Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody = A Short Crime Movie!
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody makes a better short crime movie than you might think. Give the link below a go and see if you don’t agree.
Category: Crime
Frank Grillo is the “Wheelman” – The Teaser is Here!
The Teaser is Here! Frank Grillo is the Wheelman!
Saboteur (1942) / Z-View
Saboteur (1942)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Peter Viertel & Joan Harrison & Dorothy Parker
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings and Otto Kruger
The Pitch: “Hitchcock want to make ‘Saboteur’”
Tagline: You’d like to say – IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE!… but every jolting scene is TRUE!!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
After an aircraft manufacturing plant is destroyed by sabotage, an innocent worker, Barry Kane (Cummings) finds himself on the run from authorities who believe he was saboteur. Kane’s efforts to clear himself lead him to a bigger plan of sabotage. Can he prove his innocence and convince authorities of the next planned attack before it is too late?
Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings make a great couple!
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Crime of Passion (1957) / Z-View
Crime of Passion (1957)
Director: Gerd Oswald
Screenplay: Jo Eisinger (original story and screenplay)
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr and Faye Wray
The Pitch: “Let’s make a film about a couple where one’s ambitions and lack of morals destroy them, but we’ll flip it so the female lead is the bad ‘guy’!”
Tagline: The stripped-of-shame story of a cop’s wife who committed one sin too many!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Kathy (Stanwyck) is an ambitious newspaper columnist who falls for LA detective, Bill Doyle (Hayden), in a whirlwind romance that leads to marriage. Soon enough Kathy realizes her husband is content with his rank and has no desire to rise to the top. Kathy becomes jealous and envious of others and begins to plot a way to change the status quo. That it involves infidelity and murder matters little to her.
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Frailty (2001) / Z-View
Frailty (2001)
Director: Bill Paxton
Screenplay: Brent Hanley
Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
The Pitch: “Bill Paxton wants to direct ‘Frailty’ – let’s do it!”
Tagline: There are demons among us
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Adam and Fenton are young brothers, being raised by their single parent dad. Dad is a hard-working loving parent and all is well with the family… until one night when their father wakes them up to reveal that he had been visited by an Angel. The Angel told dad that demons live among them and they have been chosen to slay them.
Fenton realizes his father had gone crazy, while Adam is convinced their dad was visited by an Angel. Fenton hopes this will pass, but when dad brings home a normal looking man who dad claims to be a demon and kills him, Fenton knows this is just the start…
Frailty is a classic that gets better with repeated viewings. Paxton’s acting and direction (the only film he directed!) is point on. Powers Boothe is, as always, excellent. This may be Matthew McConaughey’s best performance. Love the twists and turns.
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Risso Takes The Punisher to Sin City!
Eduardo Risso, genius that he is, takes the Punisher to Sin City… and yes, that is Nancy Callahan!
Source: In Trash We Trust
Trailer for “Brawl in Cell Block 99” is Here!
The trailer for Brawl in Cell Block 99 didn’t knock me out, but I still can’t wait to see S. Craig Zahler’s follow-up to Bone Tomahawk.
Small Crimes (2017) / Z-View
Small Crimes (2017)
Director: Evan Katz
Screenplay: Macon Blair and Evan Katz based on a novel by David Zeltserman
Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Robert Forster, Jacki Weaver and Gary Cole.
The Pitch: “Let’s turn David Zeltserman’s novel into a movie!”
Tagline: None.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When ex-cop, ex-con, Joe Denton is released from prison he finds himself still entangled with the crooks and crooked cop who got him sent up. Each step Joes makes takes him deeper into a life of crime where his chances of survival are knife-blade thin.
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The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Blood Pumping
Gem Seddon and GamesRadar present The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Blood Pumping. Seddon has come up with a great list. It was hard to pick just three, so depending on my mood, my choices could change. But for now, here they are (with some thoughts to follow)…
5. Aliens (1986)
Action hero: Ellen RipleyThe film: Ridley Scott’s atmospheric opener saw Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) trapped on a spaceship with a single Xenomorph, so it made sense for James Cameron’s sequel to try and up the ante: an abandoned space colony, a unit of gung-ho marines and an entire hive of acid bleeding bugs.
Most action-packed scene: Confronting the queen in the bowels of the industrial complex, Ripley has a few nice mother-to-mother moments before later strapping into the power loader and fighting her claw to claw.
2. Die Hard (1988)
Action hero: John McClane
The film: New York cop John McClane picks the first of many wrong places and wrong times to visit his wife at work, but for star Bruce Willis and director John McTiernan, the timing couldn’t have been better. Putting an ordinary Joe in the middle of a firefight, confining a terrorist takeover to a single, claustrophobic building, and balancing quip-smart dialogue with hard and heavy action set-pieces, Die Hard set the mold and broke it at the same time.Most action-packed scene: A rooftop bomb. A short fire hose. A plate glass window. The rest is history.
