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GLADIATOR II Review: Ridley Scott Returns to Imperial Rome With Mixed Results
After more than two decades in development limbo, countless rejected drafts permanently memory-holed to studio vaults, and near endless studio dawdling, Ridley Scott (Napoleon, Blade Runner, Alien) seemingly inexhaustible even as his 87th birthday quickly approaches, makes a triumphant return...
THE EQUALIZER 3 Review: Denzel Washington Elevates Uneven, Middling Entry
Moments into the inelegantly titled The Equalizer 3, the trilogy capper that reunites director Antoine Fuqua (Emancipation, The Magnificent Seven, Training Day), and screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2), with two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, two men...
Neo-Noir DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Slinks It's Way to Criterion
Los Angeles, 1948. The war is over and we won. That, though, is past. Victory euphoria? Fading, fading quickly. For some, particularly the alienated veterans of classic Film Noir, they’ve survived the fire only to have landed in an altogether different frying pan. What’s the opposite...
Review: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Vanity Is Thy Name
Denzel Washington and Frances MacDorman star in a film directed by Joel Coen, adapted from the works of William Shakespeare.
New York 2021 Review: Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Expectations Not Met
But there have been many famous screen adaptations of the Shakespeare's play before. The first question anyone would naturally ask is, is another adaptation of the famous Scottish play really necessary?
Review: THE LITTLE THINGS, Back to the 90s
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto star in writer/director John Lee Hancock's murder mystery.
Review: THE EQUALIZER 2 Fails to Equal the Original Film
Wrested away from the hazy hallowed (now hollow) halls of 1980’s television memory, and reimagined for the big screen by filmmaker Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Magnificent Seven) and superstar Denzel Washington, The Equalizer saga continues to unfold in this...
Review: FENCES Delivers a Knockout Punch to the Soul
Smartly adapted for the big screen, Fences is something of a revelation for moviegoers. August Wilson's stage play, the third in his so-called "Pittsburgh" cycle about the African American experience in America during the 20th century, was first produced on...
Gamera Obscura: How THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Improves on SEVEN SAMURAI
Neither the first nor, surely, the last person to argue how Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven remake changes everything by changing the core story to one of revenge, I’ll strive to be original by contending that “everything,” in this case,...
Review: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Shoots for Remake Glory
When you put the word “magnificent” in the title of your movie, you’d really better be able to live up to it. Except, in the case of director Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, the very title's been done before. For...
Second MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Trailer Arrives And - Again - Is Way Better Than Expected
Okay, Antoine Fuqua, you got me. You can have my money. And probably my kid's money, too, which is also my money. Because as promised by the first teaser, this new trailer for The Magnificent Seven just looks like way...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Trailer Delivers Exactly As Expected
So, when word broke that Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt were set to star in a remake of The Magnificent Seven directed by Antoine Fuqua quite a lot of people undoubdetly had a picture in their minds of exactly what...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Our First Look At Washington, Pratt and Co.
USA Today has our first look at Antoine Fuqua's remake of The Magnificent Seven. You got your Denzel Washington going Full-Yul, all in black. As a fellow Man of the Beard I’m liking D’Onofrio’s look. And the film has added...
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Peter Sarsgaard In Talks To Take Villainous Lead
Variety is reporting that Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to take on the role of villain in Antonie Fuqua's interpretation of The Magnificent Seven. Sarsgaard will be joining Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Nofrio, Haley Bennett and Luke Grimes...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Ethan Hawke Is In Talks To Join Antoine Fuqua's Western
Predestination and Boyhood's Ethan Hawke is in talks to re-team with his Training Day partner, Denzel Washington, in Antoine Fuqua's interpretation of The Magnificent Seven, according to a report at Variety. Chris Pratt and Haley Bennett are already attached to the project. ...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Haley Bennett Takes Lead Female Role
Deadline reported yesterday that Haley Bennett has landed the lead female role and reunite with The Equalizer's Antoine Fuqua and his go at The Magnificent Seven. She joins Denzel Washinton and Chris Pratt.In the pic, a town is taken over by...
Destroy All Monsters: Expendable Equalizers Walk Among Tombstones
Is Hollywood's fascination with the older male asskicker a new thing? Its resurgence certainly seems to be. I know there were Death Wish sequels in the '80s; and before that, I know John Wayne kept shooting at people long past...
The Many Faces Of Denzel Washington
This week, The Equalizer premieres all over the world, confidently starring Denzel Washington as the friendly protagonist who kicks ass like no other (when called for). Confidence can be a seductive thing, and Denzel Washington exudes it so easily that...
Toronto 2014 Review: THE EQUALIZER, A Quietly-Assured Thriller For The Masses
Cool and slick -- no, no, let's make that uber-cool and uber-slick -- while also being uber-warm -- yet wistful, kind to strangers and hostile to unrepentant criminals who ignore "stop that, please," Robert McCall is a superhero for the...
Denzel Washington And Antoine Fuqua In Talks For MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Remake
Word from the land of remakes, and Variety, is that Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua are the latest talent to have received offers from MGM to take the reins on their remake of The Magnificent Seven. Washington and Fuqua have already...
