Ben Pearson

5 days ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

Can anything truly worthwhile be achieved without at least a little bit of pain? That's the question at the heart of a terrific new documentary called "Wick is Pain," which chronicles the unlikely journey of "John Wick" from a spec script called "Scorn" into an indie movie that nearly didn't get made, then into a film that almost went direct-to-video, and finally into a game-changing action franchise that has multiple spin-offs on the way and a fifth entry in the works.

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Michael Mann's classic crime thriller "Heat," which famously saw legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appear in the same scene together for the first time despite having previously co-starred in "The Godfather Part II." The "Heat" diner scene, in which Pacino's world-weary cop, Vincent Hanna, sits down across from De Niro's stoic thief, Neil McCauley, has been an obsession for a certain type of cinephile for years, and has been the subject of...

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

"Havoc," the new action film from writer/director Gareth Evans, has been on /Film's most anticipated movies of the year list for about four years. When we first learned Tom Hardy would be teaming up with the filmmaker behind "The Raid" for a movie about a journey into a corrupt underworld, we were thrilled. But thanks to Covid, the strikes, and some good old fashioned scheduling issues, it's taken much longer than we expected to actually see the movie.

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

This post contains spoilers for "Until Dawn."There's a moment in "Until Dawn," David F. Sandberg's new film adaptation of the popular video game, where the movie gains a little bit of juice.

2 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Ben Pearson

This post contains spoilers for "Havoc."We first learned about "Havoc," the new action film from "The Raid" director Gareth Evans, way back in February of 2021. It's been a long road for the movie, and when I caught up with the filmmaker over Zoom last week, the reason behind that delay was the first thing we talked about. AdvertisementHere's the conundrum I have about "Havoc": Overall, it's my least favorite Gareth Evans movie by a mile.