Posts Tagged ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
Film Review – Extraction
Haven’t we seen something like this before? If Extraction (2020) were recast with Gerard Butler, it could have easily fit into the Olympus Has Fallen (2013)/London Has Fallen (2016)/Angel Has Fallen (2019) action series. As it were, we have Chris Hemsworth taking center stage with…
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Film Review – Angel Has Fallen
Every once and awhile, a little junk food cinema is good for the soul. Sure, there’s plenty of space for hard hitting examinations of society, delving deep into the complexities of life through mature writing, exquisite acting, and pitch perfect directing. Other times, it’s just…
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Film Review – Skyscraper
Duct tape plays a prominent role throughout Skyscraper (2018). When Dwayne Johnson’s character suffers a brutal gash from shrapnel, he closes the wound off by wrapping it in tape. When he has to scale the side of a three thousand foot tall building, he wraps…
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Film Review – London Has Fallen
There’s a moment early into the action in London Has Fallen where the film’s hero Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) executes a bad guy in an isolated situation. President of the United States, Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) is watching Banning as he does this and responds with…
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Film Review – Southpaw
One last fight… One final chance to redeem himself… The need to battle inner demons in the ring… A brutal test of stamina to see if he can go the distance…All of these boxing cliches and more are very present in the new sports drama…
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SXSW Interview – Radha Mitchell – Gus
Spencer interviews actress Radha Mitchell from the drama Gus at SXSW 2013. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes and YouTube. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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Film Review – Olympus Has Fallen
At this point, Gerard Butler has carved himself a career that falls into two categories: the romantic comedy or the action spectacle. If he’s not in one, he’s in the other. Scrub, rinse, dry, repeat. This time, we see him, guns blazing, in Antoine Fuqua’s…
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