Author Van Roberts

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''BORN A CHAMPION" “Boondock Saints” star Sean Patrick Flanery holds Black Belts in both karate and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so it’s no surprise he staged all the stunts in co-writer...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''BREACH" Counting “Twelve Monkeys” (1995), “The Fifth Element” (1997), “Armageddon” (1998), “Surrogates” (2009), and “Looper” (2012), “Die Hard”...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THE MARKSMAN" The cliches fly like bullets in “Trouble With the Curve” director Robert Lorenz’s formulaic cartel thriller “The Marksman” (** OUT OF ****), with...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''NEWS OF THE WORLD" “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass casts Tom Hanks in his first western “News of the World” (** OUT OF ****) as a gray-bearded Civil War veteran who rides...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''CHICK FIGHT" (2020) In “Come Back To Me” director Paul Leyden’s “Chick Fight” (*** OUT OF ****), dames put up their dukes and puke up their blood at a female only...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THE DOORMAN'' The message in “Versus” director Ryûhei Kitamura’s contemporary crime thriller “The Doorman” (*** OUT OF ****) is never judge a heroine by her looks or allure....

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THE OWNERS" Believe it or not, home invasion movies are not a new phenomenon. In fact, one of the earliest examples of the genre was silent movie director D. W. Griffith's 8-minute...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''HONEST THIEF" The contemporary Liam Neeson crime thriller “Honest Thief” (** OUT ****) lives up to its oxymoronic title. As the protagonist, Neeson plays Tom Dolan, a resourceful but...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''GRETEL & HANSEL" Halloween and horror movies go together like tricks and treats. Horror movies vary from classic Hollywood monster chilling franchises like "Dracula," "Frankenstein,"...

MOVIE REVIEW OF "EMPEROR" Freshman writer & director Mark Amin and co-scenarist Pat Charles shed long-overdue light on Shields Green, an obscure black runaway slave and his role in the...