The trailer for Jason Statham’s latest seafaring bruiser Mutiny features an audio sample from the seminal Muhammad Ali documentary When We Were Kings. As a montage of Statham pummeling and shooting goons plays, we hear Ali boast about how he wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, and threw thunder in jail. […]
June was a really good month for posters. It’s the time of year when the late-summer and fall releases overlap with their marketing, providing a lot of great designs to sort through. Of everything I saw over the past four weeks, here are five that stood out among the group in Film Obsessive’s latest edition […]
Ahead of the premiere of Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson unsurprisingly opened up. In the film that has been positioned as Johnson’s major pivot into a serious drama, distributed by indie studio darling A24, critics and fans alike were all wondering what went into this […]
It takes a special kind of director to have a directorial debut as impressive as Con Air. What you may not know is, ten years prior, that same director was behind the camera of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. Simon West’s filmography is nothing short of impressive. His latest outing, Old […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like “The Meg 2: The Trench” might not exist. The Meg 2: The Trench is like beholding a beached whale. The sight is obviously unpleasant due to the rotting carcass […]
Danger inhabits the deep when Meg 2: The Trench sinks its teeth into theaters this August. The sequel to the 2018 literary adaptation The Meg, there’s currently only a trailer hinting at what’s to come. However, like a shark fin slicing the surface there’s enough to get the blood pumping. That’s to say, this could […]
James Wan broke onto the cinematic scene in 2004 with his new-wave splatter horror film, Saw. Since then, Wan has seen great success as a director. In the realm of horror, Wan has made a career of making movies that are terrifying, yet artistically made. He has also been regarded as one of the great […]
As insane as it sounds, 2021 is already halfway over, and what a year it has been. People are getting vaccinated, places are opening up, masks are slowly vanishing, and life seems to be getting almost back to normal. One of my favorite things about the world getting back to normal is that movie theaters […]
Towards the tail end of the ‘90s, Hollywood’s action film industry was running low on fresh ideas. The age of the muscle-bound, indestructible beefcake was at an end after a series of box office disappointments from the once-mighty likes of Schwarzenegger, Van Damme and Stallone. The Die Hard-on-A formula had also begun to drip dry […]
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