{"id":38247,"date":"2025-01-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38247"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T00:42:47","slug":"the-channel-2023-written-directed-by-william-kaufman-starring-clayne-crawford-and-max-martini-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38247","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Channel&#8221; (2023) written &amp; directed by William Kaufman; starring Clayne Crawford and Max Martini \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012825zview_thechannel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Channel <\/i>(2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>William Kaufman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0<strong>William Kaufman; <\/strong>story by<strong> Paul Reichelt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, Nicoye Banks, Juliene Joyner, Jaren Mitchell, E.K. Spila, Linds Edwards, Todd Jenkins, Gary Cairns, Mike Lobo Daniel, Paul Rae, Jay Moses, Tyler Galpin <\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Michael Thomas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamie&#8217;s daughter needs a life-saving operation.\u00a0 So he agrees to join his brother Mic and a crew of ex-soldiers on a bank robbery.\u00a0 When the heist goes sideways, cops are killed.\u00a0 Now the FBI has brought in a crack team and the city has been locked down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mic was already on edge. Now he&#8217;s out of control.\u00a0 As the cops and FBI close in the body count rises.\u00a0 Family got Jamie into this mess&#8230; now family might get him killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>The Channel<\/i> has enough action to entertain.\u00a0 While it at times feels like a low-budget <em>Heat<\/em>, that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 The run-in with the gang bangers with the acid bath is memorable.<\/p>\n<p>Max Martini can be seen on <em>The Lioness<\/em> Season 2 as Tracer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>The Channel <\/i>(2023) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012825zview_thechannel2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Channel (2023) Director: \u00a0William Kaufman Screenplay:\u00a0William Kaufman; story by Paul Reichelt Stars: Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, Nicoye Banks, Juliene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38248,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247\/revisions\/38248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}