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12 Action Movies Set During Christmas Season
24 December 2009 11:08 PM, PST
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Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, peace and good will towards men. But in Hollywood, its also a time for death, destruction and nearly every form of mayhem. Throughout the 80's 90's and (soon to be history) 00's more and more action films seem to take place during “the most wonderful time of the year”. Whether it be a heist, monster invasion or assault by pirates, so much onscreen action occurs on this jolly day that it's a miracle ole Saint Nick isn't killed in the crossfire. Here are just a few action films where Christmas is actually the last thing on the minds of characters fighting for their lives.Batman Returns (1992) Set during the Christmas season where a tree lighting ceremony in Gotham City serves as a battleground for the struggle between Batman (Michael Keaton), The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). The film opens
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Four
19 December 2009 11:50 PM, PST
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Georgia
Opens: 2010
Cast: Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Johnathon Schaech
Director: Renny Harlin
Summary: An American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native get caught in the crossfire of the five-day Russia-Georgia conflict in August 2008, and then have to deal with their obligation to be impartial.
Analysis: A timely parable on war, or Hollywood propaganda filmmaking at its worst? Wherever it goes, especially in Europe and the former Soviet states, "Georgia" will cause a lot of talk and controversy as the incidents depicted are still so fresh in many's minds. Like all topics of the sort, it'll also have its strong supporters and detractors having opinions on the film long before a frame of footage is screened anywhere.
Shot on-location in Tbilisi, the project also marks a potential return to form for Finnish director Renny Harlin. Given the right material the skilled action director delivered three
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- Garth Franklin
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Scenes We Love: The Long Kiss Goodnight
17 December 2009 11:45 AM, PST
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I praise The Long Kiss Goodnight to anyone who will listen, and if you hung around Cinematical last year, you might even remember that it was one of my unconventional holiday picks. Seeing as we're in the thick of the holly and the ivy, I think it's time to watch one of its snowbound scenes.
Unfortunately, the whims of YouTube mean that every scene I'd like to post is either ten minutes long, or lost in the fan made gaps. So, I've compromised and picked a big chunk of Goodnight that is just chock full of Christmas spirit. First, you have Charlie kicking Henessey out of her car before deciding to circle back to pick him up. She claims it's because she needs him, but we all know that it's all that holiday stuff about "faithful friends who are dear to us." Second, you have Charlie's turnaround when she spies
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Scenes We Love: The Long Kiss Goodnight
16 December 2009 3:32 PM, PST
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I praise The Long Kiss Goodnight to anyone who will listen, and if you hung around Cinematical last year, you might even remember that it was one of my unconventional holiday picks. Seeing as we're in the thick of the holly and the ivy, I think it's time to watch one of its snowbound scenes.
Unfortunately, the whims of YouTube mean that every scene I'd like to post is either ten minutes long, or lost in the fan made gaps. So, I've compromised and picked a big chunk of Goodnight that is just chock full of Christmas spirit. First, you have Charlie kicking Henessey out of her car before deciding to circle back to pick him up. She claims it's because she needs him, but we all know that it's all that holiday stuff about "faithful friends who are dear to us." Second, you have Charlie's turnaround when she spies
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers
29 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll have what she’s having. – When Harry Met Sally
2 Yes Miss Daisy, I be honking. – The Long Kiss Goodnight
3 So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation… – Alien
4 Alrighty then. – Ace Ventura – Pet Detective
5 Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy. – Groundhog Day
6 It’s like looking in a mirror, only, not. – Face/Off
7 Hi, I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork, how have you been? – Grosse Point Blank
8 You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly. – Shrek
9 Tell me about it,
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- Barry Steele
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Renny Harlin Takes Val Kilmer and Emmanuelle Chriqui to Georgia
28 October 2009 8:21 AM, PDT
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We wrote a couple months ago about Renny Harlin's upcoming film about the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia. Now, as then, I'm interested in the film to see if Harlin can take what made a few of his films really entertaining (I'm thinking of Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea and The Long Kiss Goodnight) and apply it to something that isn't so flashy. Can he come up with a film that's actually good? It's been a while. Today he's got some of the cast lined up for the picture, which we now know will be called simply Georgia.
