This is one of the best, if not the best, film of Renny Harlin’s career… He checks every box an action fan could want —explosions, gunfire, rockets, helicopters, vehicular mayhem, Gatling guns, hand-to-hand combat and knives—but never allows the spectacle to become the whole movie.
Written and directed by Boll and starring Armie Hammer and Costas Mandylor, CITIZEN VIGILANTE is a brutal, bloody, provocative contemporary Western, trading horses and dusty frontier towns for the streets of Europe, social media, the dark web, and an international manhunt…Boll doesn’t pussyfoot around any of this. CITIZEN VIGILANTE is built around an uncomfortable dramatic question: what happens when the distance between law and perceived justice becomes so great that someone decides to fill that void himself?
What makes much of FLOATING CAROUSEL work is that Napier and Powers don’t strain for jokes. The humor generally comes from behavior… [But] Napier and Powers have created an ensemble filled with amusing characters and situations, but not every one of them requires the amount of attention afforded it.
“I’m most proud of the character work. About being able to tell a breakneck action story that, to me, has deeper character relationships,..”
“What I really saw from the beginning was that I had an opportunity here to make a movie that reminded me of a lot of 1970s crime movies where genre movies were allowed to be character movies.”
“I felt I have to basically do a way more radical movie,”. . .“That’s why I did the movie—to shock the people. Also, to show, like, if you push everybody too far, then you will have kind of a vigilante justice.”
One word for this trailer for THE RUNNER – WOW! A few more would be Intense, Heart-Pounding, Nail-Biting. You don’t want to miss this trailer OR the film!
Check out the trailer for David Ayers’ HEART OF THE BEAST!
On June 5th, IFC brings us Jonathan Zuck’s shark-tastic CHUM! Just watch this trailer! There is no such thing as too much blood or too many sharks!
As much as I always love the TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Red Carpet, the presentations in Club TCM in the Blossom Room (the site of the first Academy Awards) at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel are always a favorite of mine, and this year was no exception.
Disney, Pixar, and cute woodland animals? Say no more! Count me in for HOPPERS! Check out the trailer and first images for this animated delight.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Get ready for one last time with the Crawleys in DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE.
