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DOGMAN Review: Reality Literally Bites in Luc Besson's Latest Crime Film
On a cinematically rainy night, a truck packed with dogs is pulled over by the cops. The driver is Marilyn Monroe in the famous getup from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The pink, the wig and the makeup ruined by blood. At...
New ANNA: EL PELIGRO TIENE NOMBRE Trailer Owns Its Danger
A new trailer for Luc Besson's Anna: El peligro tiene nombre features new snippets of footage that amps up the action quota nicely. Produced in France and known in the U.S. simply as Anna, the extended title in Spanish means,...
Review: VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS, Lush Visuals And Lackluster Everything Else
In Luc Besson's latest film, the extravagant science-fiction, hypercolor seizure Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, a pair of space cops set off on a devil-may-care adventure to save the universe. Or something like that. Valerian (Dane DeHaan)...
Interview: Matthias Hoene Talks ENTER THE WARRIOR'S GATE
In Enter the Warrior's Gate, a teenager is magically transported to China where he learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior. The film is like The Last Starfighter re-imagined as an epic Chinese...
Hong Kong goes West - When Hong Kong film makers attempt to break the Western market - part 5
2010’s In my previous article there was a comment regarding a film that I had left out. I apologise in advance if there are any films that I miss out. This may be due to me simply forgetting or just...
New York Comic Con 2016: VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS Gets a New Poster and Stills
EuropaCorp has released new images and a poster for Luc Besson's hotly anticipated Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The fresh look comes on the heels of the film's presence at New York Comic Con. Fans in attendance will also...
WARRIOR'S GATE Trailer: Why Aren't We Talking About this Luc Besson Fantasy?
Warrior's Gate is essentially The Last Starfighter re-imagined as an epic Chinese fantasy. In it, a teenager is magically transported to China where he learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior. While that's...
Have Your Say: Falling In Love With An Imaginary Person
Last week, Luc Besson shared some news about his movie adaptation of Valerian, and that took me back to the time I discovered the original French graphic novels from the early seventies. I stumbled upon those a few years after...
Luc Besson Shows Glimpses At VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
French director Luc Besson can be a right royal champion of secrecy at times, with for example his The Fifth Element appearing almost out of nowhere in 1997, despite it being a huge project. However, yesterday Entertainment Weekly published an...
VALERIAN: Ethan Hawke And John Goodman Join Luc Besson's Space Epic
Luc Besson is long overdue to return to sci-fi and it currently rectifying that as he prepares for his $180 million space epic Valerian which begins shooting next month. The main characters of the film, to be played by Dane DeHaan...
Review: THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, Still Out Of Gas
The newest model in the Transporter series is much the same as the previous versions, only with less wit and less cohesive action sequences. Not that the first three films were exactly paradigms of wit and cohesive action. Back in...
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Ed Skrein steps into Jason Statham's very large shoes with the Camille Delamarre helmed series reboot The Transporter Refueled.In the south of France, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin enters into a game of chess with a femme-fatale and her three...
Luc Besson's VALERIAN Sets Clive Owen To Star In $180 Million Sci-Fi Spectacle
Clive Owen will star in Valerian, Luc Besson's adaptation of the French graphic novel series. He will star opposite Dane DeHaan and Cara Delavingne, according to Deadline, which also reports that the movie is budgeted at $180 million. As we reported,...
THE LAKE: J.K. Simmons Joins Luc Besson's Navy SEAL Treasure Film
Deadline is reporting that J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) has joined the cast of Luc Besson's Navy SEALs action thriller The Lake. It will not be a large role for the recent Oscar winner but no one is probably better suited to...
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE's Sullivan Stapleton To Star In Luc Besson's THE LAKE
Luc Besson has found his new action star according to a report over at Deadline. Sullivan Stapleton, the lucky bastard who went a couple rounds, some more exciting than others, with Eva Green in 300: Rise of an Empire has been...
The Many Faces Of Forest Whitaker
This week, Liam Neeson isn't taking it any more, again, in Taken 3. James saw the film and wasn't amused much, but that doesn't take away from the fine actors in it of course. Time for a quiz about Liam,...
Review: TAKEN 3, Action Cinema For Teenage Softies
Liam Neeson's third outing as over-protective family man Bryan Mills sees him on the run for murder after his ex-wife (Famke Janssen) turns up dead in his apartment. Forest Whitaker heads the investigation, which soon enough uncovers the involvement of...
Liam Neeson Will Smash Your Face With "12 Skills Of Christmas" In New TAK3N Trailer
I've covered Liam Neeson's wily antics before, but now I'm really excited. Just in time for Hanukkah and Christmas malaise, Fox has gifted us with the "12 Skills of Christmas." It's Bryan Mills in full glory breaking necks, hacking phones,...
THE TRANSPORTER LEGACY Gets Title, Release Date
While Jason Statham searches for an appropriate action vehicle in China, one of his former franchises drives on without him. The Transporter Legacy, starring Ed Skrein (pictured), will motor into North American theaters on March 6, 2015, according to Variety....
Review: LUCY, Scarlett Johansson Goes Feral, And It's Glorious
Luc Besson's new movie cloaks itself in scientific literacy, but make no mistake: Lucy is a b-movie through and through, a gloriously nutty concoction that would be risible if it ever took itself seriously. Happily, it never does. Featuring an...
