Author Stephen O'Nion

"If it was never new and it doesn't gets old then it's a folk song." Starting with the music would probably be logical. Reuniting the Coens with producer T-Bone Burnett some fourteen years after O...

She calls her mules Grace and Redemption, he dubs his horse Brown; therein lies a relatively comprehensive summation of Mary Bee Cuddy (Swank) and George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones). As the pair journey across...

Pesky Russians, sneaky intelligence agencies, whizzingly distant locales, exotic women with intriguing accents... Pierce isn’t the only one who’s been here before. Though Brosnan sells hard-bitten like...

2014 is a damned fine year for Daniel Radcliffe, and Horns a damned fine outing (“witty” emphasis on "damned"). Initially playing as a cross between The Invention of Lying and Bill’s New Frock, as...

Family, eh? Ya gotta love 'em. Even when your wife is cheating on you with your boss, your mother’s demanding you home for seven days, your sister won't stop bleating advice and one of your brothers has a...

Which of these isn’t uttered during Draft Day? “I dedicated my life to this sport - just like you.” “This city deserves a championship, and I’m the guy to deliver it!” “When I wake up, I...

Declining to note that honeymooning at an isolated cabin in the woods - “we’re gonna have the whole place to ourselves” - is asking for trouble, Honeymoon soon passes its table-setting cliché and...

Ah, the Vegas Bachelor Party! It’s been too long. A whole year in fact. Fortunately little has changed. Except now the women have as much fun as the men - not those darn mother-in-laws though, eh? - and...

“Bill Shakespeare was a wonderful poet but Burt Bacharach he ain’t.” With these words Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates, a name and character more suited to breakfast cereal than high school directing, sets...

Life of Crime is fine. Characters are played gamely; costumes are pleasingly authentic; the story... proceeds. Really, this isn’t one for superlative adjectives. Fleetingly snappy - the minimum...

Annie had it all: two great kids, a loving marriage with radio producer husband Jay and a financially successful blog (?). Today though, her life’s about to turn upside down! After handing out half a...

Much of the dialogue is incomprehensible, the young blood is bland (though ninety seconds of screentime apiece doesn't help), and the acting comes down to a game of smirk or grimace - but The Expendables 3 is...

Unlike other entries in this series, The Day After Tomorrow isn’t particularly reviled; it grossed over $500 million and doesn’t fare terribly on either IMDb (rating: 6.4) or score aggregators like Rotten...

Last Love begins with Michael Caine attempting an American accent and wandering the streets of a rose-tinted Paris, in mourning. Having fallen in with Poésy, herself nursing issues - “I like your beard,...

Kevin Costner is Ethan Renner. Fresh from washing his mouth with gravel and his brain with cancer, he must injure and kill anyone he comes across to satisfy the wishes of his handler, Amber Heard… ... An...