bill paxton

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Aliens

This is a tough one. Aliens is such a classic film that covers multiple genres and generations and there aren’t too many new tidbits of information coming out about the flick. So for some of you,...

Bullet Points: Near Dark

Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 film Near Dark made a conscious effort to be unlike any other vampire movie that came before it… and it succeeded. The movie leaves behind much of the vampire mythology of the movies...

Bullet Points: Streets of Fire

“Don’t worry about it. They always hire bums like me for jobs like this.” Those are the words that Tom Cody delivered to his worrisome sister as he strolled out the door, intent on somehow infiltrating...

Bullet Points: Twister

When I see lists of the greatest villains from action films I usually see guys like Darth Vader, Hans Gruber, or Han from Enter the Dragon but I’m about to review a film with possibly the baddest...

Bullet Points: Navy SEALS

I have a connection with the movie Navy SEALS. I actually saw it in theaters back in 1990. That would mean that I was only six years old standing in the back of the dark theater...

Tough Chicks: Gina Carano – Haywire

Gina Carano wasn’t introduced to the world of action cinema, she crashed the party! Her role in Haywire, opposite some of the heaviest of hitters in Hollywood (Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio...

Bullet Points: Next of Kin

My friend asked me the other day “when did Liam Neeson become such a badass?” My first thought was of Rob Roy or Darkman but then I remembered Next of Kin. Neeson bangs out about three...

Bullet Points: Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise isn’t the box office king that he used to be. Ever since his infamous couch-jumping incident on Oprah his American audience for his movies has slowly dwindled over the years. That is one reason...