‘The Wolverine’ Is a Stranger in a Strange Land
James Mangold's The Wolverine taps into Western tropes and Samurai aesthetics to deliver a more thoughtful, soulful comic book film… until the climax.
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‘Get Shorty’ Is the Purest Distillation of Elmore Leonard
The 1995 Hollywood caper Get Shorty, starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito, was billed as Elmore Leonard's revenge on the movie industry, but it has a funny way of showing it.
In ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’, Liam Neeson Finds Another Way to Surprise You
This latest Liam Neeson vehicle isn't just another vengeance movie; it's about what you expect and about how movies create what you expect.