"I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies. Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices. "

Can I just be honest? I don't really know a lot about film. I may talk big about the depths of thematic development or the meaning of cinematic style, but like the rest of us I'm just making it up as I go. But if there's one thing I know for sure about movies it's that I prefer film to digital. I think digital filmmaking is good for little more than lowering costs. I love film stock. Sure, some of that comes…

One element I haven't seen much in the praise of this film is actually how funny it is. There is a subtle but direct layer of levity, which is mostly used to ease the very palpable tension. I saw it twice in theaters and both times one particular line got a hearty response from the audience. Nearly all of it surrounds the chemistry of it's two leads, and the individual choices they made regarding their characters.

Tom Cruise (in arguably what's a career-best turn) as Vincent sometimes uses very flat sarcasm sometimes to get his point across ("I shot him, the bullets and the fall killed him"), that in no way lessens the amount of menace he puts across in…

I am surprised how I missed this awesome Tom Cruise movie. It's feels unusually to see him play the titular bad guy, but he pulls off as a merciless, cold-blooded killer in this movie directed by Michael Mann. With every minute, every second never wasted, it is a high-octane/one night action thriller movie that is enjoyable on every level.

The story starts off with Max, an LA taxi driver, going around his regular routine. When a man named Vincent comes in the cab, he offers Max $600 to make five stops. Max later realizes that Vincent is a contract killer and is forced to cooperate with him. With time not on their side, it is a chase involving the police,…