Posted on July 31, 2013
“Cold Comes the Night” (also known as Cold Quarter and Eye of Winter) is an American crime thriller film directed by Tze Chun and co-written with Oz Perkins and Nick Simon. The film stars Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green, Ursula Parker and Leo Fitzpatrick. A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve...
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Posted on July 30, 2013
OLDBOY is a provocative, visceral thriller that follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. Co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley, OLDBOY...
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Posted on July 30, 2013
Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg lead an all-star cast in “2 Guns“, an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unexpected partnership: Neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. For 12 months, DEA agent Robert “Bobby” Trench (Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Michael “Stig” Stigman...
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Posted on July 29, 2013
“Trance” is a 2013 British psychological thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge. The film stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel. The world premiere of the film was held in London on 19 March 2013. Although the description of the plot below is linear, it is not the only method of interpreting the time line. Washington Post writer Michael O’Sullivan describes...
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Posted on July 28, 2013
Goldfinger 1964 – Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell
Production: United Artists Corp.
Release date: 17 September 1964
“Goldfinger” is the third film in the James Bond series and also the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1964, it is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars...
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Posted on July 27, 2013
“In a Lonely Place” is a 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart’s Santana Productions. The script was adapted by Edmund North from the 1947 novel In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. Bogart stars in the film as Dixon Steele, a cynical screenwriter suspected of murder. Grahame co-stars as Laurel Gray, a neighbor who falls under his spell....
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Posted on July 26, 2013
“Winchester ’73” is a 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, and Stephen McNally. Written by Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards, the film is about the journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another and a cowboy’s search for a murderous fugitive. The movie features early film performances by Rock Hudson as an American Indian, Tony Curtis, and James...
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Posted on July 25, 2013
“Luther” is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. A first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC One from 4 May to 8 June 2010. The second series of four episodes was shown on BBC One in summer 2011. During the 2011 Edinburgh TV Festival, BBC One controller Danny Cohen announced a third series,] which ran...
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Posted on July 24, 2013
“47 Ronin” is an 2013 American fantasy-adventure-action film depicting a fictional account of the forty-seven Ronin, a real-life group of samurai in 18th-century Japan who avenge the murder of their master (known as a “chūshingura” in Japan). The American studio Universal Pictures is producing the adaptation. The film is directed by Carl Erik Rinsch and stars Keanu Reeves and an ensemble of Japanese actors. Filming started in Budapest in March...
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Posted on July 23, 2013
“The Counselor” is an thriller film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, which is also his first original screenplay to be produced. McCarthy has written at least three other screenplays that are known: Whales and Men, Cities of the Plain (1984), and No Country for Old Men (“began as a screenplay in 1984”). The film stars Michael Fassbender, with Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penélope...
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