Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I hope you did this Rambo drawing by Matthew Harrower as much as me.
Matthew is an freelance illustrator and character artist. He’s influenced by his love of comics, transformers, mechs, John Woo movies and most things from his childhood. Matthew is currently studying for his Master’s Degree in Character Animation.
If you’d like to see more of Matthew’s art you can follow him on his Twitter or his Instagram account.
Did someone say the start of a zombie apocalypse? Yep and we have the poster and trailer to The Clearing to prove it.
Set at the dawn of a zombie apocalypse, The Clearing unfolds amid tensions between Tom (McIntyre) and his wife (Sydelle Noel) over his parental responsibilities and the time he spends with his young daughter Mira (Smith). Tom takes Mira on a camping trip, only to discover the impending disaster that leaves the pair trapped in a clearing in the woods, fighting to make it out alive.
The Outpost poster and trailer are here!
Based on true events, in this military thriller, a small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Rod Lurie (The Contender, The Last Castle) and adapted by Oscar-nominated screenwriting duo Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) the film stars Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones and Orlando Bloom with Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, Taylor John Smith, Jonathan Yunger. Three troops who fought at COP Keating appear in the film including Medal of Honor recipient Ty Carter.
The Outpost is based on The New York Times best-selling non-fiction book, The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor from CNN’s Jake Tapper.
The Old Guard poster and trailer are here!
Forever is harder than it looks. Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Greg Rucka and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE & BASKETBALL, BEYOND THE LIGHTS), THE OLD GUARD is a gritty, grounded, action-packed story that shows living forever is harder than it looks. Coming to Netflix on July 10.
It must be action movie Wednesday. Here’s the poster and trailer to I Am Vengeance: Retaliation.
The poster and trailer to Legacy of Lies both have a real 80s action movie feel. That’s not a bad thing.
Scott Adkins (The Expendables 2) stars in this pulse-pounding global spy thriller. A decade earlier, agent Martin quit MI6 after his wife’s tragic murder in an operation gone wrong. But when Sacha, a beautiful journalist, asks for help solving an old case, Martin finds himself in the crosshairs of both UK and Russian intelligence. Now, with his daughter held captive by the KGB, Martin has just 24 hours to deliver the secret case files—which means risking both Sacha’s life and his own.
Sylvester Stallone will be the first celebrity host for a new live Facebook series called Screening Room With The Stars. Each week a livestream of a movie will be hosted by someone from the film with fans having the opportunity to interact with the star. The series will benefit organizations / communities impacted by the coronavirus. The series starts tomorrow at 4pm on MGM Studios’ Facebook page.
For full details check out CAA Launches ‘Screening Room With The Stars’ Series For COVID-19 Charities; Sly Stallone & ‘Rocky’ Go First by Patrick Hipes at Deadline.
Here’s the poster and trailer to Infamous. This one has a definite Oliver Stone Natural Born Killers vibe to it.
Two young lovers rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media, and gaining fame and followers as a result.
CAST: Bella Thorne, Marisa Coughlan, Amber Riley and Jake Manley
DIRECTOR: Joshua Caldwell
Below we have the trailer to The Last Days of American Crime. If the title sounds familiar it could be because I’ve been talking about The Last Days of American Crime for almost 17 years. Yep, 17 years. I’ll explain after the trailer.
As a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke (Édgar Ramírez), a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with famous gangster progeny Kevin Cash (Michael Pitt), and black market hacker Shelby Dupree (Anna Brewster), to commit the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal goes off. Based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel created by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini, The Last Days of American Crime is directed by Olivier Megaton, written by Karl Gajdusek, produced by Jesse Berger, p.g.a., Jason Michael Berman, p.g.a., and Barry Levine, with Sharlto Copley also co-starring.
Watch The Last Days of American Crime on Netflix June 5
Way back in November of 2003, I posted Meet Rick Remender. Rick was a comic writer and artist I met through my buddy, John Beatty. John was inking Rick’s pencils on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Rick also had an idea for a comic mini-series he called The Last Days of American Crime. I loved the art, title and idea for the story.
In 2007, I met Rick at HeroesCon. Not only did I get hang with him for a bit, Rick also did a Stallone sketch for my collection. Rick said that The Last Days of American Crime was still in the works. Rick had so many projects going (Fear Agent, Sea of Red, and Strange Girl just to name three) that I had started to think that he’d never get to it.
In March of 2009, I posted the art above and the news that “The Last Days of American Crime” would premiere later that year in a three issue [48 pages each] mini-series with art by Greg Tocchini. Yea! The wait was nearly over. And how about Greg Tocchini’s art!
In April 2009, we got a look at Tocchini’s The Last Days of American Crime preview cover made for Comic-Con.
In August 2009, CBR.com ran a 17 page preview of The Last Days of American Crime.
In September 2009, CBR.com gave us another preview. The anticipation was building…
In November 2009, the news was Sam Worthington had signed on to produce and star in a big screen adaptation of Rick Remender’s The Last Days of American Crime. Wow! We’d probably see The Last Days of American Crime movie in a year or so, right?
In December 2009, we got another preview of The Last Days of American Crime mini-series.
In September 2010, I posted The Not So Last Days of American Crime. Rick had announced that he had ideas for more tales set in the same The Last Days of American Crime universe!
And now nearly 17 years after that first post and almost ten years after my final post about The Last Days of American Crime we have a trailer for the movie. How long until someone starts calling Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini overnight sensations?
Here are the Force of Nature poster and trailer. It’s a drive-in movie and hopefully a good one.
PLOT: A gang of thieves plan a heist during a hurricane and encounter trouble when a cop tries to force everyone in the building to evacuate. #ForceOfNature
CAST: Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, Emile Hirsch
Above we have the Darkness Falls poster. Below we have the trailer and in between we have the synopsis. I like their twist on the serial killer genre.
After his wife’s suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
Directed by: Julien Seri
Starring: Shawn Ashmore, Gary Cole, Daniella Alonso
Above is one of the posters for Ashfall and below is the official International Ashfall trailer. I like the looks of both the poster and trailer and look forward to seeing the movie. If you agree, click over to FirstShowing and you can check out another Ashfall poster and teaser.
I think a return trip to Paradise Alley is in order. We could catch up with the Carboni brothers, Frankie the Thumper, Big Glory, Stitch, Mumbles and all the other mugs there. Maybe we could swing over to the dance hall and see Annie and Bunchie and hear that smug dance hall crooner. We could end the night with a rooftop race.
Are you in?
Source: Brian Stooss ULTRA STALLONE FanPage
Rare : Behind the Scenes of Paradise Alley Kudos : Joe Breen
Paolo Cubadda created the very cool art above. I saw it at Sylvester Stallone’s Official Sly Stallone Shop on Instagram.
I like this Night of the Living Dead tribute poster. Not sure of who the artist is, but if I find out, I’ll update here.
Tiny nit, I wish we could hint of a zombie face or two and some of the hands grabbing Barbara were more zombie-like. But those are two very minor quibbles.
Source: R. J. Crowther Jr..
