Travis Johnson

An amiable throwback to the kind of kids adventure films we used to get on the reg back in the day – think BMX Bandits and Frog Dreaming, both by Ozploitation veteran Brian Trenchard-Smith – the WA-shot Go! Never even attempts to rewrite the rulebook, instead relying on recognizable archetypes, appealing performances and a suitable brisk clip to keep the wheels spinning until it crosses the finish...

Effectively a clapback to Kathryn Bigelow’s “hunt for Bin Laden” political thriller, Zero Dark Thirty (a trailer for Bigelow’s film actually shows up in the background of one scene here), The Report puts us in the shoes of Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), who is tasked by his boss, California Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) to investigate instances of American agents using t...

Well, it took a decade but we’re finally back with the geographically-named heroes of Zombieland, who are finding that, even with the world overrun by slavering hordes of the living dead, people are still gonna have the same emotional and relationship problems that they’ve always had. You’d think that being able to hang your hat in the now-abandoned White House would take some of the sting out of ...

As a person and an icon, Judy Garland was n effervescent combination of incredible talent, nigh-crippling tragedy, and camp charm, and so it makes sense that Judy the movie is too. Director Rupert Goold (True Story) and screenwriter Peter Quilter, who adapted his own stage play, End of the Rainbow, manage to thread a very narrow needle with this assured biopic, which manages to be funny, touching,...

At the coda of 2008’s Rambo, the fourth film following the exploits of alienated Vietnam veteran turned freelance killing machine John Rambo, we got a glimpse of our hero (Sylvester Stallone) returning to his family’s ranch in Arizona, the violence which had wracked his life for some 30+ years ostensibly behind him. The appearance now of a fifth Rambo flick indicates that this is not the case; aft...