World's Toughest Movie Critic™ Vaughn Fry studied film at the University of Kansas. He also serves his community as programmer for the Tallgrass Film Festival.
You never know what you are going to get. With From Paris with Love, you see two distinctly different marketing strategies. One set of trailers and TV spot bills it as a hard-boiled action flick, with Travolta unleashing a fury of bullets. The other focuses on the much lesser known Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as he deals [...]
Sporting a mask with a rather long nose meant to impersonate a terrorist centuries before, it can seem difficult to take the title character of V for Vendetta seriously. I have found that anytime a character wears a silly mask, especially one with no moveable mouth, the only way to overlook this is with a [...]
Mel Gibson returns to a leading role in Edge of Darkness with an esteemed crew. There’s the director of one of the best Bond films, GoldenEye (I’ll take it over the non-Bond-esque but still enjoyable Casino Royale). One of the screenwriters is William Monohan, who gained an Oscar for stealing… taking the screenplay from [...]
Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) is an obsessive-compulsive librarian tired of his life in Bangkok. After his latest suicide attempt results in a series of tragic events, Kenji is forced to team with Noi (Sinitta Boonyasak). Noi is his opposite: streetwise, pot smoking, and a slob. Together they slowly open up to each other and discover new [...]
If a movie focusing on angels that are hell-bent on clearing the slate that has become humanity while a loose-canon seeks to protect the next Jesus doesn’t sound like a great idea to you, you aren’t the only one. Despite featuring angels that possess innocent people, I’m more interested in understanding what possessed Sony Pictures [...]
It seems that doom is approaching, judging by the spurt of Hollywood flicks that focus on the chaotic effect or the lives of those lucky enough to make it through. With The Book of Eli the Hughes brothers are able to make a world that is both after the fact while in someway being hopeful [...]
I’ve often wondered why so many films feature vampires as a select few. Okay, so sunlight does more than burn them (sparkling doesn’t count). Otherwise they almost always possess transformative characteristics, immortality, and sometimes they can even fly. It makes sense for them to dominate the food chain and flourish over our comparatively frail bodies. [...]
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