Heart of the Beast Review: Beautiful Country, Heavy Hand
Beautiful country, heavy hand. Brad Pitt and one very good dog brave Alaska in Heart of the Beast , a survival drama that is loveliest when it stops pushing.
David Ayer
A Working Man Review: Jason Statham Sticks to What He Knows Best
David Ayer and Jason Statham team up for another action thriller that is familiar, yet overlong and unnecessarily convoluted.
The Beekeeper Review: Unbee-lievable Action
Does The Beekeeper represent a new kind of Bee-movie? ason Statham's latest actioner flies with a hive of mindless January releases that offer what audiences expect.
Spoiled Rotten 262: Ranking All Of DCEU
Ben and Daniel rank the DCEU films from least favourite to favourite on Spoiled Rotten Podcast!
Spoiled Rotten 193: Revisiting Suicide Squad
Ben and Daniel revisit Suicide Squad!
Jared Leto is the Reason Suicide Squad is Terrible
Abetted by director David Ayer, the actor's method approach to The Joker helps explain where Suicide Squad went awry.
Suicide Squad Review
There's no rest for the wicked in Suicide Squad , one of DC's cooler properties that gets it's edges rounded off in another misfire.
Fury Review
Fury mostly succeeds as a war film, but don't expect anything original.
Video: Let’s Drive a Tank!
To celebrate the release of the movie Fury our film guy heads to Oshawa, Ontario to ride in and learn about Sherman tanks.
Home Entertainment Review: Sabotage
Sabotage (David Ayer, 2014) – There’s an interesting problem with Sabotage that most films never quite suffer from. Once you go through the few supplemental features on the film’s Blu-Ray (which was not made available to press and I had to go out and buy on my own), you’ll get wind that there was a […]
End of Watch Review
End of Watch perfectly embodies writer-turned-director David Ayer’s crime movie formula (Training Day, Harsh Times, etc). You take a basic crime movie premise, twist it initially in an intriguing way, populate it with talented actors, tease out some unexpectedly dark drama, toss in a few brutal set pieces, and then slowly let it all slip away as the film becomes increasingly conventional in a race to the finish line.
TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 6
As TIFF 2012 finishes up its first weekend, our ongoing coverage looks at The Master , To the Wonder , High Park on Hudson , End of Watch , Aftershock , Sightseers , The Crimes of Mike Recket , No One Lives , and Midnight's Children .