Val Kilmer and Entourage's Emmanuelle Chriqui are the leads in the film, says THR. Kilmer is a journalist covering the conflict; Chriqui is a Georgian grad student who becomes 'entangled' with Kilmer and his cameraman. We'd previously known that the film is about "an American journalist and his cameraman who arrive
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- Russ Fischer
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Emmanuelle Chriqui and Val Kilmer Head to Georgia for Renny Harlin
27 October 2009 9:10 PM, PDT
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It may be hard to believe now, but once upon a time Renny Harlin was an in-demand action movie director, having directed hits like “Die Hard 2″, “Cliffhanger”, and “The Long Kiss Goodnight”. More recently, not so much. Harlin hasn’t exactly had the best of resumes in the last few years, with junk like “The Covenant” and “12 Rounds” to his credit. He’s looking to rise from direct-to-dvd hell (and bad movies starring wrestlers) with the kinda-current themed “Georgia”, a war drama that will be set in the country of Georgia and star Val Kilmer as a journalist covering the recent Russia-Georgia conflict.
“Entourage” star Emmanuelle Chriqui (who can also be seen in the delightful sounding “Women in Trouble”) has now been added to the cast as a Georgian native and doctoral student who becomes tangled up with Kilmer and his cameraman during the event.
Harlin will produce and direct the movie,
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Shane Black Bringing ‘Doc Savage’ Back To The Big Screen?
24 October 2009 10:46 AM, PDT
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Who's excited to finally see a brand new Doc Savage movie up on the big screen?
Anyone? No one? Oh wait, Harry Knowles is! Normally at this point I would poke fun at his enthusiasm for questionable motion pictures, but after reading his post over at AICN this morning I'm actually almost as jazzed about it as he is. (Were I equally as jazzed as Harry I would have spelled 'jazzed' slightly differently.)
Per AICN, a new Doc Savage adventure is moving forward with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci serving as producers. And no, that's not what turned me on. The exciting part of the news is that the duo has brought on Shane Black to write the film's screenplay. Black is best known for writing the Lethal Weapon series, The Monster Squad, The Last Boy Scout, and The Long Kiss Goodnight. But he should be better known for writing and directing the phenomenal Kiss Kiss, Bang
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- Rob Hunter
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Renny Harlin's Five Day War
4 August 2009 12:52 AM, PDT
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He's known for popcorn blockbusters like Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but Renny Harlin's next film is an untitled drama based on the 2008 South Ossetia war.The five-day war saw Georgia launching a large-scale military assault on the Russian-backed Republic of South Ossetia: an internationally unrecognised regional government resulting from the Georgian / Ossetian conflict of 1991-2.Russia responded with some force, but recognised South Ossetia's independence in late August 2008, and had officially withdrawn by October, although tensions remain.According to Variety, Harlin has been waiting to get his teeth into this kind of story for a while. The Finnish director was recently attached to a biopic of his countryman Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, the leader of Finland's 1939 revolt against Russia, but funding fell through. "I've waited a long time to find something with substance and reality," says Harlin. "When I got this script two weeks ago,
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘12 Rounds’ Fails to Entertain For Even 12 Minutes
10 July 2009 3:11 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Renny Harlin’s “12 Rounds,” starring the WWE’s John Cena and now available on Blu-Ray and DVD, is a shockingly dull affair, an action film that tries to maintain a breakneck pace but forgets that movie rollercoasters are only fun with ups And downs instead of just a numbing series of stunt sequences.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.0/5.0
The reasonably effective Cena (although he had more to do in “The Marine”) plays a New Orleans police officer named Danny Fisher, an average cop who happens to stop a brilliant thief whose girlfriend is accidentally killed in the process. A year later, the thief has escaped from prison with only one apparent goal - enacting his revenge on Danny.
12 Rounds was released on Blu-Ray on June 30th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox
The criminal mastermind unleashes a ridiculously plot-hole-filled series of challenges for our muscled hero, including stopping a moving cable car and escaping an about-to-drop elevator.
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The Lure of the Cheap DVD Rack
5 July 2009 7:03 AM, PDT
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Consider this post your confessional as well as my own. You see, I can't resist a cheap DVD. Even if the film isn't something I'd even put on a top 10 or 20 list, if I see it for $10.00 or less, I must own it.
