Tom Jolliffe on female action heroes… With the impending UK release of Atomic Blonde, it now seems a good time to consider the female action hero. You may think this ‘phenomena’ only stretches back to around the time Sigourney Weaver donned a mecha-suit, but it goes back further. There has certainly been a significant rise […]
Why John Wick and Ethan Hunt rule the action genre
Tom Jolliffe looks at the John Wick and Mission: Impossible franchises, the current best in action cinema… Some Spoilers follow: So Mr. Wick has just come out for his third adventure. Some suggestion beforehand had hinted it could potentially be his last. Three can often be a good number to close with. Of course that […]
Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry team in trailer for action comedy The Union
Netflix has released a trailer, poster and images for The Union, the upcoming action comedy from director Julian Farino. The film follows construction worker Mike (Mark Wahlberg) as he is thrust into the dangerous world of espionage when his high school ex-girlfriend Roxanne (Halle Berry) recruits him to join her on a high-stakes US intelligence […]
Halle Berry fights to protect her sons from an evil spirit in Never Let Go trailer
Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for Never Let Go, the psychological horror-thriller from director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Crawl). Halle Berry stars as a mother trying to protect her twin sons (Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins) from an evil that has overtaken the outside world. But when one the boys […]
4K Ultra HD Review – John Wick Stash Book Collection
John Wick: Chapters 1- 3 Directed by Chad Stahleski. Starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Willem Dafoe, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Lance Reddick, Peter Stormare, Franco Nero, Halle Berry, Mark Dacascos, and Asia Kate Dillon. SYNOPSIS: Lionsgate has gone back […]
Netflix won’t release Halle Berry sci-fi The Mothership
Netflix has downed Halle Berry’s science-fiction film The Mothership, cancelling any plans to release the Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) directed movie in the future. According to Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider newsletter, the in-the-can film has been shelved by the streamer for a number of reasons, although non are the du jour decision of a tax write-off, […]
The Contemporary Queens of Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe on the current leading ladies of action… The 21st century has seen many things. Among those has been a push for equality across all spectrums. Of course there’s work still to be done, but progress has at least been made. The action genre has historically been monopolised by male stars. This was slightly […]
Halle Berry to lead psychological thriller The Process
Halle Berry is set to in the psychological thriller The Process from director Tara Miele (Wander Darkly, Little America), as well as producing through her HalleHolly production banner. As per Deadline, the film “follows a seemingly happily married couple, who attend the weekend seminar of Aiden, a renowned self-help guru, and are asked to examine […]
Matthew Vaughn says an exec tried to trick Halle Berry into joining X-Men: The Last Stand
Matthew Vaughn did direct an X-Men film with 2011’s X-Men: First Class, but his time with the franchise almost began a few years earlier. Sadly, it seems like a studio executive was pulling shady moves to lock in some castmates, which rubbed Vaughn the wrong way. While promoting his new film Argylle during his Saturday […]
John Wick: The Best Assassins in the Franchise
Olly Dyche on the best assassins in the John Wick franchise… Assassins in movies are without a doubt, awesome. No matter their skill, or specific way of killing, assassins tend to be incredibly fascinating characters, and there is no franchise that shows the breadth and intricacy of the assassin underworld better – nor cooler – […]
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