Tag: Ray Park

  • Action Figures: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    Action Figures: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    It’s tempting to throw up one’s hands in despair that the well of source material for movies has dropped this precipitously low, to the level of plastic action figures. To be fair, trash (escapist or just plain trashy trash) has existed since the very first days of the medium. But cinema’s early conception as a…

  • Mutant Mayhem: Bryan Singer’s X-Men

    Mutant Mayhem: Bryan Singer’s X-Men

    Bryan Singer’s X-Men surprised me twice, first in a theater in 2000 and then again on a recent rewatch, by being better than it had any right to be. I used to be a comics fan, and read most of Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr.’s lengthy run on The Uncanny X-Men series in the…