Truthfully, the “Hostel” franchise should have stopped at one. Eli Roth’s 2005 horror hit pushed the envelope on what audiences…
Browsing: Las Vegas
I’ve visited Las Vegas many times, wandered that big jewel-encrusted oasis standing amidst the vast desert wasteland of Nevada. The…
In “Ocean’s Thirteen,” our gang return to Vegas when a sleazy casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses Reuben (Elliot Gould).…
With “Ocean’s Eight” releasing on Friday, I thought I’d review the trilogy, which starts with 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven” based on…
Like Martin Scorsese’s renowned “Goodfellas,” his 1995 effort “Casino” would again concern mobsters, the reach of their empire, and would…
In a film full of lonely shots, perhaps the most solemn is a fade out of an unused tricycle as…
While not surprising, most reviews on Jon Turtletaub’s 2013 comedy “Last Vegas” liken it to the sensation “The Hangover” or…
Audiences appetites are so over-saturated for the banality and crassness dredged up by Hollywood’s raunch-comedy pool that when a smarter…