Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Today we have the poster and trailer to Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen staring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant.
This painting of Sly Stallone as Cobra is just too cool not to share. Click on the art above to see a larger version. Sadly, I don’t know the artist’s name, but if I learn who he/she is, I’ll be sure to post it.
Source: Sergio Pinto in Sylvester Stallone Official Fans Group.
It’s become a tradition around this time of year for Mark Evanier to post what he calls My Xmas Story.
ME has been blogging for nearly 20 years, with over 25,000 posts and My Xmas Story is his site’s most popular. As you’ve probably guessed, it features the gent in the photo above. For our younger readers, that gent is Mel Torme. I invite each of you (young and old) to click over to Evanier’s post and enjoy.
Check out Arnold Schwarzenegger in this DeepFake trailer to Dirty Harry! The technology is improving so quickly that soon we’ll see dead actors/actresses making a comeback.
Some folks are against putting deceased stars in ads or movies, but I like the idea if the heirs are okay with it. Who’d have thought we may someday see new movies with Marlon Brando, Bruce Lee, Humphrey Bogart or Lon Chaney?
Disturbing the Peace staring Guy Pearce has just made my must-see list. I love the look of the poster and trailer. Yeah, deal me in on January 17, 2020.
6 Underground (2019)
Director: Michael Bay
Screenplay: Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona,Corey Hawkins and Dave Franco.
The Pitch: “Michael Bay wants to make an action movie.”
Tagline: They Say No One Can Save The World. Meet No One.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Ryan Reynolds plays a billionaire who recruits folks with special talents to join his team to right wrongs throughout the world. That’s all you really need to know other than the fact that this mission’s goal is to replace an evil dictator with his democracy-loving brother.
Think a low-budget Mission Impossible movie made with a big budget.
The star of the movie isn’t Ryan Reynolds, it’s the action scenes directed by Michael Bay. The movie starts with a 20 minute car chase where we learn the bare bones plot and who the players are. We’re literally off and running with cars, trucks, motorcycles and parkour.
And that’s the opening.
Before 6 Underground is done we’ll have action on roof tops, in pools, hotel rooms, boats, construction sites, the desert, and museums. Bad guys are wiped out in bunches and I’ve never seen a movie where pedestrians are just as likely to be killed as the bad guy’s henchmen.
There are a lot of car wrecks and we all know the analogy — It was like watching a car wreck, I couldn’t look away. Well, that’s a good analogy for 6 Underground, because the action comes so (pardon the expression) fast and furious, you’ll find yourself watching. The movie never slows long enough to become boring before the next action scene is ramping up. So you keep looking… watching the shoot-outs, car chases and fights until the movie ends.
6 Underground is entertaining in the way a roller-coaster is fun – it moves fast, has a few surprises and doesn’t slow down long enough to bore you. When it’s over, you’ll probably say, it was fun but you’ll be ready to move on to the next ride.
Rating:
I’d be surprised if any regular visitor to this site didn’t recognize the guy on the left. It is, of course, Clint Eastwood. My guess is that a high percentage of folks also know the guy on the right… especially if they look at the art between the two. The hard case on the right is the legendary Frank Frazetta.
Frazetta was commissioned to create the poster for Eastwood’s movie, The Gauntlet. I like the movie and the poster. Love must be in the air, because I’m a fan of both gentlemen as well.
You can see larger versions of both photos as well as a detailed shot of the painting at Frank Frazetta Art.
Wow! This came out of left field. Legendary artist (and one I thought who had retired) Barry Windsor Smith has announced he plans to publish a new graphic novel in 2020!
Monsters is a 250-plus page story about “two disparate American families fatefully connected by an abandoned Nazi project in genetic engineering that has been covertly revived by the U.S. government.”
If this interests you, click over to NEWSaRAMA for full details. I’m looking forward to more info about this one!
VFW, directed by Joe Begos and staring Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove, Sierra McCormick and David Patrick Kelly is like something you’d see at a drive-in back in the day. And you know how much I loved drive-ins.
