Marv by Nacho Yunis A.!

Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City is one of my all-time favorite characters. I love seeing artists do their “take” on the big lug. Today we have Marv by Nacho Yunis A.!
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Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City is one of my all-time favorite characters. I love seeing artists do their “take” on the big lug. Today we have Marv by Nacho Yunis A.!

24 Hours To Live (2017)
Director: Brian Smrz
Screenplay: Zach Dean, Jim McClain, Ron Mita
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Paul Anderson, Nat Boltt, Liam Cunningham, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tanya van Graan, Alex Anlos, Brendan Sean Murray, Clayton Evertson, Marty Kintu and Rutger Hauer.
Tagline: Contracted to Kill. Fighting to Survive.
The Plot…
Travis Conrad (Hawke) is a hitman killed while on a mission. Brought back to life by an experimental drug, Conrad learns that the folks behind the hit only wanted the information he obtained. That is why they brought him back to life… and that is why they plan to kill him now.
On the run, with just 24 hours to live, Conrad plans to get payback.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
24 Hours To Live isn’t a bad way to spend an hour and a half.
24 Hours To Live (2017) rates 3 of 5 stars.



To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited); story by Melchior Lengyel
Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Charles Halton, George Lynn, Henry Victor, Halliwell Hobbes, Rudolph Anders and Robert Stack.
Tagline: We announce the presentation of Carole Lombard’s last picture. An exciting romantic comedy keyed to an ever-mounting tempo of suspense. Jack Benny at his best in a surprisingly different comic role.
The Plot…
1942. World War II rages across Europe. In Poland, Professor Siletsky, a Nazi spy has a list of fighters in the Polish underground. If Silersky gets the list to Nazis, dozens of fighters will die and the Polish war effort will be crippled.
The only hope is a drama troupe led by Joseph Tura (Benny) and his wife Maria (Lombard). The troupe plans to impersonate Nazi leadership and take possession of Siletsky’s list.
What could go wrong?
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
To Be Or Not To Be was nominated for one 1943 Academy Award…
Sadly, this was Carole Lombard’s last film. Lombard, her mother and all on board died in a plane crash on January 16, 1942. Carole Lombard was 33. She was on a war bond tour at the time of the crash.
To Be Or Not To Be was released on March 6, 1942. Jack Benny was so upset that he didn’t attend a preview showing of the film just one week after Lombard’s death. Benny had also cancelled his weekly radio show the week that Carole Lombard died.
Carole Lombard said making To Be Or Not To Be was the happiest experience she ever had making a film. Jack Benny said this movie was the only great film. Ernst Lubitsch felt that To Be Or Not To Be was one of his best films.
Ernst Lubitsch, the film’s co-writer and director wrote the lead with Jack Benny in mind.
To Be Or Not To Be is a classic!
To Be Or Not To Be (1942) rates 5 of 5 stars.



Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Director: Christophe Gans
Screenplay: Christophe Gans, Stéphane Cabel
Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
Tagline: The year is 1766… The hunt for a killer has begun
The Plot…
The year is 1764. A beast, some call it a monster, is killing the people of Gévaudan. Grégoire de Fronsac (Le Bihan) and his Iroquois friend Mani (Dacascos) are sent to find and kill the creature.
They have no idea what awaits them.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Brotherhood of the Wolf has a toe in history. There really was a Beast of Gévaudan. It was described as a wolf-like creature. (It was probably a wolf or wolves.) During the years 1764 to 1767, the beast was blamed for as many as 100 killings.
I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf when it was first released in 2001. I liked it better then (4 of 5 stars). I downgraded it now partly due to the creature effects and the fact that everyone knows martial arts in 1764 France. Mark Dacascos as Mani, is still my favorite part of the movie.
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) rates 3 of 5 stars.


Here we have the poster for Riff Raff starring Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Pete Davidson and Bill Murray. I’ve also attached the trailer in case you missed it.
Deal me in.
Riff Raff – Watch the trailer now! In theaters February 28.
Starring Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Miles J. Harvey, Emanuela Postacchini, Michael Angelo Covino, Pete Davidson, and Bill Murray.
Oscar nominees Bill Murray and Ed Harris star alongside Emmy winner Jennifer Coolidge and Pete Davidson in this darkly comic crime thriller about how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love. Vincent (Harris) and his family plan to share a quiet New Year’s Eve together until his sketchy past catches up with him and the night reveals secrets no one could ever imagine. Gabrielle Union and Emmy nominee Lewis Pullman also star.