8. John Wick (2014)
Action hero: John WickThe film: Director Chad Stahelski overcomes first-time jitters in his filmmaking debut, largely due to his experiences as a martial arts stunt co-ordinator. This revenge actioner throws in some dark motivating factors for Keanu Reeves leading man. His vendetta kill mission is the most dazzling work Reeves has accomplished since his first time tackling Neo.
Most action-packed scene: Wick enters a club wherein he punches, kicks, headbutts and shoots anyone who crosses his path. Each strike hits with an eerie precision.
I was glad to see Stallone made the top 25 with First Blood. I was also happy to see both John Wick films made the cut. If it was my list I would have found room for Rambo and Enter the Dragon.
Shield for Murder (1954) / Z-View
Shield for Murder (1954)
Director: Howard W. Koch and Edmond O’Brien
Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons and John C. Higgins from a novel by William P. McGivern
Stars: Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English, John Agar, Caroline Jones and Claude Akins.
The Pitch: “Let’s turn William McGivern’s best-seller into a movie!”
Tagline: The Story Of A Killer-Cop Who Used His “SHIELD FOR MURDER”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When tough cop Detective Nolan (O’Brien) kills a bookie for the 25 grand the bookie is carrying, he thinks there are no witness. Nolan then learns a deaf/mute man saw the murder. This leads Nolan down a path of no-return full of murder and mayhem.
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“Brawl in Cell Block 99” Poster
The poster for Brawl in Cell Block 99 didn’t win me over, but I still can’t wait to see S. Craig Zahler’s folow-up to Bone Tomahawk.
Kill Me Again (1989) / Z-View
Kill Me Again (1989)
Director: John Dahl
Screenplay: John Dahl and David W. Warfield
Stars: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen and Bibi Besch.
The Pitch: “Let’s throwback detective story about a pretty woman, stolen money, a psycho boyfriend and down-on-his-luck private eye.”
Tagline: Her last request was his first mistake.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When an attractive woman (Whalley) offers Jack Andrews (Kilmer) enough money to get him out from under with his bookies, Andrews agrees to help her disappear. What Andrews doesn’t know is that she’s on the run from her psycho boyfriend (Madsen) with the cash that they stole and killed to keep.
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15 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT ‘HAWAII FIVE-O’
Me-TV presents 15 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT ‘HAWAII FIVE-O’. Here are three of my favorites…
THE “FIVE-O” SLANG FOR POLICE CAME FROM THIS TELEVISION SHOW.
Ever wonder where that piece of slang came from? Believe it or not, the TV series originated it. The series’ title actually was an homage to Hawaii being the 50th state of the U.S.A. Hawaii Five-O used the numerals as the fictional police division on the show. Over the year, the term came to be used as code for police in general.THE SHOW NEARLY STARRED GREGORY PECK.
Jack Lord will forever be associated with his character Steve McGarrett, but producers originally had other actors in mind. Richard Boone, the former star of Have Gun – Will Travel, was first offered the part. The former “Paladin” turned it down. Hollywood legend Gregory Peck was also considered for McGarrett. Robert Brown, perhaps best known for playing Lazarus in the Star Trek episode “The Alternative Factor,” nearly won the role, as well, before creators settled on Lord.ONE CONTROVERSIAL EPISODE WAS BANNED AND WILL NOT BE SEEN AGAIN.
When it originally aired on January 7, 1970, “Bored, She Hung Herself” was one of the stranger cases of Hawaii Five-O. Don Quine, best known as a regular on The Virginian, portrayed Don Miles. He was the primary suspect in the episode, after his girlfriend, Wanda (Pamela Murphy), was found dead, hanging from a noose in their Hawaiian apartment. Audiences were unaccustomed to seeing a character who practices a so-called form of “yoga” with a noose. Somewhere in America, a viewer tried the hanging technique performed by Don at the opening of the episode — and died. “Bored, She Hung Herself” was never shown again, and is no longer included in syndication packages.
Kansas City Confidential (1952) / Z-View
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Director: Phil Karlson
Screenplay: George Bruce and Harry Essex from a story by Harold R. Greene and Rowland Brown
Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam and Donna Drake.
The Pitch: “Let’s make a crime movie with an ex-con trying to go straight framed for a heist by crooks and crooked cops!”
Tagline: Exploding! Like a gun in your face!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Joe Rolfe (Payne) is an ex-con trying to go straight who finds himself set-up to take the fall of a million dollar heist. When the cops can’t beat a confession out of Rolfe, they release him. This allows Rolfe to begin a real investigation. The trail takes him to Mexico where he finds himself up against the crooks and a crooked cop.
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Mike Torrance and Frank Nitti
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and this time it is with Sly as Frank Nitti from Capone.
Mike is a great guy and his commissions are always a blast!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
