 2006 was not his day. (His writing partner, James Wong, is on hand as producer). The plot: First, that viewer which looks for more of the groundbreaking 1974 original than its title, some of the character names, and the setting of […]

Horror remake fever creeps on- though 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street isn’t the youngest major American film to get the remake treatment (The Hitcher, from 1986, was only 21 when it got its very own do-over), it feels like we’ve hit ourselves a sea-change, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s just me. Anyway, it feels like the bulwark has fallen, and we can expect a deluge of mid- and late-’80s horror […]

Maybe I was just in a really good mood when I saw it. But I found Taken to be an absolutely great movie. It is unquestionably a trashy action movie of no particular aesthetic merit, a shallow pleasure at best. But oh, how very pleasurable it is. The movie stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA agent who has retired and moved to Los Angeles to reconnect with his […]