VFW looks like Assault on Precinct 13 meets The Wild Bunch. That can’t be a bad thing, can it?
Stephen Dorff introduces us to his character, Sheriff Hollister, in Deputy, premiering on January 2, 2020 on FOX.
Stallone fans are going to love this: Eye See You is getting a special edition Blu-ray release from MVD Collector’s Brands. What makes this release especially special is that in addition to the theatrical Eye See You release, the disc will also contain director Jim Gillespie’s cut known as Detox!
From MVD Collector’s Brands’ release (bold text is my doing)…
EYE SEE YOU – Update!
It’s with great pleasure that I am able to report that director Jim Gillespie (the guy that made “I Know What You Did Last Summer”) took time and energy to dig up and locate a copy his original cut of “Eye See You”, known as “Detox” (that’s how it’s spelled on his cut of the film). While I personally have not seen this version yet (it’s being used to author the disc right now), I’m told that it’s a “darker” and more horror-ish in tone (Fincher’s “Seven” was what I think they were going for here) version of the film, which was his original intention before the film was recut, re-titled and changed.
“Detox” is being included on this disc as a bonus feature. It is not in HD. The quality is VHS. It is in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio and had time code under the letterbox (see image for reference). We will be reformatting the image for 16 x 9 which should eliminate most (if not all) of the time code. I don’t know what the audio quality is but given the quality of the video I would say manage your expectations accordingly.
We’ve included all of the previous available bonus features and we’ve also adding a new photo gallery (see list of “final” bonus features below). I have also made the decision to create a LIMITED RUN SLIPCOVER for the first pressing (as you know we really don’t do slips for Marquee titles anymore but I’m making an exception for this one) so if you want to guarantee a slipcover, I would suggest pre-ordering this title. After street it’s hit or miss.
I’m really excited to have produced this new “Special Edition” Blu-ray release of ‘Eye See You”. I’ve always considered this to be an underrated title. In my opinion, it’s the closest thing to a horror movie Sylvester Stallone has ever done (at least up til now) and hopefully this alternative cut will finally give everyone a chance to see what director Jim Gillespie had intended.
STREET DATE = April 14, 2020
You can pre-order using this link.
SURVIVAL IS A KILLER.
A brutal serial killer is targeting cops, and detective Jake Malloy is on the warpath. But now the killer is making it personal, and this dedicated agent is twisted in an emotional nightmare. Time is running out, and so are the options, as Malloy engages in an extreme game of cat-and-mouse with a killer who won’t be stopped.
I’m on board! Who’s with me?
This very cool drawing of James Garner as Maverick was created by the uber talented artist Dan Spiegel. You can see a larger version by clicking on the image above.
Source: @files_garner.
The photos above, of the beautiful young woman and the scary looking hag are sadly the same person. Blanche Monnier was a wealthy aristocratic woman who was reported as dead by her family and then kept prisoner for 25 years. The mystery isn’t why they did this, but who finally tipped off the police.
This is just one of the Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries Involving Celebrities you’ll read about if you check out Jamie Frater’s interesting post at Listverse. Others include:
A woman and young boy are chased through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Battered and exhausted, they protect something highly valuable and extremely dangerous.
THE KID is a 6 minute proof-of-concept short film directed by Nicholas Wenger and starring Ellen Wroe (Animal Kingdom) and Evan Alex (Us). The feature screenplay is currently being written.
I want to see The Kid as a feature film or limited tv mini-series. Wenger has shown he has the writing and directing chops — I hope someone finances his vision. Perfectly cast — keep Wroe and Alex. The Kid needs to be made! Click on the link in the description. You can thank me later! ; )
Gerardo Moreno is back, and this time he’s brought with him a potential sequel to Cobra starring Sylvester Stallone. Not only do I dig the poster but props also to Moreno for his suggested title, Angel of the City: Cobra II.
If you”d like to see more of Gerardo’s art click here!
