Why Jason might be hard to identify with He’s literally a blank slate. You might think we would most readily identify with an “everyman...

 A wonderful movie: The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Bourne Identity Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 1: No Mo...

In too many of these movies the focus is on assassins who know how to kill in the most bad-ass way possible, with a million people shootin...

There are lots of movies in which the hero has some form of amnesia or memory-tampering, only to discover that, in the life he can’t remem...

Given the intensely naturalistic vibe created by new director Paul Greengrass for this movie’s two sequels, it’s tempting to misremember t...

Two final deviations from the checklist rules: Deviation #3: This movie is making me look bad. I wrote a while back and the danger of ...

This movie has a surprising number of deviations. Will it get away with all of them? Deviation #2: There is a HUGE missing beat in thi...

This seems like a very straightforward action movie, but it had even more interesting deviations from the norm than Blue Velvet did last ...

Updated to the sixth and final checklist! Jason Bourne is pulled from the sea by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnes...