Jean Smart and Hannah Eindbinder start in ‘Hacks’ Season 2 for Max. Photos by Karen Ballard Buckle up for some side-splitting laughs! Hannah Einbinder is dropping her comedy special on Max this June. Catch it live on stage at the El Rey Theatre in LA on April 20th – you won’t want to miss this! You know her from HBO’s hilarious “Hacks”? Now Hannah Einbinder’s bringing her razor-sharp stand-up to the screen. Her words, not ours: “Finally, my neuroses will pay off! Thanks, Max!” Mark your calendars – this special is going to be a riot! Only on Max this June.
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- 4/8/2024
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Jean Smart stars in ‘Hacks’ (Photograph by Karen Ballard/HBO Max)
Helen Hunt (Mad About You) and Christina Hendricks (Good Girls) will take on guest starring roles in the upcoming third season of Max’s award-winning comedy Hacks. The streaming service also announced Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal), George Wallace (Clean Slate), and Tony Goldwyn (Oppenheimer) will appear in guest starring roles in season three.
Season three, which is expected to premiere this spring, stars Emmy, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award winner Jean Smart as Deborah Vance and Emmy, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award nominee Hannah Einbinder as Ava. Returning cast members include Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo.
“A year after parting, Deborah Vance is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles,...
Helen Hunt (Mad About You) and Christina Hendricks (Good Girls) will take on guest starring roles in the upcoming third season of Max’s award-winning comedy Hacks. The streaming service also announced Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal), George Wallace (Clean Slate), and Tony Goldwyn (Oppenheimer) will appear in guest starring roles in season three.
Season three, which is expected to premiere this spring, stars Emmy, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award winner Jean Smart as Deborah Vance and Emmy, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award nominee Hannah Einbinder as Ava. Returning cast members include Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo.
“A year after parting, Deborah Vance is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Season 2, Episodes 1-8 of Hacks.] Hacks took viewers on quite a trip this season as Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her comedy collaborator Ava (Hannah Einbinder) hit the road to test her standup routine. While the grand plan didn’t exactly play out as they had imagined, the women created magic that was bottled up in a taped standup special. Even if not every audience member made it through the experience (R.I.P to the man who took a free ticket for the last time). On display throughout the season was the ever-changing dynamic of these women as they climbed a few metaphorical mountains. Helping put it all into focus was the touring element that co-creator and co-showrunner Lucia Aniello acknowledges as being a key point in Ava and Deborah’s story this season. (Credit: Karen Ballard/HBO Max) “There’s something about traveling with somebody that tells you so much about ...
- 6/3/2022
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Season 2, Episodes 1-6 of Hacks.] Hacks is back in all its hilarious glory for Season 2 and one of its best onscreen dynamics is between agent Jimmy (series co-creator Paul W. Downs) and his feisty assistant Kayla (Meg Stalter). After Kayla began blurring lines in their work relationship in Season 1, this latest chapter of their story has focused on setting boundaries after a meeting with Hr provides Jimmy with temporary relief from the hell he’s been living in. Ultimately, his big mouth gets him in trouble and he’s forced to take Kayla back as his assistant in order to salvage his career. (Credit: Karen Ballard/HBO Max) The question of whether these individuals operating on very different paths can get along will remain to be seen, but in the latest installments, the duo began to find some common ground. After faking anger issues in order to get Kayla removed from his desk, ...
- 5/26/2022
- TV Insider
Wherever Jean Smart goes, in her deservedly Emmy-winning role as defiant stand-up comedy legend Deborah Vance, I will eagerly follow. In the second season of the glorious HBO Max show-biz fable Hacks, that entails a rollicking cross-country tour as she hones a risky and revealing new act, having been unceremoniously dumped from her longtime Las Vegas residency. Along for the very bumpy ride: millennial writer and sidekick Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who has her own soul-baring to do. In the back-to-back episodes opening Season 2, she lives in fear that their working and personal relationship will never be the same should Deborah learn about the drunken e-mail Ava sent following a bitter spat, exposing her boss’ worst behaviors to TV producers eager for insider gossip. To the show’s credit, this Sword of Damocles hanging plot strand is resolved fairly quickly in an explosive but satisfying manner. Karen Ballard/HBO Max In her act,...
- 5/11/2022
- TV Insider
While you may not remember when the stature of Nicolas Cage and his acting ability became the stuff of legend, rest assured it did and Tom Gormican’s film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent sets out to ensure that everyone recognizes how utterly fantastic Mr. Cage is.
The film follows actor Nicolas Cage as, facing an uncertain financial future and dwindling acting prospects, he is forced to accept a rather lucrative offer to appear at the birthday party of a wealthy fan played by Pedro Pascal. Intending to retire after the party appearance rids him of his debts, Cage finds himself recruited by CIA agents Vivan (Tiffany Haddish) and Martin (Ike Barinholtz) to provide intelligence on his superfan, whom they believe to be a notorious drug smuggler.
As is the case in Hollywood, nothing is as it initially appears in this film. It is a continually evolving storyline that boasts enough twists,...
The film follows actor Nicolas Cage as, facing an uncertain financial future and dwindling acting prospects, he is forced to accept a rather lucrative offer to appear at the birthday party of a wealthy fan played by Pedro Pascal. Intending to retire after the party appearance rids him of his debts, Cage finds himself recruited by CIA agents Vivan (Tiffany Haddish) and Martin (Ike Barinholtz) to provide intelligence on his superfan, whom they believe to be a notorious drug smuggler.
As is the case in Hollywood, nothing is as it initially appears in this film. It is a continually evolving storyline that boasts enough twists,...
- 4/23/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
‘Patriots Day’ (Courtesy: Karen Ballard/CBS Films/Lionsgate)
By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscar race just got a little more crowded.
Patriots Day, a drama about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that marks the third pairing of writer/director Peter Berg and actor Mark Wahlberg (after 2013’s Lone Survivor and September’s Deepwater Horizon), closed the 30th AFI Fest tonight, and the audience at the Tcl Chinese Theatre couldn’t have responded in a bigger way. The packed house — much of which was sniffling and wiping tears throughout the screening — applauded loudly as the credits began to roll, and then got on its feet for a prolonged ovation as the lights came up to reveal Berg and Wahlberg flanking several of the real survivors of and first-responders to the terror attack.
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By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscar race just got a little more crowded.
Patriots Day, a drama about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that marks the third pairing of writer/director Peter Berg and actor Mark Wahlberg (after 2013’s Lone Survivor and September’s Deepwater Horizon), closed the 30th AFI Fest tonight, and the audience at the Tcl Chinese Theatre couldn’t have responded in a bigger way. The packed house — much of which was sniffling and wiping tears throughout the screening — applauded loudly as the credits began to roll, and then got on its feet for a prolonged ovation as the lights came up to reveal Berg and Wahlberg flanking several of the real survivors of and first-responders to the terror attack.
Read the rest of this entry…...
- 11/18/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
(Courtesy: Karen Ballard/CBS Films/Lionsgate)
By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
THR’s awards expert offers his latest assessment of the landscape as in the wake of the Academy’s Governors Awards and in the midst of AFI Fest.
These projections are a reflection of Scott Feinberg’s personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some awards groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and awards voters).
Read the rest of this entry…...
By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
THR’s awards expert offers his latest assessment of the landscape as in the wake of the Academy’s Governors Awards and in the midst of AFI Fest.
These projections are a reflection of Scott Feinberg’s personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some awards groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and awards voters).
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- 11/14/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
The Last Ship Review
Over the last few years, we’ve learned that there are two distinct options when you’re looking at a big budget, television effort. There’s the option to focus a lot of attention on the script’s ability to deliver solid characters and convincing, intelligent plot lines, and then there’s the option to go the road of something like Terra Nova, which started off great, but quickly seemed determined to become a sort of sci-fi Grey’s Anatomy. You might not have too much trouble figuring out which direction Michael Bay is interested in, and how The Last Ship plays.
The easiest demonstration of the choice comes from the support positions we have to assume are, or are not, on the show’s payroll. When our show is about a virus that wipes out a huge portion of the world’s population and the...
Over the last few years, we’ve learned that there are two distinct options when you’re looking at a big budget, television effort. There’s the option to focus a lot of attention on the script’s ability to deliver solid characters and convincing, intelligent plot lines, and then there’s the option to go the road of something like Terra Nova, which started off great, but quickly seemed determined to become a sort of sci-fi Grey’s Anatomy. You might not have too much trouble figuring out which direction Michael Bay is interested in, and how The Last Ship plays.
The easiest demonstration of the choice comes from the support positions we have to assume are, or are not, on the show’s payroll. When our show is about a virus that wipes out a huge portion of the world’s population and the...
- 6/18/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Chicago – While normally I’d never think the date I screened a film was newsworthy, being subjected to “Jack Reacher” on Dec. 13, 2012 turned out to put even a therapist into therapy. The very next day, well, just two words: Sandy Hook.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The theme of a senseless mass shooting in this Tom Cruise movie turned out to foreshadow the actual massacre at that condemned elementary school in Newton, Conn. Anything but serendipity, the cinematic-turned-true event still has me reeling and will most certainly have audiences feeling déjà vu.
