Rating-Full Price!!   Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative who is on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and follows her efforts from 2001 till that day when the navy SEALs killed his ass. It is a tale that is well told and told with respect. It contains twist and turns that, despite knowing how this was going to end, kept me on the edge of my seat. Along with a great script, terrific characters, a standout performance from Jessica Chastain, and the…

Robert Schwentke's 'RED' was a solid action comedy with a tremendous cast. The story of a group of retired secret agents forced back into the game, 'RED' boasted the likes of Bruce…

Rating-Full Price!!   Quentin Tarantino is back with his kick ass new film, a spaghetti western called Django Unchained.  Containing a great story, terrific performances, good dialogue, and brilliant pacing, Django is Tarantino's best film since Pulp Fiction, and that is really saying something.   The story of Django Unchained is that a black slave turned bounty hunter named Django is going after a plantation owner that has his wife. The story is told in a great…

So, I haven’t done any of the (Hy)Lights for a while, mainly because my other works have been preoccupying me, whether it’s Anime Discovery (and there have been lots of requests for anime to me to review, which is good and all but now I got enough anime to review that might last me 2 years), whatever movie reviews or movie-related things, or personal life in general…..plus, that internet fiasco in November suffered my creativity for that since and now after 3 months of…

When someone says that there is a new crime film set in the '40s and '50s and it has people like Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte and plenty of other fantastic actors and actresses, you would expect it to either be Oscar caliber material or at the very least a very excellent crime drama…

“So……you’re the Hybrid, aren’t you?”

Those words send a chill in Hybrid’s spine once some bounty hunters in the bar found out his identity but one of the guys disagree and said, “Nah, they can’t be him. People said he was somewhere out there hanging out with some angel wolf girl he knew.” Then the conversation continued with, “I thought that was some guy named MAK. Aren’t we looking for The Hybrid?”, “LOOK!! The point is not about whom the fuck ever is MAK…

Rating-(High)Matinee'    The first two Star Wars prequels are awful movies, there is no doubt about that. So how is the third and final Star Wars prequel? In short: Good... surprisingly. George Lucas managed to pull out all the stops in his final prequel, and it pays off.…

The question all of us undoubtedly ask when hearing about a new Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger project is whether they are too old to be action heroes anymore. Though both appeared in 'The Expendables…

Right off the bat Tom Cruise has quite a bit going against him with Jack Reacher. Fans of the novel are quick to point out that the first thing we learn about Jack Reacher is that he’s described as 6’5″ and over 200lbs of solid muscle. Tom Cruise in contrast is 5’7” and arguably weighs no more than 170lbs. On top of that, people generally dislike Tom Cruise for a variety of reasons; he’s a “crazy…

Rating-Matinee'     Now this movie might sound like the stupidest movie in the world when you hear its story: Abraham Lincoln basically grabs an axe and decides to go out and kill vampires. But believe me when I say that once you get past its stupid premise, the movie becomes so much fun.…

Rating-Matinee'    I came into this movie prepared to hate on this movie, I was prepared to DESTROY it. Yet, in the end I actually dug this film. Is it a good movie? Oh fuck no, but I had a blast with this installment, and it is one of (If not the) the best video game movies yet.     The plot…

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is a snitch, or at least that's the basic conceit behind stuntman-turned-director Ric Roman Waugh's 'Snitch.' Johnson plays a father who agrees to go undercover into a drug cartel after the DEA busts his…

Rating-Full Price!!    **Just a quick heads up: I'm one of those that, like Leon and Cyrus, loves Spiderman 3, and the other two Rami films. The Spiderman trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies ever. Reason I'm saying this is because I know there were people that didn't like Spiderman 3, if you're one of those stop reading right now. Otherwise, kick back and I hope you enjoy.**

The story of The Amazing Spiderman is that one day, while going through some old junk,…

Many people feared that this movie would be the equivalent of The Phantom Menace but for the younger generation of fans who grew up with The Lord of the Rings as their epic saga of nostalgia. While this film doesn't descend into such excruciatingly painful territory, the attempts at entertaining the children…

A lot of my anticipation for Sylvester Stallone's 'Bullet to the Head' comes from the fact that Walter Hill ('The Warriors,'…

Despite the changes to one of its climatic scenes in the wake of the shootings at that Colorado movie theater over the summer, I am still very much looking forward to Ruben Fleischer's 'Gangster Squad.' I'm a sucker for action-packed crime films based on real world gangsters, so it's directly in my wheelhouse.…

It has been some time since the death of Tron and after the group had him cremated and spread his ashes across the ocean, the group really have to stick together now since all of them are being hunted by One Blood, the tough-gong assassins responsible for his death. But the group is thinking of splitting up for good, covering their traces, changing their names and moving on with their lives, but Hybrid wasn’t going to just give up just like that. He had to rally them to…

The trend of turning videogames into movies seems to be experiencing a resurgence of late with the 'Assassin's Creed,' 'Splinter Cell,' and 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' films all very much in the works. Though there are no official…

When you think of the current lineup of actors who routinely make waves in action cinema, one name that will be understandably absent is Sean Penn. The award-winning thespian has, since his breakout role as…

After half a century of being one of the most indelible characters in pop culture across the globe, it's only appropriate to ask whether or not James Bond is relevant even to the world of cyber-terrorism. Bond has gone through quite a lot over the years and he's the only iconic character that has consistently lasted…