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THE BEAST: What A Ride It Is!

debbie lynn elias — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:24 +0000

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.

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RENNY HARLIN Takes Us Inside THE BEAST and Finds the Humanity Within – Exclusive Interview

debbie lynn elias — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:27:08 +0000

“I'm most proud of the character work. About being able to tell a breakneck action story that, to me, has deeper character relationships,.."

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BTL Radio Show – 10/05/2026 with special guest RENNY HARLIN talking about THE BEAST (and so much more!)

debbie lynn elias — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:00:07 +0000

Heeee's back!!! A terrific BEHIND THE LENS for you this week thanks to the incomparable RENNY HARLIN, who joins me to talk about THE BEAST, his new podcast Harlin House, his next film “Black Tides,” which is currently in post-production, and so much more!

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MATT SUKKAR Finds Character in the Darkness of THE DEPUTY – Exclusive Interview

debbie lynn elias — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:56:15 +0000

"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.”

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UWE BOLL Is Still Burning – Exclusive Interview

debbie lynn elias — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:17:24 +0000

“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.”

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CITIZEN VIGILANTE – A Gunslinger for a World Where Justice and Law No Longer Ride Together

debbie lynn elias — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:46:43 +0000

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?

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FLOATING CAROUSEL – The More Dating Changes, the More It Stays Exactly the Same

debbie lynn elias — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:24:12 +0000

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.

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THE DEPUTY — Duke Nicholson Earns the Badge One Long Night at a Time

debbie lynn elias — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:17:25 +0000

THE DEPUTY is ostensibly a crime thriller, complete with dead bodies, missing evidence, corruption and an increasingly desperate man trying to determine whom he can trust, but works best when viewed as a character study wrapped inside the trappings of a genre film.

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THE FISHERMAN – Joy, Wisdom, and the Inevitability of Change—According to a Talking Fish

debbie lynn elias — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:15:22 +0000

Enchanting, charming, funny, sweet, and filled with an infectious sense of joy...THE FISHERMAN makes that journey with an abundance of humor, humanity and visual beauty, but above all, it leaves you with joy.

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ZOEY MARTINSON Shines a Light on Ghana, Tradition, Change, and a Talking Fish with THE FISHERMAN – Exclusive interview

debbie lynn elias — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:01:53 +0000

For ZOEY MARTINSON, the shifting relationship between young and old in a Ghanaian fishing village was something worth exploring. Somewhere inside those observations, THE FISHERMAN began to swim. And eventually, naturally, the fish started talking.

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