Act of Violence (1948)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay: Robert L. Richards; story by Collier Young
Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Taylor Holmes, Will Wright, Rudolph Anders and Barbara Billingsley (voice).
Tagline: He’s the only one that came out alive … and now he wants my life … to atone for the others’
The Plot…
Frank Enley (Heflin) is living the good life. Frank served proudly in the war. Now he has a job he loves. Frank is married to a wonderful woman who loves him. They have a beautiful little girl. Frank is a respected member of the community. Life is great.
Then Joe Parkson (Ryan) shows up.
Parkson was in a prisoner of war camp with Frank. Parkson knows that Frank Enley gave the Nazis information about a planned escape. The Nazis killed all the US soldiers trying to get away except Parkson. Parkson almost died and was left with a permanent limp.
Now that Parkson has found Frank Enley, he’s going to kill him.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Although Act of Violence bombed at the box office it has gained a positive following over the years. It currently has a 7.5/10 rating on the IMDb. At Rotten Tomatoes it scored 94% from critics and 76% from site users.
I’m in the minority on this one. I found it to be just okay.
Act of Violence (1948) rates 2 of 5 stars.



Dillinger (1945)
Director: Max Nosseck
Screenplay: Philip Yordan, William Castle (uncredited)
Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence, Fred Aldrich, Sam Balter (voice), Dick Elliott and Elisha Cook Jr..
Tagline: His Story Is Written in Bullets, Blood and Blondes!
The Plot…
The fictionalized account of John Dillinger (Tierney).
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Dillinger was Lawrence Tierney’s first starring role.
Dillinger (1945) rates 2 of 5 stars.


The poster and trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth are here. I like what I’m seeing.
Deal me in.
A new era is born. Watch the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer now.
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A new era is born. This summer, three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth.
Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.
Also starring acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the film is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Academy Award® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.
Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.
The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs’ crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by BAFTA winner Edwards from a script by Koepp (War of the Worlds), based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The film is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, both longtime Jurassic franchise producers and of last summer’s blockbuster, Twisters. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer.

Barry Windsor-Smith is considered one of the best Conan artists to ever draw the barbarian. This drawing is a great example of “why”.
Source: Eric Fabiaschi.

Hitler’s Executioners aka The Nuremberg Trials (1961)
Director: Félix Podmaniczky
Writers: Joe J. Heydecker, Johannes Leeb
Tagline: THE ACTUAL FILM! Written by Hitler Himself in the Blood of His 6 Million Victims! With Scenes Actually Filmed by Hitler! REVEALED AT LAST!
The Plot…
Documentary covering the Nuremberg trials.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Originally released as The Nuremberg Trials in 1958. Rereleased in 1961 as Hitler’s Executioners.
The movie posters look like they are for a 1950s/1960s horror movie. Sadly, the horror is all too real.
Hitler’s Executioners aka The Nuremberg Trials (1961) rates 3 of 5 stars.



This is just one of the beautiful pencil drawings in the Mark Schultz Gallery at The Bristol Board.

King of the Roaring 20’s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Screenplay: Jo Swerling; story by Leo Katcher; based on THE BIG BANKROLL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN, KING OF THE ROARING 20S by Leo Katcher
Stars: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Dan O’Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn, William Demarest, Regis Toomey, Robert Ellenstein, Tim Rooney, Mickey Rooney, John Alban, Fred Aldrich and Diana Dors.
Tagline: THE HELL-BENT, JAZZ-CRAZED ERA AND THE MAN WHO RULED IT ALL!
The Plot…
The fictionalized account of Arnold Rothstein (Janssen).
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Johnny Burke as a child was played by Tim Rooney. As an adult, he is played by Mickey Rooney. Tim Rooney is Mickey Rooney’s son.
King of the Roaring 20’s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) rates 2 of 5 stars.