This week's guilty grab was Australia, a film I was very disappointed in, and planned never to see again unless I stumbled on it while flipping through cable channels. But there it was on half.com, "watched once, brand new" for $5.00. I thought about how very nice "the bucket scene" is, and how it's chock full of beautiful sunsets and rugged Australian landscapes (several that aren't named Hugh Jackman) and I caved. It's really the perfect movie for knitting to, because I can just concentrate on turning my sock heel, and look at the pretty cinematography. My DVD shelf is chock full of such films. Kate and Leopold,
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Siff 09: Review of Spanish serial killer comedy Sexy Killer
14 June 2009 3:25 AM, PDT
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Year: 2008
Directors: Miguel Martí
Writers: Paco Cabezas
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 5.5 out of 10
The Good: An homage to fave American cult, horror and so many other types of films I couldn't even begin to count, an informercial with a price is right section on how to kill, plenty of T&A, and did I mention Zombies? The bad: The bulk of the film (mainly the middle) is poorly written, edited and designed to stitch the flimsy storyline together. You could nap through this part and wouldn't miss much of significance.. but let's get back to the zombies! There's plenty of references to The Evil Dead with groaning and great gore.. and then there's thievery from Scary Movie but it works well. Overall, the film is original in it's approach and will find a niche market but won't achieve cult status. If your a Troma fan, rent
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Five Favourite Films with Renny Harlin
29 May 2009 2:42 AM, PDT
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Finnish director Renny Harlin has one of the most schizophrenic CVs in movie-dom. He's directed some of the most beloved action films of the last 20 years, including Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea, The Long Kiss Goodnight and, of course, Cliffhanger. His latest, the faintly-ridiculous but always-enjoyable 12 Rounds continues this tradition. He's also, however, responsible for two of the most reviled movies of recent times -- for notorious flop Cutthroat Island and for taking a hatchet to Paul Schrader's The Exorcist: The Beginning. For someone with such a varied back catalogue, we had no idea what his five
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Cinematical Seven: Most Awesomest Movie Moms
9 May 2009 7:02 PM, PDT
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Mother's Day is bittersweet for me because my own mother passed away 11 years ago. In recent times, though, the sweet far outweighs the bitter, because I have wonderful memories of our time together watching -- and loving -- movies. When I'd come home from school in the afternoon, we'd talk and watch old movies on a tiny, black and white TV. When everyone else in my family thought I was crazy for waiting in line for hours to see Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she told me about waiting in line for hours as a young teen to see Gone With the Wind. When she was dying of cancer and I visited for a couple of weeks from out of state, we spent hours watching old movies together.
In honor of all of our mothers, I've compiled a list of seven of the most awesomest movie moms.
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- Peter Martin
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Scenes We Love: The Long Kiss Goodnight
26 March 2009 2:02 PM, PDT
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With Renny Harlin's 12 Rounds opening this Friday, you might hear a little more about Harlin's plans for a sequel to The Long Kiss Goodnight. Earlier this month, he told Moviehole that all plans were on the back burner, but that he had a script ready and waiting should the oppertunity arise. Naturally, it would be a Samuel L. Jackson vehicle, as 95% of all movies being made today are.
I can't stand the idea of a sequel -- namely because no script Harlin penned would ever be as good one by Shane Black, but also because the movie was about an amnesiac assassin named Charlie Baltimore. The charm of the movie is that her psychotic nature is buried within a happy-go-lucky mom who enjoys baking muffins and wearing ugly Christmas sweaters. Making a sequel that centers on her sidekick (even if her sidekick was Jackson) is just a little insulting.
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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New Images From John Cena’s 12 Rounds
17 March 2009 7:50 PM, PDT
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I don’t know why anyone would mess with John Cena. I mean, for God’s sake, the guy’s neck is bigger than my friggin thigh. And my thighs are friggin big. (I need to work out.) Here are the latest images from Cena’s upcoming action-thriller “12 Rounds”, in which Cena plays a cop who has to out muscle a smart bad guy who wants to play games ala “Speed” or “Dirty Harry”. Much running and shouting into phones ensue.
Detective Danny Fisher (Cena) discovers his girlfriend (Scott) has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Baxter’s past, and he’ll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.
Starring John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian J. White, Gonzalo Menendez, Taylor Cole, and directed by Renny Harlin. You remember Renny, don’t you? “Cliffhanger”? “The Long Kiss Goodnight”? Once married to Geena Davis?
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Jackson And Harlin Keen To Kiss Again
17 March 2009 12:10 AM, PDT
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Samuel L. Jackson and Renny Harlin are in talks to revisit their 1996 action movie The Long Kiss Goodnight without the director's former leading lady and ex-wife Geena Davis.
Jackson has been quietly developing the project with Harlin for the past two years, and now the moviemaker reveals he has a storyline for a sequel, which would revolve around the Pulp Fiction star's character, Mitch Henessey.
The Finnish filmmaker tells MovieHole.net, "I do have a storyline for it that I worked out and I know exactly what would happen and I think it would be fantastic.
"I can reveal as much as saying it would be Sam Jackson crossing paths with Geena Davis' daughter from the first movie, who, in the first movie was about six years old, and who would now be about 19 or 20."
Harlin insists he is very interested in making the sequel - because The Long Kiss Goodnight is his favourite film experience.
He adds, "It’s a movie that had a really good screenplay, which meant that I was able to get really good actors... When you have characters that are complex and you have good drama, and some humour and some good action, you kind of have all the ingredients... It was a great experience.''
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Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT
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When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These
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- Matt Medlock
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