War is Hell. After a succession of movies that sprang out of the savagery of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan
War is Hell. After a succession of movies that sprang out of the savagery of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan
As we continue our path through the baffling entity known as the Sniper Franchise, we reach the section of the series that really baffled me.
You’ve got to respect a sequel that not only recognises the strengths of its predecessor, but doubles down hard when bringing them to the fore.
And still the Sniper conveyor belt rolls on…However, with its seventh instalment, something strange seemed to happen to this franchise that all snipers have to
As we head into occupied territory on the way to face the final days of the German army, we unsurprisingly find ourselves once again in
At this point in the Sniper timeline, it’s genuinely tough to think of anything new to say about the sixth entry in the neverending, sharpshooting
Is it me, or does the killer shark movie finally seem to be entering a period of creativity that goes beyond shamelessly ripping off Jaws,
Since no one seems to want to remember the scrappy days of the Roger Corman produced Carnosaur, the realms of the dinosaur movie has mostly
As we approach the five movie mark of a franchise that stubbornly refuses to roll over, there’s almost a sense of peaceful calm that washes
Like a sniper it waited. Silent. Unmoving. Dormant. Virtually invisible to all but the highly trained. However, when the exact time was right, it sprang
If it wasn’t for a cadre of insanely talented martial artist/filmmakers who dragged the Kung-Fu genre out of the locked off, old school mindset, it
The most strange thing about the continuing adventures of Tom Berenger’s legendarily miserable, nine-fingered sniper is that he has continuing adventures in the first place.
Regardless of your stance of the bewildering longevity of the the Sniper franchise, you have to give Tom Berenger all the props in the world
Cinema has always been stuffed full of ironies, but one of my favorite is that Sniper, a movie about the stealthiest of military professions, somehow
Anyone who has watched the thoroughly unnecessary Dirty Dozen TV movie, Deadly Mission, will probably agree that it’s an extremely pale imitation of an original
As long as I’ve been watching examples of needless, cinema bypassing movie sequels to long defunct franchises, I’ll never truly understand why they’re allowed to
It may be a supremely callous thing to suggest, but even though the horror of the Vietnam war devastated an entire generation, split a country
True story. When I watched The Fatal Mission, the fourth and final entry into the thoroughly unnecessary trio of TV movie sequels to follow The
There’s a condition that states that some people just get addicted to war. Be it the constant adrenaline rush of being in a war zone
Of all the puzzling questions that arose from the Behind Enemy Lines franchise (Why does it exist? Who wanted more?), surely the most perplexing of