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Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for the film, "The Beekeeper." "To be(e) or not to be(e), that is the question." No, this is not a reference to the famous soliloquy featured in William ...

"Who the f**k are you? Winnie-the-Pooh?" deadpans Agent Verona Parker (Emmy Raver-Lampman) early on in The Beekeeper, a pleasing indicator that everybody involved knows exactly the movie they're ...

Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember “The Accountant” with Ben Affleck? Or “The Tax Collector” with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about ...

Jason Statham would not make a good Hamlet. He knows it, and his audiences know it, too. A Jason Statham film doesn’t promise grand soliloquies or deep examinations of the soul; just big, explosive ...