The film almost feels disrespectfully “too soon” to see now that it’s opening day, but the show must go on. This surprisingly rated-“PG-13” film on its relatively low $60-million budget is an attempted cross between Tyler Perry’s “Alex Cross,” “Dirty Harry” and – dare I even utter his name? – the unparalleled Jason Bourne.
Read Adam Fendelman’s full review of...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The theme of a senseless mass shooting in this Tom Cruise movie turned out to foreshadow the actual massacre at that condemned elementary school in Newton, Conn. Anything but serendipity, the cinematic-turned-true event still has me reeling and will most certainly have audiences feeling déjà vu.
The film almost feels disrespectfully “too soon” to see now that it’s opening day, but the show must go on. This surprisingly rated-“PG-13” film on its relatively low $60-million budget is an attempted cross between Tyler Perry’s “Alex Cross,” “Dirty Harry” and – dare I even utter his name? – the unparalleled Jason Bourne.
Read Adam Fendelman’s full review of...
- 12/21/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
(Yahoo)
Here’s the brand new poster for Jack Reacher. Written for the Screen and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, actor Tom Cruise takes on the role of ex-military investigator Jack Reacher. A new trailer goes online tomorrow, but watch the one released a few months ago below.
From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen. When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: .Get Jack Reacher!. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Robert Duvall, Jack Reacher will be in theaters December 21, 2012.
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Here’s the brand new poster for Jack Reacher. Written for the Screen and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, actor Tom Cruise takes on the role of ex-military investigator Jack Reacher. A new trailer goes online tomorrow, but watch the one released a few months ago below.
From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen. When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: .Get Jack Reacher!. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Robert Duvall, Jack Reacher will be in theaters December 21, 2012.
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- 10/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo credit: Karen Ballard. (c) 2012 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher and Robert Duvall is Cash in this new photo from Jack Reacher, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen . ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: .Get Jack Reacher!. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions Present A Tom Cruise Production
Executive Producers are Jake Myers, Ken Kamins, Kevin Messick, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake. Produced by Tom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Gary Levinsohn...
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher and Robert Duvall is Cash in this new photo from Jack Reacher, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen . ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: .Get Jack Reacher!. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions Present A Tom Cruise Production
Executive Producers are Jake Myers, Ken Kamins, Kevin Messick, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake. Produced by Tom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Gary Levinsohn...
- 8/22/2012
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo credit: Karen Ballard (c) 2012 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
A first international trailer for director Christopher McQuarrie’s Jack Reacher has appeared online. Starring Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, the film is from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reacher.”. Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense are immensely relived; but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused’s request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man’s guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for.
From the novel by Lee Child, the film also features Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, and Robert Duvall.
A first international trailer for director Christopher McQuarrie’s Jack Reacher has appeared online. Starring Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, the film is from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reacher.”. Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense are immensely relived; but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused’s request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man’s guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for.
From the novel by Lee Child, the film also features Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, and Robert Duvall.
- 7/1/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's no surprise that Philip Kaufman -- perhaps the most European of American filmmakers -- was drawn to the passionate story of Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Kaufman is a consummate adapter of complex novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Right Stuff, as well as a portraitist of literary powerhouses like Henry Miller (Henry and June) and the Marquis de Sade (Quills).
Karen Ballard/HBO
Hemingway & Gellhorn is having a world premiere in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival before its HBO broadcast May 28. Starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman as the feisty journalist who became Ernest Hemingway's third wife, it's a thematically ambitious, visually rich and superbly acted motion picture. (Kaufman is also being honored in Cannes with the invitation to give the "Master Class." Among those who have previously been accorded this prestigious presentation are Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Stephen Frears.
Karen Ballard/HBO
Hemingway & Gellhorn is having a world premiere in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival before its HBO broadcast May 28. Starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman as the feisty journalist who became Ernest Hemingway's third wife, it's a thematically ambitious, visually rich and superbly acted motion picture. (Kaufman is also being honored in Cannes with the invitation to give the "Master Class." Among those who have previously been accorded this prestigious presentation are Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Stephen Frears.
- 5/24/2012
- by Annette Insdorf
- Aol TV.
Brian Hamill. From the film .Raging Bull.. Courtesy of United Artists, 1979.
Beverly Hills, CA - More than 115 images shot on the sets of such films as “Raging Bull,” “Munich,” “You, Me & Dupree,” “Rendition,” “Salt” and “Superman Returns” will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. new exhibition, “Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts,” opening Friday, September 9, in the Academy.s Grand Lobby Gallery. The exhibition, open to the public, will run through Sunday, December 18. Admission is free.
