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The SCARFACE Remake: Coen Brothers to Work The Script, And Which Directors Are Frontrunners?
A couple bits of news have come out today about Universal's go at a reboot of Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma's 1983 film, Scarface. The plan is to move the setting of the story from Miami to Los Angeles...
Critical Distance: PATRIOTS DAY, How to Rewrite History
Recently released wide across the U.S., Patriots Day continues the cinematic tradition of rewriting history for fun and profits. The movie revisits the April 2013 bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. that killed three people and injured more than 260. It...
PATRIOTS DAY Is Exploitative Hollywood at Its Worst
Out nationwide on January 13 (New York and LA on December 21) Patriots Day is the first big-screen adaptation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings carried out by the Tsarnaev brothers. Directed by Peter Berg and staring Mark Wahlberg (the...
Review: DEEPWATER HORIZON, Heroes At the Mouth of Hell
Six years ago, nightmare images of an oil rig burning at night in the Gulf Coast seared themselves into memory. The fire raged high and furious against a pitch-black landscape, leaving one to wonder just what had happened ... and...
MILE 22: Ronda Rousey And Iko Uwais In Peter Berg's Action Film
There you were on Saturday night and you hardly had time to blink before MMA fighter and rising action star Ronda Rousey retained her bantamweight title. And it got you thinking, "Heck. I wonder what I have to do to...
Review: LONE SURVIVOR Offers An Intense, Visceral Depiction Of The War Experience
Samuel Fuller, who directed some of the best war movies ever made, and who was a combat veteran himself, famously stated, "To make a real war movie would be to fire at the audience from behind a screen." Peter Berg's...
For Your Consideration: BATTLESHIP for Best Picture of 2012
We live in a time when winking, snarky, sardonic Cinema has become the norm, when things like subtext and subterfuge gloss over what are more often than not simply action movies gone wrong. We've seen pixels fighting pixels, groups...
