Niels Arden Oplev

FLATLINERS: Some Things Should Stay in the 90s
FLATLINERS: Some Things Should Stay In The 90s

Flatliners is a terrible remake of an already bad movie, whose basis is genuinely interesting but the vision poorly conceived.

FLATLINERS Trailer
FLATLINERS Trailer

The neon-bathed sci-fi/horror movie Flatliners is getting a sequel 30 years later, but you’ll be forgiven for thinking this is a remake.

DEAD MAN DOWN, A Pointless Action Flick

In Dead Man Down, Colin Farrell plays Victor/Laszlo (whom I’ll just call Victor henceforth), a Hungarian gangster who’s part of an organized crime syndicate. We soon find out he is not who he pretends to be. The movie opens with a talk about children, which nicely sets the mood and foreshadows some of the movie’s story.