This movie isn’t a movie about mixed martial arts (MMA). It’s a movie about underdogs, brotherhood, fatherhood, fears, facing your past, overcoming challenges, hate, alcoholism, abuse,  death, family, marriage, pride, love and life. The two main characters just happen to [...]

Since we’re talking about kick-ass movies today, we might as well talk about Haywire, an action movie from our favorite Ocean’s 11 director Steven Soderbergh: This dynamic action-thriller directed by Oscar® winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) boasts a talented cast that [...]

If you’re not excited to see The Dark Knight Rises featuring our ESM Icon, Bruce Wayne, maybe you shouldn’t be reading our website. This movie is going to be rad. Although we were originally a little worried about Anne Hathaway [...]

Since the movie and car industries essentially grew up together there has always been a fundamental link between them. Directors quickly realised that by combining their elements they could create scenes of absolute style, or climactic and epic chase situations [...]

That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten. In the cult-pop-Tarentino-all-time-ESM-favorite movie Pulp Fiction, Harvey Keitel plays one of the most memorable characters in movie history as Winston Wolf (or simply “The Wolf”). His job?  To fix problems. According [...]

Comic book geeks out there – name the bad guy in X-Men: First Class with the killer sense of style, long hair and mutant power to create tornado-type winds? To be honest, we didn’t know either – so it took a bit [...]

In a world of CG and wires, nothing is more refreshing than a movie dedicated to depicting the reality of how Samurai fought and lived in their time. Directed by Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins is sure to become a cult [...]

When you create a movie that has all the greatest action stars from the 80′s and 90′s in it, you have to expect the intellectual value of the movie to be waay lower than the explosion/blood/action quotient. The unexpected – a beautifully [...]

The answer has two words: Dirty Harry. The question:  why does Clint Eastwood deserve to be an ESM icon? Born May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood has played many roles idolized by men of multiple generations.  From The Man with No [...]

It’s funny that I just came to this realization now. We’ve got people as ESM Icons that do not exist in real life, so why not have the same rule apply for our Dime Piece series of articles? Our first [...]

It’s hard to believe that Star Wars has been around for over 30 years and it still inspires millions of people to be… well, crazy. I admit it, I’m somewhat of a fanboy too, but this latest incarnation of fan [...]

Raise your hands if you originally thought Matt Damon playing Jason Bourne was an iffy proposition. Now raise your hands if you wish you were actually Jason Bourne because Matt Damon played that role so well. Dude, believe me my hand [...]