Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Sly Stallone has an official Youtube Channel. It features Sly taking us behind the scenes on his latest projects and items in his SlyStalloneShop. What’s really cool is they just posted an hour and a half documentary: The Making of ROCKY VS. DRAGO by Sylvester Stallone (with John Herzfeld behind the camera)!
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Liam Gaughan, at /Film, came up with his list of The Twenty Best Western Movie Actors and it is a good one. As I thought about my choices the top two were easy. The tough part was deciding which order for the top two and who would get the third spot. After some deliberation here are my top three…
#3. Kurt Russell comes in at the third spot based on two strong lead performances in Tombstone and Bone Tomahawk. It’s a shame Russell hasn’t made more westerns because the genre suits him.
#2. Clint Eastwood was my choice for the number two spot and I really considered putting him in at #1. Eastwood’s westerns always score well with fan and critics. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Josey Wales and Unforgiven are considered classics. I wouldn’t argue too hard against Eastwood in the number one spot, but this time out I gave it to…
#1. John Wayne. My first place spot goes to the man that most folks think of first when they think of cowboy movie stars. Wayne’s career spanned 50 years and he made so many popular westerns: Stagecoach, Angel and the Badman, Fort Apache, Red River, Hondo, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, True Grit, The Cowboys and The Shootist are some of my favorites.
The Comic Art of Mike Zeck is the subject of a Gallery Showing currently running in the LOIS + DAVID STULBERG GALLERY at Ringling College in Sarasota, Florida. The Mike Zeck exhibition is scheduled from OCTOBER 18, 2021 – MARCH 25, 2022.
I planned to go down and see the Mike Zeck Gallery the week of Thanksgiving, but (thankfully) checked on the hours of operation only to discover that the gallery will be closed the entire holiday week. That just means I need to find another time to visit.
I’ve known Mike Zeck for over 40 years. Mike is as talented as he is nice and that’s saying a lot. I met Mike through my best bud since junior high, John Beatty. Beatty started out as a fan of Mike’s art, became his friend and later collaborated with Mike on many high profile projects. It’ll be cool to see all of the Mike Zeck art on display. I’m sure it will be strange to see original art that I once held 4o years ago now under the spot light.
If you can make it to Mike Zeck’s Gallery showing, you should. Either way, here’s a video to give you a taste.
I like the poster and the trailer for Blonde. Purple. I’m a sucker for crime movies as long as they look good. Blonde. Purple makes the cut.
A nameless out of his depth inexperienced criminal is stuck in a bank, after a heist went wrong. How will he get out? His accomplice has been shot outside by the trigger happy police. Now with a 16 year old hostage called Maddison inside the bank, he has one move left: if his accomplice dies, he’ll kill the girl. We follow his journey to escape, whilst learning how he got into the situation in the first place. A journey that will force him to face truths about himself that he has been avoiding all his life. Available November 30.
Directed by Marcus Flemmings
Sylvester Stallone and John Herzfeld (Actor/Writer/Director and Sly’s long-time friend) take us behind the scenes to share Sly thoughts on the Rocky franchise with a focus on Rocky IV: Rocky vs Drago.
During the Covid-19 shutdown of 2020, Stallone tackled his long-planned cut of the film: the result is ROCKY IV: ROCKY VS. DRAGO, a fine-tuning of the legendary film as well as a fascinating time capsule of a pop-cultural moment.
When it was released in 1985, ROCKY IV became the highest-grossing of all the “ROCKY” films. From writer, director and star Sylvester Stallone, ROCKY IV also features Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Robert Doornick, and Stu Nahan. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff produced the original film, with James D. Brubaker and Arthur Chobanian serving as executive producers.
Kyle Hotz shares his take on Frank Miller’s Marv from Sin City. What I wouldn’t give to see Hotz do a Sin City tale! If you’d like to see more of Kyle Hotz’s art, you can at his Instagram.
I’ve never been a big fan of The Beach Boys. I like several of their songs, but was more into other bands. It has always intrigued me how people in the music industry talk about the genius of Brian Wilson. I like the look of this trailer and look forward to learning more about the man behind the band.
