Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to the world’s number-one storytelling vehicle—film, he enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, Harley-Davidsons, vision questing, rock-climbing, qigong, oil painting, and human rights activism. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by a classical theater training, and has 20 years’ experience as a New York professional actor, working in theater, commercials, and television daytime dramas. He recently narrated the Epoch Times audiobook “How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World,” which is available on iTunes and Audible. Mr. Jackson is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.
Like Brad Pitt’s line in ‘The Devil’s Own’: ‘It’s not an American story—it’s an Irish one,’ ‘Saints and Sinners’ features an all-Irish cast doing IRA things.
Jason Bourne was a CIA patriot with a dangerous mission. Knox is a morally questionable hitman. Both have no memory. Top-shelf storytelling by Michael Keaton.
Dev Patel creates for himself a part Bruce Lee, part John Wick character clearly intended to smash his former nice-guy typecasting with a sledge hammer.
“Wicked Little Letters” demonstrates, hilariously, why everybody should be more than a little bit alarmed at social media’s curbing of the public’s speech.
Apart from Dalton hilariously open-palm-slapping an entire gang into submission, the update is anemic. That said, it still gets grandfathered in for 3 stars.
‘Land of Bad’ is a fine war movie—maybe not on the level of, say, ‘Platoon,’ but easily in the same ballpark as ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.’
“One Life” tells the story of how one British man saved 669 Jewish children from Prague to London before the Nazi could exterminate them. Very powerful.