Let’s lay it out: what makes a good action movie? (a.) a team that can be introduced in a few quick brush-strokes, but still seem solidly believable; (b.) a hero who manages to be both an everyman and extra-ordinary; (c.) chara...
It’s not easy being typecast. You rock up for the audition, super keen to play an emotionally challenged romantic lead in what is promised to be the biggest hit of the year, but all the casting director sees is your genre-re-de...
It’s fair to assume that as a child, while other boys his age were out playing baseball and trying to score with the chicks, Shane Black was hiding in a basement somewhere pouring over Raymond Chandler novels. Because the forme...
Shane Black possesses some pretty serious cinema credentials. He wrote Lethal Weapon, which must rank as one of the best action films ever made and spawned a long-running but sadly qualitatively diminishing franchise (he only r...
THE NICE GUYS will be released across the UK by Icon Film Distribution 3rd June 2016.
Not long ago it was reported that Iron Man 3 director Shane Black was putting together a project with the hope of luring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe to star. That project is presumably on the backburner with news that Shane ...
Iron Man 3 put Shane Black back on the Hollywood radar but he’s never been far from his Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang cops and robbers roots. Now comes news that after the success of Iron Man 3 he’s resurrecting an old ...
A glance at any Iron Man 3 poster will reveal the badge of honour that proudly states: “From The Studio That Brought You Avengers Assemble”. Given that film’s record-breaking box office haul it’s clearly worth shouting about. ...
UPDATE: Having put together a short list of who was going to direct the next Bond movie it now seems that those on it may have got their hopes up for nothing. Like an easily despatched group of henchmen, it seems the man to b...