Posts Tagged ‘AntoineFuqua’
Film
The Magnificent Seven
This lifeless remake of the classic 1960 western plays dangerously fast and loose with the meaning of the word ‘magnificent’. Forgettable is more like it. It’s a nothing film, director Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw)...
DVD And Blu-ray
Southpaw
Based on the publicity photos alone the last person you’d ever want to step into a boxing ring with would be Southpaw’s star Jake Gyllenhaal. He’s by no means the first actor to go through a physical transformation for a role b...
Film
Southpaw
For a long time Southpaw was developed to be rapper Eminem’s follow-up role from 8 Mile. Writer Kurt Sutter wanted to use the boxing metaphor for Eminem’s own struggles to get his life back on track. But with the music industry...
News
Ethan Hawke Recruited To The Magnificent Seven
Hot off the heels of his success in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood it seems Ethan Hawke has been recruited by his old Training Day muckers to join The Magnificent Seven remake. Denzel Washington, who won an Oscar for his ro...
News
Could Chris Pratt Join The Magnificent Seven?
It’s been a hell of a year for the former Parks & Rec star Chris Pratt. First he leant his vocal talents to The Lego Movie then he was the star of hugely successful The Guardians Of The Galaxy, had us gawping in the f...
Film
The Equalizer
If you’d never seen a movie before, you’d be forgiven for thinking The Equalizer is a stylish action thriller with a bit of weight at its core. But you have seen movies before and, more particularly, you’ve seen this movi...
DVD And Blu-ray
Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen is everything you might expect from a film that stars Gerard Butler single-handedly defending the White House against a small army of terrorists; there’s gratuitous violence, cringe-inducing amounts of cheese...
Competitions
Olympus Has Fallen
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN On Blu-ray and DVD from 26th August, 2013 Hollywood hard man; Gerard Butler (300, Law Abiding Citizen) slams into action as Mike Banning, a former Presidential guard, who must use his inside knowledge to prev...
