Lone Man With Gun: July 31, 2015: Six Ways to Die

I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole.  First, I don't like Tom Sizemore, and featuring a man holding a gun and a fast car does nothing for me besides signaling that this is a mediocre action movie. The tag line "Six Way to Day and One Death Isn't Enough" What does it even mean! Will pass.

Lone Man With Gun: July 24, 2015: American Heist: Won't See It.

This posters is a double whammy for me.  First, it's got guns up the wazoo featured in the most ridiculous, cartoonish and buffoonish way. Second, I kind of hate movie titles with the adjective "American" in it as if somehow it makes the subject matter more unique, but in fact makes it seem more self important and provincial in an ignorant way. "American Heist", as if the heist is more unique because it's perpetrated by an American. "American Sniper", as if the sniper is bigger than life because he is American. "American Beauty" as if there is a special brand of beautiful due to the subject matter's Americaness. "The American President", as if he is more human than most other presidents. "American Psycho" as if the psycho is somehow more deranged because of his Americaness. "American Hustle" as if the scam artists are better and more wiley because they are Americans. "American History X", "American Gangster"  . . . and the list goes on.

Just because this movie embodies two of my pet peeves, I don't think I can bring myself to even recommend it.  Too bad it seems to star some of the more respectable actors like Academy Award Adrien Brody (what happened to you, Adrien?), Hayden Christensen, Jordana Brewster.

Lone Man With Gun: July 17, 2015: Korean Movie: A Hard Day

Foreign Movies are also in on the gun action. This Korean movie about a detective down on his luck finding that someone has been following him all along. The premise is intriguing, and the fact that it won a award at the Cannes Film Festival and glowingly mentioned by Hollywood Reporter suggests that it is pretty good. I'm not sure I will make a special effort to go see it. But you should check it out.