Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I’m a fan of the original Fast & Furious. I thought Fast 5 was even better.
So I was pretty excited to hear that they were bringing back the whole team for Fast & Furious 6. Yep, they even brought back The Rock and Michelle Rodriguez. I guess the only thing that I’d have liked better is if Fast & Furious 6 had a Stallone cameo and room for Rosario Dawson.
Below is the just released featurette for Fast & Furious 6. Be advised that there are minor spoilers.
The Movie: Sharkey’s Machine
The Pitch: “Dirty Harry goes to Atlanta.”
The Tagline: “Burt is Sharky. Nobody leans on Sharky’s Machine!”
The Story: Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop demoted to vice after a botched drug bust results in a citizen being shot. Sharkey discovers a plot involving murders and a high level politician being manipulated by a crime boss. Sharkey pulls together a team of quirky cops, but as the bodies pile up find they are in over their heads.
The Screenplay: Gerald DiPego from the novel by William Diehl
The Director: Burt Reynolds
The Cast: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, Richard Libertini, Rachael Ward,Suzee Pai, Dan Inosanto .
The Good: The cast. The action. The soundtrack is awesome. Rachael Ward in her breakout role. Reynolds has the right balance of action/violence/humor. The shootout at the start and end of the movie.
The Bad: Henry Silva is a coked-up psycho hitman and that’s good. What happens to Reynolds when he crosses some Yakuza.
The Ugly: The torture scene on the boat.
The Rating: B
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his next Rocky card.
You can “C” more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Last night Sly sent out a series of tweets (seen above) that puts to rest the speculation on Mel Gibson (or John Woo) as the director of Expendables 3.
According to Sly, he found an EXCITING director… a young lion who Sly believes can help make Expendables 3 top Rambo as a pure action film.
Awesome. Can’t wait to hear who it is.
This is the first poster for 300 Rise of an Empire. As you probably guessed (if you didn’t already know), 300 Rise of an Empire is a sequel of sorts to 300.
The jury is out on this one, but I’m hoping for a thumbs-up verdict.
This is the first poster for Fast & Furious 6 that I’ve liked. It looks even better bigger thanks to IMPAwards.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his Rocky 2 card.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
MSN Entertainment recently listed their 100 Favorite Films. I’d seen 72 of them.
Of the 72, I could give a “thumbs-up” to all but 4. So it’s not a bad list, as lists go.
Of course, any list of favorite movies that doesn’t have Rocky in there somewhere has to be called into question.
Although I like this character poster of Johnny Depp as Tonto, I wonder how the movie, The Lone Ranger is going to do at the box office. My guess is it will either do really well or bomb.
In other words, I have no clue.
Fans of the traditional Lone Ranger (you know, folks old enough to remember the Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels Lone Ranger from the 50s tv series) will probably stay away. Of course if you’re old enough to remember the tv series, you’re probably not the demographic the movie is aiming for.
The question then becomes will Depp’s Pirate of the Caribbean fans show up?
But wait… is Johnny Depp the only selling point to this movie? What about Armie Hammer who is starring as The Lone Ranger?
Let me put it to you like this, I don’t think it’s Hammer Time.
If Depp’s fans don’t show up, the box office for The Lone Ranger will limp off in a cloud of dust with a weak, “Hi – No Silver, the Box Office It Got AWAY!”
Roger Ebert, was one of the most popular movie reviewers of our time, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize, and a fan of cartoons.
Mr. Ebert was a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption contest and had even won the contest on at least one occasion. Robert Mankoff takes a look at some of Roger Ebert’s Final Cartoon Captions at The New Yorker.
The cartoon that is posted above features one of Ebert’s captions, but it wasn’t the one that got him the win (“I’m not going to say the word I’m thinking of.”) or even the one that I thought was the funniest (“Now watch how I lift my tray table to it’s original and upright position.”). We’ll save those for folks that click over to the original New Yorker piece.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd rocks his riff on a Rocky card that is part of a sequence/set that I think you’re going to like.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Gerardo Moreno is back with his version of a new Terminator movie poster. I’ve always enjoyed Gerardo’s Stallone art, and know that I can see more of his art here.
I’m digging this poster for World War Z. I really hope the movie is living up to the hype.
If you’d like to see a World War-sized version of this poster, you can, thanks to the zombie fighters at IMPAwards.com.
Two Guns is based on a graphic novel (of the same name) written by Steven Grant and drawn by Mat Santolouco.
So it has a good foundation.
Two Guns opens on August 2nd. It looks like it’s competition will be 300: Rise of an Empire and Red 2.
So it should/could open at #1.
Two Guns has a new trailer that you can see below.
So what do you think?
So there’s going to be a new tv series based on the hit movie Zombieland. It will air on Amazon and be called Zombieland: The Series.
Despite today’s date, I’m not fooling.
That’s the poster for the series above. You can learn more about plans for the series in this article at Arrow in the Head.
