“Hustle Down” – The Trailer is Here!
I like the poster and trailer for Hustle Down well enough to check out the film when it comes to one of my streaming services.
Category: Crime
“Attica” – The Trailer is Here!
The Attica prison riot/takeover lasted for 4 days beginning on September 9, 1971. Over 1,000 of the 2,000 prisoners rioted and took over the prison. When the siege ended 43 people were dead (10 correctional officers and 33 inmates). I was 12 years old at the time and remember being shocked at how long the takeover lasted. I’d be interested in seeing this Attica documentary.
Attica details the five-day prison rebellion that transpired in the fall of 1971 in upstate New York and still stands as the largest and deadliest the country has ever witnessed. More than a simple recounting of the five days of rebellion, ATTICA will also offer a broader understanding of the Attica tragedy in the crosscurrents of politics, race, power and punishment during the early 1970s. Through expert voices and archival images of urban and suburban life, the film explores the tensions between a young, radicalized population of mostly Black and Latino inmates, and correctional officers from a predominately white company town, where the Attica prison was the primary employer for generations of families. ATTICA examines inmates’ demands for recognition of their humanity at the culmination of a moment where racial justice activists embraced prisoner rights as an extension of their fight for civil rights. Premieres November 6 only on SHOWTIME.
“Dashcam” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
The Dashcam poster isn’t bad but I do like the trailer better. The idea of accidentally being sent something you didn’t ask for but could get you killed for seeing… that’s an interesting (and scary) concept.
HOLE by Gerry Brown with Eduardo Risso – A Novella of Crime and Mayhem!
Hole by Gerry Brown with illustrations by Eduardo Risso is something that I’ve got to get my hands on! Hole is a crime novella. The fact that it has art by Risso is what got me first interested Then I read the synopsis…
It was the perfect shakedown.
Moundsville State Prison was rotten to the core. The guards were almost as crooked as the cons. Gangs ruled the jail, and Davie Ingram ruled the gangs.
The way it worked was Davie and his boys would isolate an inmate with no one to back him up. Hurt him, hurt him bad, on camera. Then send the video to the inmate’s loved ones.
They wouldn’t ask for much. Five, maybe ten thousand.
The first time.
Because if you didn’t want your son, your nephew, your brother to play punching bag for the meanest motherfuckers in Moundsville, you had to pay again and again and again.
But this time Davie’s crew picked the wrong man to shake down.
He’s a man who won’t take kindly to seeing a video of his brother being stomped by half a dozen vicious goons. A man who’s a professional in the art of making people pay. Not with money, but with blood.
A man named…HOLE.
I’d be interested in the novella based on just the synopsis, but the fact that Risso did illustrations has me sold!
You can see some of Risso’s art for the story here.
Risso also did a brief interview about Hole with Joe Gruenwald at ComicsBeat.
It looks like Hole is only available on Kindle and you can order a copy here.
“Ozark”: Season 4 | Official First Look Teaser is Here!
Wow. It has been a long wait, but the final season of Ozark is almost here. Here’s a teaser to hold us over.
The Byrdes are back and the stakes have never been higher.
“Vengeance is Mine” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
I like the poster for Vengeance is Mine. It’s also interesting that Harry’s wife and child were accidentally killed by murdering thieves making a getaway. Deal me in.
Harry is a broken man, struggling to come to terms with the murder of his wife and daughter 5 years previously. When he discovers the whereabouts of the killers he awakens from his grief and, filled with vengeance, seeks to destroy those who destroyed his life.
Directed by Hadi Hajaig
Starring Con O’Neill, Sarah Jane Potts, Anton Saunders
“Ida Red” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
Look at the cast for Ida Red: Josh Hartnett, William Forsythe, Mark Boone Junior, Frank Grillo and Melissa Leo. Read the synopsis, view the trailer and if you’re a crime movie fan, get in line for a ticket (right behind me).
Crime boss Ida “Red” Walker (Oscar® winner Melissa Leo*) turns to her son, Wyatt (Josh Hartnett), to pull off one last heist to get out of prison. But with the FBI closing in, Wyatt must choose between family and freedom in this high-octane thriller.
Featuring: Josh Hartnett, Sofia Hublitz, William Forsythe, Deborah Ann Woll, George Carroll, Mark Boone Junior, Beau Knapp, with Frank Grillo, Melissa Leo
Quentin Tarantino Talks “True Romance”
True Romance doesn’t get enough love. Tarantino’s script. Directed by Tony Scott. And look at that cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, Saul Rubinek, Conchata Ferrell, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn and Tom Sizemore!!!
Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects posted 30 Things We Learned from Quentin Tarantino’s ‘True Romance’ Commentary. Before you click over, here are three of my favorites and some thoughts on each…
It wasn’t specified in the script that Elvis (Val Kilmer) would never really be seen all that clearly, and he was worried that the actor would be upset by Scott’s choice. He heard later that Kilmer loved it. (This was an interesting choice that many actor’s wouldn’t have liked. Credit to Val Kilmer for seeing the merit in playing it that way. – Craig)
He (Tarantino) is a huge fan of Scott’s Revenge (1990) which is the correct response to that film. (I am a huge fan of Revenge. It is probably Tony Scott and Kevin Costner’s most underrated film. – Craig)
He credits Scott with doing what a director should with the adaptation and make it their own. Clarence dying in the script makes sense to Tarantino, but Scott’s film is far more successful as a fairy tale of sorts meaning Clarence needed to live. “If I had made the movie he would have died. It would have been the same script but it would have been different. And in mine I think it would have worked. But in his, no, in his I think he was right.” (In Scott’s film Clarence lives, in Tarantino’s script Clarence dies. Both endings could work, but I’m glad Tony Scott stuck to his guns. Like him, I wanted to see them get away. – Craig)
“The Cleaner” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!
