Chris Evangelista

3 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Chris Evangelista

Jean-Claude Van Damme has made a lot of movies, and many of them are ... not great. But then there are the handful of gems in Van Damme's action-packed career. I'm sure everyone has their own personal favorite, and mine is "Timecop," Peter Hyams' delightfully ridiculous sci-fi action pic (a potential remake was announced back in 2014 but thankfully has never happened).

4 weeks ago | slashfilm.com | Chris Evangelista

Spoilers for "Poker Face" season 2 follow. "Poker Face" is back for season 2 (read our review here), and I couldn't be more delighted. Rian Johnson's wonderful little streaming series is what's called a "howcatchem" rather than a "whodunit": while there's a murder at the center of every episode, these aren't murder mysteries, at least not to the audience. Borrowing a page out of the "Columbo" playbook, each episode tells us who the killer is upfront.

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Chris Evangelista

In 2016, the world met Christian Wolff in Gavin O'Connor's "The Accountant." As played by Ben Affleck, Christian was a man with a certain set of skills. He had a knack for murdering people, and therefore became a highly-paid assassin. But that wasn't his only job. Christian was autistic, which also contributed to him being very good with numbers. Using this to his advantage, Christian became an accountant for the criminal underworld, cooking the books for illegal organizations.

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Chris Evangelista

No one simply fires off one shot in "Havoc," the new bit of action mayhem from director Gareth Evans. When people aim their weapons here, they unleash an almost impossible torrent of rounds, shooting continuously, the soundtrack turned into a thunderous cacophony of gunfire. When the bullets finally do stop flying, your ears will be ringing. It's all a bit overwhelming, to the point where Evans' latest film, which is headed right to Netflix, starts to grow almost inadvertently comedic.

1 month ago | slashfilm.com | Chris Evangelista

Major spoilers for all 5 seasons of "You" follow. After five seasons, the lurid, pulpy, sexy, trashy, and, yes, enjoyable Netflix thriller series "You" comes to an end. Based (partially) on the books by Caroline Kepnes, "You" began its life on Lifetime before making the jump to Netflix, where fans just couldn't get enough of Joe Goldberg, a very handsome, very literate man who also happens to be a serial killer. The twist is that Joe doesn't see himself that way.