Author Van Roberts

Collide// How Far Would You Go For Love When it was released in Germany back in 2014, director & co-writer Eran Creevy’s uninspired but bullet-riddled crime thriller “Collide” went by the title...

Split // 23 and Counting If tour-de-force performances alone made great movies, then “Sixth Sense” writer & director M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split” would be one of the best.  Instead,...

Live By Night // The American Dream Has a Price Two-time Oscar-winning writer & director Ben Affleck of “Good Will Hunting” and “Argo” has helmed an above-average, old-fashioned, Prohibition Era...

Rogue One // A Star Wars Story Nothing worthwhile comes without sacrifice, and the superlative science fiction saga “Rogue One, A Star Wars Story”  exemplifies this notion.   Basically,...

Decommissioned // Guilty Pleasure Sometimes, if you don’t want to contend with large, shoulder-nudging, holiday crowds to see the latest theatrical blockbuster, you can resort to either Netflix and Redbox...

Allied // CAT & MOUSE Espionage The atmospheric World War II thriller “Allied” differs drastically from actor Brad Pitt’s previous WW II epics “Fury” (2014) and “Inglourious Basterds”...

DON'T BREATHE // LEAVES YOU GASPING   Horror movies have grown increasingly lazier these days with their reliance on jump-scares to terrify audiences. As the exception to this rule,...

JASON BOURNE // FULL CIRCLE The Bourne trilogy of espionage thrillers, including “The Bourne Identity” (2002), “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004) and “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007), established...

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN // A NAILBITER Tarzan movies were once a Hollywood staple between the 1930s and the 1960s.  Actually, Hollywood had been producing Tarzan movies during the silent film era...

THE SHALLOWS // A NAILBITER Spanish helmer Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Liam Neeson in “Unknown,” “Non-Stop,” “Run All Night,” and has plans for another film with Neeson entitled...