Shot by 25 members of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers, “Crew Call 2011″ will include photographs depicting the work of numerous, and essential, ‘below-the-line’ craftspeople on a movie set, from animal wranglers, puppeteers, makeup artists, seamstresses, stunt performers and prop masters to grips, gaffers and P.A.s. Several images show how production design and visual effects departments work preparing sets and staging action sequences, and provide glimpses...
Beverly Hills, CA - More than 115 images shot on the sets of such films as “Raging Bull,” “Munich,” “You, Me & Dupree,” “Rendition,” “Salt” and “Superman Returns” will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. new exhibition, “Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts,” opening Friday, September 9, in the Academy.s Grand Lobby Gallery. The exhibition, open to the public, will run through Sunday, December 18. Admission is free.
Shot by 25 members of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers, “Crew Call 2011″ will include photographs depicting the work of numerous, and essential, ‘below-the-line’ craftspeople on a movie set, from animal wranglers, puppeteers, makeup artists, seamstresses, stunt performers and prop masters to grips, gaffers and P.A.s. Several images show how production design and visual effects departments work preparing sets and staging action sequences, and provide glimpses...
- 8/23/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
HollywoodNews.com: More than 115 images shot on the sets of such films as “Raging Bull,” “Munich,” “You, Me & Dupree,” “Rendition,” “Salt” and “Superman Returns” will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts,” opening Friday, September 9, in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery. The exhibition, open to the public, will run through Sunday, December 18. Admission is free.
Shot by 25 members of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers, “Crew Call 2011″ will include photographs depicting the work of numerous, and essential, ‘below-the-line’ craftspeople on a movie set, from animal wranglers, puppeteers, makeup artists, seamstresses, stunt performers and prop masters to grips, gaffers and P.A.s. Several images show how production design and visual effects departments work preparing sets and staging action sequences, and provide glimpses of how the magic of the movies is achieved during long days and nights of shooting.
Shot by 25 members of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers, “Crew Call 2011″ will include photographs depicting the work of numerous, and essential, ‘below-the-line’ craftspeople on a movie set, from animal wranglers, puppeteers, makeup artists, seamstresses, stunt performers and prop masters to grips, gaffers and P.A.s. Several images show how production design and visual effects departments work preparing sets and staging action sequences, and provide glimpses of how the magic of the movies is achieved during long days and nights of shooting.
- 8/23/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – Seeing them all together was fun. Enduring some macho joshing, even in the form of stiff dialogue, was tolerable. But doing a bad, boring action movie with Sylvester Stallone trying to prop up his “legacy” was sadly too much to bear. Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among “The Expendables.”
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is the leader of a mercenary force, and the film opens with an intervention on a ship that’s been pirated. His force, which includes his right hand man Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Ying Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Gunner (Dolph Lundgren), is introduced, and although they take care of the situation, Gunner goes rogue and Barney is looking for the next big job. He even commiserates with his best pal, Tool (Mickey Rourke).
The next gig comes in the form of Bruce Willis,...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is the leader of a mercenary force, and the film opens with an intervention on a ship that’s been pirated. His force, which includes his right hand man Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Ying Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Gunner (Dolph Lundgren), is introduced, and although they take care of the situation, Gunner goes rogue and Barney is looking for the next big job. He even commiserates with his best pal, Tool (Mickey Rourke).
The next gig comes in the form of Bruce Willis,...
- 8/13/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – This 14-image slideshow contains all of the official press images for the highly anticipated “The Expendables,” starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, David Zayas, Eric Roberts, Steve Austin, and Mickey Rourke. The film was written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone and directed by Stallone. It will be released on August 13th, 2010.
Synopsis: “The only life they’ve known is war. The only loyalty they have is to each other.
They are the Expendables: leader and mastermind Barney Ross (Stallone), former Sas blade expert Lee Christmas (Statham), hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang (Li), long barrel weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Crews), demolitions expert Toll Road (Couture), and precision sniper Gunner Jensen (Lundgren). Living life in the fringes of the law, these hardened mercenaries take on what appears to be a routine assignment: a covert, CIA-funded operation to infiltrate the South American country of...
Synopsis: “The only life they’ve known is war. The only loyalty they have is to each other.
They are the Expendables: leader and mastermind Barney Ross (Stallone), former Sas blade expert Lee Christmas (Statham), hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang (Li), long barrel weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Crews), demolitions expert Toll Road (Couture), and precision sniper Gunner Jensen (Lundgren). Living life in the fringes of the law, these hardened mercenaries take on what appears to be a routine assignment: a covert, CIA-funded operation to infiltrate the South American country of...
