A 'call' you might want to take. The H-Bomb: It's a typical night for Los Angeles 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), taking an array of calls ranging from domestic disputes, to medical emergencies, to the occasional crank, and handling them all with the kind of professional detachment that would be required of those who would have a job like this. Then she … [Read more...] about The Call
Jack the Giant Slayer
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I hear the snores of boredom! The H-Bomb: Over the last couple of years, we've been seeing a new trend coming out of Hollywood, the revisionist fairy tale, where they take classic stories and give them a “modern” twist. Like, for example, taking the main characters from said stories, giving them weapons, reinventing them as ass-kickers, and casting … [Read more...] about Jack the Giant Slayer
Paranormal Activity 4
Enough already! The H-Bomb: I'm just going to cut right to it, here, Paranormal Activity 4 is what you get when you take a movie franchise that is fueled only by one single idea, one single gimmick, and just run it completely into the ground. It starts to feed off itself, cannibalize itself, just recycling the same old shit until it stops being a valid continuation of the … [Read more...] about Paranormal Activity 4
A Good Day to Die Hard
The series that refuses to die... The H-Bomb: Bruce Willis makes a shockingly un-triumphant return as John McClane, the hero cop who always seems to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. This time, that place is Russia, where his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), has been arrested for murder. Mere moments after McClane arrives at the courthouse where his … [Read more...] about A Good Day to Die Hard
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 "I'm your worst nightmare. The kind that makes you cry out for your mother." The H-Bomb: It's been ten years since Bruce Wayne (Peter Weller) hung up his bat suit and bid adieu to crime fighting for good. The 53-year-old billionaire now spends his days driving race cars and his nights swilling down scotch with his … [Read more...] about Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