Here we have the poster and trailer for The Cleaner. The poster is okay, but the trailer works. I also like the casting for The Trailer. I don’t really know the star, King Orba, but look at his list of co-stars: Luke Wilson, Linda Carter, Shelley Long, Eden Brolin, M.C. Gainey, Punky Brewster herself, Soleil Moon Frye.
I’m in.
When a middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another twist of fate becomes an accomplice to a violent crime. Available October 12.
Directed By Erin Elders
STARRING: King Orba, Luke Wilson, Lynda Carter, Shelley Long, Eden Brolin, Shiloh Fernandez
“Every Last One of Them” Starring Paul Sloan with Michael Madsen and Richard Dreyfuss – The Trailer is Here!
Every Last One of Them has second feature at a drive-in movie written all over it. I’m looking forward to seeing it! Starring Paul Sloan with Michael Madsen and Richard Dreyfuss, Every Last One of Them is a throwback low budget action film. Count me in.
Paul Sloan stars as a man looking for his missing daughter, but his search uncovers a larger conspiracy involving a Chinatown-Esque Big Capitalism deal over water rights. Things begin to spiral out of control, leading to high-stakes shootouts and other masculine antics that genre fans can’t help but eat right up!
“The Many Saints of Newark” – A New Poster and Trailer are Here!
The new poster and trailer for The Many Saints of Newark is fire. Check out the amazing cast and equally amazing behind the camera talent they’ve lined up for this film. October 1st can’t get her fast enough.
New Line Cinema’s “The Many Saints of Newark” is the much-anticipated feature film prequel to David Chase’s groundbreaking, award-winning HBO drama series “The Sopranos.”
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano.
“The Many Saints of Newark” stars Alessandro Nivola (“Disobedience,” “American Hustle”), Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Broadway’s “Hamilton,” “Murder on the Orient Express”), Jon Bernthal (“Baby Driver,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”), Corey Stoll (“First Man,” “Ant-Man”), Michael Gandolfini (TV’s “The Deuce”), Billy Magnussen (“Game Night,” “The Big Short”), Michela De Rossi (“Boys Cry,” TV’s “The Rats”), John Magaro (“The Finest Hours,” “Not Fade Away”), with Emmy winner Ray Liotta (TV’s “Shades of Blue,” “Goodfellas”) and Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air,” “The Conjuring” films).
Alan Taylor (“Thor: The Dark World”), who won an Emmy for his directing work on “The Sopranos,” is helming the film from a screenplay by series creator David Chase & Lawrence Konner, based on characters created by Chase. Chase, Konner and Nicole Lambert are producing the film, with Michael Disco, Marcus Viscidi, Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener serving as executive producers.
Taylor’s behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Kramer Morgenthau (“Creed II,” “Thor: The Dark World”), production designer Bob Shaw (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Sopranos”), Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen (“Moneyball,” “A Quiet Place”) and costume designer Amy Westcott (“The Wrestler,” “Black Swan”).
“The Many Saints of Newark” was shot on location in New Jersey and New York, and several beloved characters from the original series that inspired the film are featured in the movie. During its six-season run, “The Sopranos”—widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential television drama series of all time—was honored with 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Peabody Awards, to name only a portion.
New Line Cinema Presents, In Association with Home Box Office, a Chase Films Production, “The Many Saints of Newark.” The film is slated for release in theaters nationwide on October 1, 2021 and will be available in the U.S. on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. It is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and has been rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.
“South of Heaven” – The Poster and Trailer are Here for this Good Looking Crime Flick!
South of Heaven got my hopes up with the clever poster. I’ll admit I was surprised to see Jason Sudeikis as the lead of a straight up crime movie. From what I’ve seen he’s going to be fine. It’s great seeing Evangeline Lilly back on-screen. I didn’t recognize her at first! Shea Whigham looks to be perfectly suited to play the crooked parole officer.
In case you didn’t guess by now, I’m sold. I’ll be heading to South of Heaven.
Starring Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly, Shea Whigham and Mike Colter
Directed by Arahon KeshalesConvicted felon Jimmy (Jason Sudeikis) gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release he vows to give his girlfriend Annie (Evangeline Lilly), who is dying of cancer, the best last year of her life. But things are never that simple, and when he is given a “side job” from his parole officer (Shea Whigham), it sets off a series of events that leaves Jimmy in the crosshairs of a local crime boss (Mike Colter). Now, he must stop at nothing to save Annie and fight for whatever time they have left.
“The Guilty” Trailer is Here! Fuqua, Pizzolatto, Gyllenhaal & Hawke!
The Guilty poster isn’t bad but the trailer has ,me hooked. Directed by Antoine Fuqua who helmed Training Day, and The Equalizer with a screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto the writer behind True Detective — these guys are made for this genre. Jake Gyllenhaal and Ethan Hawke co-star.
Deal me in. October 1st on Netflix!
The Guilty takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Bayler (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger—but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.
“Red Notice” – Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot & Ryan Reynolds – The Trailer is Here!
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds headline Red Notice and we’ve got the trailer. This looks like it will be fun but nothing great. Since it’s on Netflix, I’ll tune in.
An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI’s top profiler (Johnson) and two rival criminals (Gadot, Reynolds), there’s no telling what will happen.
“Mayor of Kingstown” Starring Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest and Kyle Chandler – The Trailer is Here!
The poster of Mayor of Kingstown is nothing to crow about, but the trailer is! Taylor Sheridan the writer behind Sicario and Hell or High Water brings us Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest and Kyle Chandler in what looks to be a series worthy of our time.
Mayor of Kingstown has earned my vote.
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family – power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
Stream Mayor of Kingstown, starring Jeremy Renner, November 14!
