Kickboxer: Vengeance came out in September and rebooted the Kickboxer franchise. It was a great idea to have Van Damme play the trainer to a new young hotshot. Alain Moussi has the moves to be the new Kickboxer. He has the moves to be an action star in his own rite but Kickboxer: Vengeance was […]
Toby Kebbell and Pilou Asbaek play pivotal characters in Ben-Hur. Kebbell plays Messala Severus, the childhood friend of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) who ultimately chooses Rome over Judah. Asbaek plays Roman leader Pontius Pilate. We sat in a roundtable with Kebbell and Asbaek to discuss the making of the film. Kebbell took us through the […]
Director Timur Bekmambetov has reinvented the biblical classic Ben-Hur for a new generation. Jack Huston stars as Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who is betrayed and enslaved by his brotherly friend Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell). Judah escapes a slave ship and learns to race chariots, for a final race against Messala for his freedom. We […]
This is why I love movies. A crew of thousands spent a year prepping and filming these stunts. A few professionals trained for decades to be able to accomplish them, all to put on a show for me for two hours. The fact that it’s still Point Break makes it both relevant and nostalgic. It’s […]
I’ve been so excited to see Luke Bracey in Point Break that even a year ago, when I was writing about The November Man, I accidentally typed Luke Break. I corrected it before I published but my subconscious was telling me something. So I was excited to finally get a chance to talk to Bracey […]
During a press conference for Point Break, in which he plays Bodhi, Edgar Ramirez shared a deep philosophy about what both Point Break movies mean. “The promise of accumulation and being successful financially and accumulating material goods is the promise that Reaganism left us,” Ramirez said. “25 years later, it got broken. Our movie pretty […]
Point Break promises even more extreme action than the movie it is based on, by including extreme sports that didn’t exist yet in 1991. As a cinematographer, Ericson Core has shot extreme movies before like The Fast and the Furious and Payback. As a director, Point Break is only Core’s second movie after Invincible. I […]
I did not see the 2009 Spanish language film El Secreto de Sus Ojos. I went into the American Secret in Their Eyes fresh and I would have assumed I was watching a literal English translation re-enactment of the film. I couldn’t imagine anything would be done differently until people started telling me there were […]
This one’s for the ladies! The newest Ghostbusters will be a reboot using female characters. There has been a lot of speculation on who was going to play the female versions of Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddmore and we’ve got the names right here! While we aren’t sure of […]