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The Accountant

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 128 min. / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 35.99

Starring: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, John Lithgow, Jean Smart, Andy Umberger, Alison Wright, Robert C. Treveiler, Mary Kraft, Jake Presley.

Cinematography Seamus McGarvey

Film Editor: Richard Pearson

Original Music: Mark Isham

Written by: Bill Dubuque

Produced by: Lynette Howard Taylor, Mark Williams

Directed by: Gavin O’Connor

Comic book action thrillers are so influential today, that more naturalistic suspense thrillers are giving way under the strain. Just winding up is a long series of paternal revenge & response thrillers starring Liam Neeson, who is forever striking back against the ‘evil forces’ threatening the sacred family unit. No action hero ever fights for right for its own sake anymore, it’s always because of some heightened sense of family loyalty or personal duty – a ‘me’ motive. My...

Director Gavin O’Connor calls The Accountant a puzzle film because there are multiple dimensions to just about every character in this action drama. The film, out Tuesday from Warner Home Entertainment, is a largely satisfying character study with more than its necessary quota of gunfire and mayhem,

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is on the Autism spectrum and through flashbacks, we learn that his parents were at a loss of how to deal with him, leading to their divorce. Their father (Robert C. Treveiler), a decorated Special Forces Psyop Officer, is left to raise his sons as he saw fit, which meant extensive military and martial arts training around the world. As they grew up, though, the boys went their separate ways and Christian used his gifts to become a forensic accountant for the Underworld. Known only as the Accountant, he was a bane to law enforcement all over but...

As I wrote about earlier this week, Ben Affleck is a pretty huge star in Hollywood, and rightly so. He can often command the screen, and later this week he has another star vehicle to showcase just that. It’s The Accountant, a slightly high concept shoot em up that has Affleck both in hero mode as well as serious actor mode. It’s an odd mix, one that sort of works, but also sort of doesn’t. It’s worth seeing if you like silly action flicks, though it can be a bit frustrating because of the effective drama put on display as well. Through it all though, Affleck shines. The film is an action thriller centering on Christian Wolff (Affleck), a seemingly mild mannered accountant. Christian suffers from autism, though he’s high functioning and has a much different skill set from others on the spectrum. You see,...

On the surface, Dr Ronald Meltzer has it all. He's a brilliant surgeon, one of the best in his field, having specialised in re-attaching severed nerves. He probably has enough money to buy the swankiest property that money can buy – or at the very least, a fancy speedboat. He's even thinking about settling down with his girlfriend, a woman called Melissa Burns. So what's grating his cheese?

Well, it turns out that Melissa's only his make-believe girlfriend. The two had one platonic date after Meltzer saved Melissa's sight, but Meltzer's deluded himself into thinking that one day they'll be walking down an aisle, cutting a three-tiered cake and jetting off to the Bahamas for a honeymoon. In the real world, despite his medical brilliance and sackfuls of money, Melissa isn't looking to get to know Meltzer better. If only someone would tell Meltzer, given that he's gone all creepy stalker...

The Rum Diary Johnny Depp, Amber Heard Photos. The Johnny Depp, Amber Heard The Rum Diary (2010) movie photos from the Bruce Robinson directed film features the two movie stars in the throws of passion. The Rum Diary‘s plot synopsis: based on the book by Hunter R. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp...

The Rum Diary Trailer. Bruce Robinson‘s The Rum Diary (2011) movie stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard, and Giovanni Ribisi. The Rum Diary‘s plot synopsis: based on the book by Hunter R. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

If you know anything about video games you’ll know by now that La Noire is a detective thriller, set in 1940s Los Angeles and made by Rockstar – the same guys behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. You just might have heard that it was the first video game to bag a slot at the Robert De Nero’s Tribeca Film Festival, back in April. But what you most certainly know is that it boasts fantastic, hitherto unprecedented, motion capture for a video game. This development has enabled Rockstar’s Team Bondi to focus the bulk of the game around gauging the facial expressions of crime suspects.

This gameplay mechanic wouldn’t have been possible without the technology backing it up, as La Noire boasts frighteningly realistic and often incredibly subtle facial expressions. Yet Rockstar needed more than just technology if they were to create dozens of distinct...

Four new featurettes for Tony Scott’s runaway train thriller “Unstoppable”, exploring everything from the heroes to the “villain” to the story, and capping off with a look at the film’s monsters, aka those runaway trains. Please to watch. Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and Star Trek’s Chris Pine team with action maestro Tony Scott in this non-stop thriller. A massive unmanned locomotive, nicknamed “The Beast” and loaded with toxic cargo, roars through the countryside, vaporizing anything put in front of it. A veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine), aboard another train in the runaway’s path, devise an incredible plan to try and stop it – and prevent certain disaster in a heavily populated area. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Elizabeth Mathis, Kevin Dunn, Jessy Schram, Meagan Tandy, Kevin Chapman, David Warshofsky, Jeff Wincott, Paul Vasquez, Andy Umberger and directed by Tony Scott. Get...

Ridiculously simple and badly photoshopped poster for Tony Scott’s “Unstoppable”. This thing is so badly done, I’m inclined to believe it’s a fanmade poster, but apparently, nope, it’s real and it just happens to be really, really badly done. Who is Chris Pine playing in this movie, some bland robot automaton? Anyways, via Shadowandact. Unstoppable, a 20th Century Fox drama about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. Pits an engineer and his conductor in a race against time. They’re chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town. It’s all supposedly based on a true story. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Elizabeth Mathis, Kevin Dunn, Jessy Schram, Meagan Tandy, Kevin Chapman, David Warshofsky, Jeff Wincott,...