- 8/13/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The gratitude lists emailed among friends and families this Thanksgiving are lovely and thoughtful, expressing heartfelt appreciation for food, shelter, health, friends, family, babies' smiles, rainbows, Mom's lasagna, all that good stuff. The only problem is, when mentioned in the same breath as Mom and rainbows, offering thanks for the genius of Netflix looks pretty puny. But not here: Here's where movie lovers can offer up movie love in the spirit of the holiday. I'll go first: 1. Thanks to great American actors whose appearances invigorate every movie they're in. My choice trio: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Jeffrey Wright,...
- 11/29/2009
- by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
Chicago – Ed Zwick’s “Defiance” is a dramatically inert film that misses the mark by allowing its director to play up his notable weaknesses as a filmmaker. Neither satisfying as the action-driven entertainment that Zwick likes to make nor as an emotional historical epic, “Defiance” is flat and dull, only mildly redeemed by two strong lead performances and the inherent power of its subject matter.
Rating: 2.5/5.0 Zwick continues his pattern of falling back on the crutches of the typical action movie - slow motion, rising strings, bombastic explosions, melodramatic monologues - but, once again, he uses them to hold up a plot with inherent dramatic power, thinking that the importance of his subject matter will give his film a weight that he can not. “Blood Diamond,” “The Siege,” “The Last Samurai” - Zwick values epic scope over all else and misses what needed to be a human story to be effective.
Rating: 2.5/5.0 Zwick continues his pattern of falling back on the crutches of the typical action movie - slow motion, rising strings, bombastic explosions, melodramatic monologues - but, once again, he uses them to hold up a plot with inherent dramatic power, thinking that the importance of his subject matter will give his film a weight that he can not. “Blood Diamond,” “The Siege,” “The Last Samurai” - Zwick values epic scope over all else and misses what needed to be a human story to be effective.
- 1/16/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Paramount Pictures has released official images, cast rosters, and synopsis information for the first half of their impressive 2009 slate of feature releases.
The 2009 Paramount films with available production stills include “Hotel For Dogs,” “Defiance,” “The Uninvited,” “I Love You, Man,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “The Soloist,” “The Goods: The Don Ready Story,” “Star Trek,” “Imagine That,” and “Dance Flick”.
“Hotel For Dogs”
Release date: January 16th, 2009
Cast: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle
Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
Written by: Jeff Lowell and Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle
Synopsis:”Hotel for Dogs” stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use...
The 2009 Paramount films with available production stills include “Hotel For Dogs,” “Defiance,” “The Uninvited,” “I Love You, Man,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “The Soloist,” “The Goods: The Don Ready Story,” “Star Trek,” “Imagine That,” and “Dance Flick”.
“Hotel For Dogs”
Release date: January 16th, 2009
Cast: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle
Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
Written by: Jeff Lowell and Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle
Synopsis:”Hotel for Dogs” stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use...
- 1/6/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – With “Quantum of Solace” opening today starring Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench and Olga Kurylenko, Jeff Bayer’s The Scorecard Review (a partner with HollywoodChicago.com) has published its list of the top seven James Bond gadgets.
Olga Kurylenko in “Quantum of Solace”.
Image credit: Susie Allnutt
Who would James Bond be without his cool gadgets? Sure, he would still be a great spy with a license to kill, but would there be 22 movies about the man?
Bond fans remember the old films when Q would introduce some new gadgets with each new installment. While Q may be missing in the latest films, Bond still has some slick tools. While even some of Bond’s adversaries dabble in gadgetry, this list will be strictly MI6.
Bond (Daniel Craig) shields Camille (Olga Kurylenko) in “Quantum of Solace” and fires at a fuel cell as flames engulf Medrano’s suite at Perla De Las Dunas.
Olga Kurylenko in “Quantum of Solace”.
Image credit: Susie Allnutt
Who would James Bond be without his cool gadgets? Sure, he would still be a great spy with a license to kill, but would there be 22 movies about the man?
Bond fans remember the old films when Q would introduce some new gadgets with each new installment. While Q may be missing in the latest films, Bond still has some slick tools. While even some of Bond’s adversaries dabble in gadgetry, this list will be strictly MI6.
Bond (Daniel Craig) shields Camille (Olga Kurylenko) in “Quantum of Solace” and fires at a fuel cell as flames engulf Medrano’s suite at Perla De Las Dunas.
- 11/14/2008
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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