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Review: THE DOORMAN, Woefully Inept, Profoundly Uninspired

Ruby Rose, Jean Reno, Aksel Hennie and Rupert Evans star in an action picture directed by Kitamura Ryuhei.

THE DOORMAN Trailer: Ruby Rose Will Take Jean Reno to Hell, If Needed

In a premise that reminds me (favorably) of Under Siege, Ruby Rose stars in The Doorman as an ex-Marine who has returned to the U.S. and takes a job as a doorman at a posh hotel. Perhaps suffering from PTSD,...

ANTIGANG: Jean Reno Anchors New French Action Comedy. Watch The Trailer!

Throughout his long career, iconic French star Jean Reno's films have tended to fall into one of two camps. On the one side - the side that tends to export the most and be most seen by foreign audiences -...

The Many Faces of Toni Collette

This week, Hector and the Search for Happiness gets its wide release, and that is as good a reason as any to turn the spotlight on one of its stars: Toni Collette. While she has played plenty of pretty (or...

Toronto 2014 Review: HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, Cluelessly Earnest

The patron saint of smashing entitlement into smithereens, Louis C.K., has a great bit about being Caucasian. The gist of it is that he can hop in a time machine and go back in history, and there will be a...

Review: LE CHEF Serves Up French Comfort Food

Served up by the smiling Jean Reno and the persnickety Michael Youn, Le Chef (originally, Comme un chef) is French comfort food in the traditional sense. It may not be particularly good for you, nutrition-wise, but it sure is tasty....

Simon Pegg Chases "A-Penis" In First Trailer For HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

Simon Pegg is back with his special brand of happiness, this time as a psychiatrist in the throes of professional existential crisis, who sets out to taste the world for himself and learn just what it is that makes people...

Review: ALEX CROSS Solves Crimes by Annoying People to Death

Poor Detroit. Where is RoboCop when you need him? Until the mechanical police officer appears again, you're stuck with Tyler Perry as Detective Dr. Alex Cross, a half-human, half-mechanical law enforcement investigator who's more interested in exacting revenge than in...

A Moving Trailer For LA RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP)

From writer-director Rose Bosch comes LA RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP), a film that tells the story of the 1942 'Vel' d'Hiv Roundup'. Its main cast includes Jean Reno (LEON THE PROFESSIONAL, THE DA VINCI CODE) as a Jewish doctor, and...