Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Jerry Gaylord aka The Franchize returns with his take on Sly from Lords of Flatbush. This may be his best Stallone sketch yet, and they’ve all been winners!
I highly recommend Jerry to all sketch collectors. He quickly responds to e-mails, his turnaround time is fast and he packages the art to ensure it arrives safely.
To check out more of Jerry’s art, head here. – Craig
Recently Vic’s Movie Den posted On the Set – Director George Romero. The piece contains a bunch of behind the scenes photos and video of, you guessed it, George Romero (and others) on the set of Romero’s movies. It’s well worth a look for all Romero, and zombie fans.
When I recently wrote about the passing of James Garner it got me to thinking about when he played Phillip Marlowe and had a couple of scenes with Bruce Lee.
I haven’t had time to go back and watch Marlowe, but I did get a chance to enjoy the trailer. Hope you do as well.
I’m not sure who Six Ice Cubes is, but he/she sure makes some amazing custom figures! Check out his Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch from Predator and more at the link.
Thanks to Didier for the heads-up. – Craig
Empire Magazine asked Frank Grillo, the star of The Purge: Anarchy to pick his Ten Toughest Hollywood Tough Guys.
I love Grillo’s picks and the rationale for them. Here’s a taste:
Jimmy Cagney: …Jimmy Cagney was tiny – the size of my wife. But when you think about Jimmy Cagney, he owned it. It’s one thing to be The Rock and the biggest guy on the planet and knock people around, but to be Jimmy Cagney and have people believe that you are that guy? That’s a task…
Tom Hardy: …Tommy, like Cagney, has got this inner rage and this believability about him…
Tom Laughlin: … Tom Laughlin who played this (Navajo and ex-Green Beret) character was a small guy, but he just took care of business…
Lee Marvin: …To me, he might be the guy. I love The Dirty Dozen. He’s not quintessentially handsome, he’s tall but he’s lanky, but you want to be that guy… The Lee Marvins, the guys who fought in World War II or Korea and became actors, they’re men…
Charles Bronson: …I love Charles Bronson. He didn’t have a lot of range and he wasn’t a great actor, but you couldn’t take your eyes off him… He’s not likeable and he doesn’t apologise. I’m attracted to that because I’ve been raised in a movie world where men have become emasculated…
Steve McQueen: …He’s one of my favourite actors. Again, not a great actor – in fact, maybe not even a good actor – but when he’s on screen you don’t take your eyes off the guy…
Jason Statham: …Who’s the toughest guy I’ve worked with? Statham. He’s a great athlete; a great drinker. He’s not a big guy – he’s smaller than me – but he’s physically imposing…
Clint Eastwood: …Clint Eastwood is in a category all by himself…
Kurt Russell: …Snake Plissken and John Carpenter…
Sylvester Stallone: …I gotta throw in Stallone – he’s been a badass for a long time…
I suppose Bruce Lee didn’t make the list because he wasn’t considered Hollywood?
Alex Maidy over at JoBlo.com recently posted his choices for the Top Ten Roles Dwayne Johnson Was Born to Play.
I agree with: Samson, Predator, Lobo, Conan, Terminator (do we see an Arnold pattern forming?), and Shazam,
I disagree with: Transformers (of course I am not a Transformers fan), Venom (again, not a fan), Flash Gordon (I’m on the fence on this character but leaning towards, “no”) and He-Man (again on the fence and pointing to “no”).
The role I’d really like to see Dwayne Johnson take on? The “black market mercenary” in Cuidad.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Sly as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo from Death Race 2000 with him! Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Robert Rodriguez tweeted this sweet character poster of Frank Miller for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
Miller is, of course, the creator/writer/artist of the original Sin City yarns and co-director with Robert Rodriguez of the two Sin City movies.
I think it’s cool that Miller received his own poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Outside of Hitchcock, I can’t think of many other directors who weren’t also acting in the films represented to get the honor.
It’s not that unusual to learn that co-stars of movies and tv sometimes don’t get along. It is surprising though when the co-stars seem to like each other and have on-screen chemistry.
TopTenz posted 10 Sets of Co-Stars You Didn’t Realize Hated Each Other.
The list has a few surprises [Richard Dreyfuess & Robert Shaw, Steve McQueen & Yul Brenner] and several that everyone probably knows about [Bea Arthur & Betty White, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson, Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep, William Shatner & George Takei, Bill Murray & Lucy Liu].
I was surprised that Bruce Willis & Cybill Sheppard and Vivian Vance & William Frawley didn’t make the list!
James Garner, star of movies and tv, was found dead in his Los Angeles home yesterday. Mr. Garner was 86.
If you are a child of the 50’s then James Garner is probably best known to you for the role of Brett Maverick [the role that launched him to stardom] in the series Maverick. Garner played a new kind of hero, one that preferred to use his wits rather than his guns or fists to get him out of trouble.
If you grew up in the 60’s then you probably know James Garner the movie star. Movies like The Great Escape, The Americanization of Emily, Duel at Diablo, Support Your Local Sheriff, and Marlowe all come to mind.
The 70’s saw a combination of movies and tv. The early 70’s included the movies Support Your Local Gunfighter, and Skin Game as well as the short-lived tv series Nichols. Then in 1974, James Garner’s other cornerstone character, Jim Rockford began appearing when the Rockford Files premiered (which ran until 1980).
James Garner went on to star in many more movies [Victor/Victoria, Murphy’s Romance, Space Cowboys, and The Notebook are just a few], but time and time again he would return to Brett Maverick [tv series and movies] and Jim Rockford [tv movies].
My favorite James Garner roles include the two Support Your Local… movies, Marlowe [Bruce Lee appears and Garner plays Phillip Marlowe!], Nichols [watched and enjoyed the series as a kid and would love to see how it holds up] and of course Jim Rockford.
Many actors are called legendary. James Garner embodied what it takes to get that designation. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.
Entertainment Weekly recently posted “The Terminator” at 30: An Oral History.
It’s interesting to hear behind the scenes stories from James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Mike Medavoy and others. If you’re a Terminator fan, you’ll want to check it out.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Sly as Robert Rath from Assassins with him! Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
IFC recently posted 15 Things You May Not Know About Lock Up. Although the majority of readers here will know most, there may be a few surprises. Here are two that I didn’t know or had forgotten…
11. Frank McRae Had NFL History
McRae was a solid choice for the football scene – he’d actually spent a short stint as an NFL defensive tackle, playing six games for the Chicago Bears during the 1967 season.
12. Danny Trejo Is in the Movie
Danny Trejo makes an appearance as one of the gang members led by the character Chink Weber (played by actor Sonny Landham).
You know how on some days you really feel like listening to some music by The Monkees and –
What’s that? You don’t? Ok… let me rephrase that.
You know how on some days I really feel like listening to some music by The Monkees? Well, today is one of those days.
Thanks to Do You Remember, we can listen to The Monkees 7 Greatest Hits.
The trailer for Reach Me is here!
