Feb 27, 2015
Out of Frame: Wild Tales
“Wild Tales” is an exciting, gory ride that gets heavy-handed and loses steam, but there’s more than enough to satisfy the lust for blood and entertainment.
Jul 31, 2012
Find a Hacker, Win a Gun
The Daily Caller got hacked yesterday and defaced with ads for hardcore pornography. In response, the conservative website is offering the person who tracks down the hacker a free semi-automatic handgun. Oh boy.
Mar 18, 2011
Out of Frame: I Saw the Devil
In most movie plots described as cat and mouse games, there’s a whole lot of chasing, a few close escapes, and eventual capture. But have you ever watched an actual cat play with a mouse? The catch happens pretty quickly. Then the cat stuns or injures the mouse to ensure that real escape is virtually impossible. What follows is an impossibly cruel game of hardly sporting catch, maim, release, and repeat, ending with a gruesome death and a tiny broken body placed lovingly at your doorstep as an offering.
I Saw the Devil is a cat and mouse game of the latter mold.
May 14, 2010
Out of Frame: Harry Brown
There was a time when Michael Caine was one of the toughest tough guys in the movies. From Harry Palmer to Jack Carter, Caine was charismatic, efficient, and — particularly as Carter — ruthless. Now 77, the actor has, for many years, been playing the sort of roles actors past the retirement age usually play, most often supporting turns as sage counsels or father figures. But in the vigilante saga of Harry Brown, he…