Join The Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson on an intimate journey through his legendary career as he reminisces with Rolling Stone editor and longtime friend, Jason Fine. Featuring a new song written and performed by Wilson and interviews with Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Jonas, Linda Perry, Jim James, Gustavo Dudamel and Al Jardine.
brianwilsonlongpromisedroad.com
Rob Hunter, at Film School Rejects, posted a fun piece called 43 Things We Learned from ‘The Suicide Squad’ Commentary with James Gunn.
9. (Joel) Kinnaman was challenged as he’s not typically associated with comedies, but he quickly showed a talent and an affinity for earning laughs. (For All Mankind is where I first really noticed what a fine actor Kinnaman is. I highly recommend the series as well. – Craig)
14. Gunn says John Cena is “probably the most gifted improvisational actor I’ve ever worked with in my life.” (I found this a bit surprising, but was happy to hear it. Cena seems like a nice guy off screen. – Craig)
26. Elba doesn’t actually smoke, and he has asthma, so the scene where Bloodsport smokes in the back of the van left his eyes watering. “I had to take a tear out of his eye with visual effects because I liked the shot.” (Elba doing what it takes for his art! – Craig)
I’m surprised at how much I am looking forward to Cowboy Bebop. This is going to be a fun ride.
COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.
Based on the beloved anime series, COWBOY BEBOP is executive produced by André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise Inc., Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg, and Christopher Yost. Nemec serves as showrunner. Original anime series director Shinichirō Watanabe is a consultant on the series, and original composer Yoko Kanno returns for the live-action adaptation. The series also stars Alex Hassell and Elena Satine.
Watch Cowboy Bebop, a live-action series, only on Netflix Nov. 19.
Polaroid is an excellent example of a creepy, scary movie short done without a huge budget or special effects.
It’s the things we can’t see that terrify us the most…
CAST:
Alex – Ethan Mikael
Monster – Kevin Michael ShileyCREW:
Writer | Producer | Director | Editor | Score – Joey Greene
Yesterday Steve Niles sent a Tweet with the image above and…
Here’s the synopsis…The complete collection of Criminal Macabre prose stories by Steve Niles featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter! Now available for pre-order! In stores March 2, 2022. Cover by E.M. Gist. @DarkHorseComics @TheHorrorMaster
The complete collection of Criminal Macabre prose stories by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter!
The world has two faces. The natural and the supernatural. The face we see every day, people filing past us in an almost zombie-like stupor, numb to the horrors of everyday life or driven to madness by the pain and agony of modern-day existence. And those are the people who aren’t zombies or monsters!
Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world, and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all-too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain, but never erase it. Cut from the same mold as Sam Spade, Jake Gittes, and the famous detectives of Chandler, Hammett and Spillane, Cal McDonald, whether he likes it or not, is all that stands between us and the nightmare world just outside our vision.
Collects the complete Criminal Macabre prose stories Savage Membrane; Guns, Drugs, and Monsters; Dial M for Monster, All My Bloody Things, and two new prose stories: The Dead Son and Out of Water.
Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Prose Stories by Steve Niles is available for pre-order now. Deal me in!
One of my favorite comic book characters is Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City yarns. Miller didn’t create the art above. That’s Simon Bisley’s riff on our buddy Marv and I like it. Hope you do as well.
Here’s my review of The Many Saints of Newark.
I like the poster and cast for Dangerous but the trailer has left me with mixed feelings.
Ex-con and reformed sociopath Dylan Forrester (Scott Eastwood) is trying to quietly serve out his parole — with the help of a steady supply of antidepressants and his eccentric psychiatrist (Mel Gibson). But when his brother dies under mysterious circumstances, Dylan breaks parole and, with a dogged FBI agent (Famke Janssen) on his trail, goes to uncover the truth. A band of heavily armed mercenaries wants something Dylan’s brother was hiding, and Dylan will need all his guile and tactical skills to survive in this action-packed thriller costarring Kevin Durand and Tyrese Gibson.
The second trailer for Red Notice is here and I like it! I didn’t care for the first trailer. Now I want to see the movie. I’m going to have to re-watch the first again to see what’s changed. Maybe it was just me.
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.
Watch Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot in RED NOTICE, on Netflix November 12:
