Dean Israelite Tapped To Direct Thriller ‘Can You Hear Me?’ For Hartbeat, The Hideaway Entertainment
Exclusive: Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and The Hideaway Entertainment will partner to produce Can You Hear Me?, a new thriller scripted by Taylor Anthony Hopkins (The Last Reverie) and Luke Kelly-Clyne. Set to direct the pic, which is currently casting, is Emmy and DGA Award nominee Dean Israelite (Little Wing).
Can You Hear Me? follows a telephone scammer who learns that his nephew has been kidnapped and must collect a sum of money to get him back. Financed by The Hideaway Entertainment, the film’s producers are Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley, Patricia Braga and Luke Kelly-Clyne for Hartbeat, along with Jonathan Gray, Matthew Rhodes and Kristy Grisham for The Hideaway. Ty Walker and Kevin Healey are exec producing for Hartbeat, along with Ryan Cassells for The Hideaway. Jen Cox serves as co-producer, with production to kick off this summer.
“‘Can You Hear Me?’ furthers Hartbeat’s commitment to...
Can You Hear Me? follows a telephone scammer who learns that his nephew has been kidnapped and must collect a sum of money to get him back. Financed by The Hideaway Entertainment, the film’s producers are Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley, Patricia Braga and Luke Kelly-Clyne for Hartbeat, along with Jonathan Gray, Matthew Rhodes and Kristy Grisham for The Hideaway. Ty Walker and Kevin Healey are exec producing for Hartbeat, along with Ryan Cassells for The Hideaway. Jen Cox serves as co-producer, with production to kick off this summer.
“‘Can You Hear Me?’ furthers Hartbeat’s commitment to...
- 1/31/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix will follow along Chris Rock and Kevin Hart for a week as they perform in four sold-out New York shows in a new documentary, the streamer announced Wednesday.
“Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only,” which will premiere Dec. 12 on Netflix, will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look into the comedians’ combined tour. Fans will go back to the beginning as Hart and Rock “give firsthand accounts of their early lives, struggles, triumphs and their unbreakable brotherhood,” according to the official logline.
“This is a story about two separate journeys, but somehow align and end up at the same intersection at the top,” Hart said in the documentary’s teaser. “I said, ‘why don’t we do something together — what do you think about doing New York?'”
“I’m excited for this week, not just because of the arena factor,” Hart continued, while Rock added, “I’m just excited to hang out with you!
“Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only,” which will premiere Dec. 12 on Netflix, will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look into the comedians’ combined tour. Fans will go back to the beginning as Hart and Rock “give firsthand accounts of their early lives, struggles, triumphs and their unbreakable brotherhood,” according to the official logline.
“This is a story about two separate journeys, but somehow align and end up at the same intersection at the top,” Hart said in the documentary’s teaser. “I said, ‘why don’t we do something together — what do you think about doing New York?'”
“I’m excited for this week, not just because of the arena factor,” Hart continued, while Rock added, “I’m just excited to hang out with you!
- 10/18/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Kevin Hart and Chris Rock embarked on a stand-up tour together last year.
The duo did five shows – Rock Hart: Only Headliners Allowed – across New York and New Jersey last July.
Netflix will now air a documentary following the pair on this tour. The doc – Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only will air on December 12.
The doc will go behind the scenes of the tour and follow the pair as they give first-hand accounts of their early lives, struggles, triumphs and their brotherhood. It is directed by Hip Hop Uncovered director Rashidi Harper.
Hart, Bryan Smiley, and Luke Kelly-Clyne will produce for Hartbeat, Rock for Cr Enterprises and Malcolm Spellman, Oby M. Okoye, and Rashidi Harper for The 51B.
Thai Randolph, Jeff Clanagan, Mike Stein, Dave Becky, and Kevin Healey will exec produce with Jc Del Barco and Ty Walker serving as co-executive producers.
CAA Media Finance and UTA brokered...
The duo did five shows – Rock Hart: Only Headliners Allowed – across New York and New Jersey last July.
Netflix will now air a documentary following the pair on this tour. The doc – Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only will air on December 12.
The doc will go behind the scenes of the tour and follow the pair as they give first-hand accounts of their early lives, struggles, triumphs and their brotherhood. It is directed by Hip Hop Uncovered director Rashidi Harper.
Hart, Bryan Smiley, and Luke Kelly-Clyne will produce for Hartbeat, Rock for Cr Enterprises and Malcolm Spellman, Oby M. Okoye, and Rashidi Harper for The 51B.
Thai Randolph, Jeff Clanagan, Mike Stein, Dave Becky, and Kevin Healey will exec produce with Jc Del Barco and Ty Walker serving as co-executive producers.
CAA Media Finance and UTA brokered...
- 10/18/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
While we wait for Lulu Wilson’s return as a teenage Nazi-slayer in The Wrath of Becky, Deadline reports today that Wilson will also be starring in the upcoming film Xeno.
Omari Hardwick (Power) and Trae Romano (Stargirl) are also on board. Matthew Loren Oates (Farewell Bender) wrote the script and is directing Xeno.
In the film, “a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.”
Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne will produce for Hartbeat, alongside Oates and Shana Marie, with Thai Randolph, Kevin Healey and Ty Walker exec producing for Hartbeat.
Deadline also notes that The Henson Company will build the film’s alien creature!
Lulu Wilson got her own John Wick with the Becky franchise...
Omari Hardwick (Power) and Trae Romano (Stargirl) are also on board. Matthew Loren Oates (Farewell Bender) wrote the script and is directing Xeno.
In the film, “a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.”
Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne will produce for Hartbeat, alongside Oates and Shana Marie, with Thai Randolph, Kevin Healey and Ty Walker exec producing for Hartbeat.
Deadline also notes that The Henson Company will build the film’s alien creature!
Lulu Wilson got her own John Wick with the Becky franchise...
- 4/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Annabelle: Creation and Becky star Lulu Wilson, who is soon to be seen in The Wrath of Becky, has signed on to star in the alien invasion film Xeno for writer, director, and VFX Artist Matthew Loren Oates. Deadline reports that Wilson is joined in the cast by Omari Hardwick (Power) and Trae Romano (Stargirl).
Set to start filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 8th, Xeno will see Wilson taking on the role of a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.
Kevin Hart is producing the film through his company Hartbeat. Hartbeat’s Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne are also producing, alongside Oates and Shana Marie. Thai Randolph, Kevin Healey, and Ty Walker serve as executive producers for Hartbeat,...
Set to start filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 8th, Xeno will see Wilson taking on the role of a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.
Kevin Hart is producing the film through his company Hartbeat. Hartbeat’s Bryan Smiley and Luke Kelly-Clyne are also producing, alongside Oates and Shana Marie. Thai Randolph, Kevin Healey, and Ty Walker serve as executive producers for Hartbeat,...
- 4/28/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Lulu Wilson (The Wrath of Becky), Omari Hardwick (Power) and Trae Romano (Stargirl) are set to star in Xeno, a new film that writer, director and VFX Artist Matthew Loren Oates (Farewell Bender) will direct for Kevin Hart‘s Hartbeat, from his own script.
In the film poised to enter production in Albuquerque on May 8th, a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.
The Xeno announcement follows news that Hartbeat is developing the comedy The Backup, produced by and starring Keke Palmer, for Universal Pictures, as well as a feature adaptation of Danielle Nicolet’s short Black Karen, which emerged from Nicolet’s time as part of Hartbeat’s Women Write Now screenwriting fellowship.
Kevin Hart,...
In the film poised to enter production in Albuquerque on May 8th, a teenage girl befriends a terrifying alien that crash-lands in the desert near her home. As government agents close in, the girl protects her dangerous new companion while also dealing with her depressed mother and the mother’s abusive boyfriend.
The Xeno announcement follows news that Hartbeat is developing the comedy The Backup, produced by and starring Keke Palmer, for Universal Pictures, as well as a feature adaptation of Danielle Nicolet’s short Black Karen, which emerged from Nicolet’s time as part of Hartbeat’s Women Write Now screenwriting fellowship.
Kevin Hart,...
- 4/28/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Die Hart saw Kevin Hart living his dream of being an action hero in the hit comedy series that started as a launch title for the failed Quibi streaming service. The show found a new home at The Roku Channel, and much like Cobra Kai, it found new life as a success on a wider streaming platform. The show was renewed with a sequel season titled Die Hart 2: Die Harter. That season became a hit when it premiered on Roku, so prepare for season 3 which could very well follow with the title Die Hart with a Vengeance.
Deadline reports that Die Hart 2: Die Harter premiered to record numbers on The Roku Channel, which has led to a season 3 renewal. Season 2 became the No. 1 Roku Original TV series weekend premiere of all time by both unique views and streaming hour engagement. Hart released a statement that said, “Die Hart...
Deadline reports that Die Hart 2: Die Harter premiered to record numbers on The Roku Channel, which has led to a season 3 renewal. Season 2 became the No. 1 Roku Original TV series weekend premiere of all time by both unique views and streaming hour engagement. Hart released a statement that said, “Die Hart...
- 4/13/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Kevin Hart‘s comedy series Die Hart has been renewed for a third season at Roku on the heels of a record-breaking premiere weekend for Season 2.
Die Hart 2: Die Harter debuted on March 31, nearly doubling the first season’s opening weekend audience. It became the No. 1 Roku Original TV series weekend premiere of all time by both unique views and streaming hour engagement, according to the streamer.
“Die Hart is one of my favorite projects to act in and produce. I am so excited to get back to set to shoot season three,” Hart said in a statement Thursday. “My fans are the best and their reaction to season two fuels Hartbeat to keep raising the bar on this show. Watch out for what comes next, we are going bigger and better!!”
In Die Hart 2: Die Harter, Kevin now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time,...
Die Hart 2: Die Harter debuted on March 31, nearly doubling the first season’s opening weekend audience. It became the No. 1 Roku Original TV series weekend premiere of all time by both unique views and streaming hour engagement, according to the streamer.
“Die Hart is one of my favorite projects to act in and produce. I am so excited to get back to set to shoot season three,” Hart said in a statement Thursday. “My fans are the best and their reaction to season two fuels Hartbeat to keep raising the bar on this show. Watch out for what comes next, we are going bigger and better!!”
In Die Hart 2: Die Harter, Kevin now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time,...
- 4/13/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Hart’s “Die Hart 2: Die Harter” has added John Cena, Ben Schwartz and Paula Pell to its cast. Additionally, Nathalie Emmanuel is set to return to the series.
“Die Hart” and the upcoming second season follow Hart as he plays a fictional version of himself. Tired of being the comedic sidekick, he decides to train at an action school to become a leading man.
The second season of the Roku comedy began production on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Here’s a logline for Season 2, which includes more about the new roles: “After achieving his dream of becoming a bona fide action hero in ‘Die Hart,’ Kevin Hart now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time. He’s developed a concept for a revolutionary movie where the action is so unscripted and unexpected that even Kevin won’t know what’s coming next. But...
“Die Hart” and the upcoming second season follow Hart as he plays a fictional version of himself. Tired of being the comedic sidekick, he decides to train at an action school to become a leading man.
The second season of the Roku comedy began production on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Here’s a logline for Season 2, which includes more about the new roles: “After achieving his dream of becoming a bona fide action hero in ‘Die Hart,’ Kevin Hart now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time. He’s developed a concept for a revolutionary movie where the action is so unscripted and unexpected that even Kevin won’t know what’s coming next. But...
- 9/21/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Kevin Hart’s “Die Hart” action-hero spoof is bringing in some fresh faces for Season 2 of the Roku original comedy: John Cena, Ben Schwartz and Paula Pell have joined the cast of “Die Hart 2: Die Harter,” the streaming company announced.
In addition to the new cast, Nathalie Emmanuel will reprise her role in Season 2. Eric Appel returns to direct with Tripper Clancy returning as writer. Production of “Die Hart 2: Die Harter” has begun in Atlanta. The series will stream free (with ads) on the Roku Channel but a premiere date has not been set.
In “Die Hart” Season 1, which co-starred John Travolta, Hart played a fictionalized version of himself who ultimately achieved his dream of becoming a bona-fide action hero. In the second season, Hart now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time. He’s developed a concept for a revolutionary movie...
In addition to the new cast, Nathalie Emmanuel will reprise her role in Season 2. Eric Appel returns to direct with Tripper Clancy returning as writer. Production of “Die Hart 2: Die Harter” has begun in Atlanta. The series will stream free (with ads) on the Roku Channel but a premiere date has not been set.
In “Die Hart” Season 1, which co-starred John Travolta, Hart played a fictionalized version of himself who ultimately achieved his dream of becoming a bona-fide action hero. In the second season, Hart now wants to cement his legacy as the greatest action star of all time. He’s developed a concept for a revolutionary movie...
- 9/21/2022
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
The feature film lineup at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival has been unveiled, featuring 118 films. Among the highly-anticipated premieres we have Josephine Decker’s Shirley, Miranda July’s Kajillionaire, Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson Is Dead, Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor, Julie Taymor’s The Glorias, Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, Sean Durkin’s The Nest, Michael Almereyda’s Tesla, Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy, and more.
Check out the list below and return for our coverage from January 23-February 2, 2020.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Farewell, Honey Boy, Clemency, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You and The Miseducation of Cameron Post. 47% of the directors in this year’s U.
Check out the list below and return for our coverage from January 23-February 2, 2020.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Farewell, Honey Boy, Clemency, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You and The Miseducation of Cameron Post. 47% of the directors in this year’s U.
- 12/4/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: MacRo is on board to finance and produce Blast Beat, a drama which is being directed by Esteban Arango, who also co-wrote the piece with Erick Castrillon. Moises Arias (Five Feet Apart) and Mateo Arias (Kickin’ It) are attached as the leads with Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS) and singer Kali Uchis confirmed to co-star. Daniel Dae Kim (The Good Doctor) is nearing a deal to join the film.
MacRo’s Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks are producing the project with Erick Castrillon and Ty Walker. It’s described as an energetic, youth-driven, metal-blasting coming of age story that follows two Colombian brothers as they adjust to life in the Us of A.
Greta Fuentes and Yira Vilaro will serve as executive producers on behalf of MacRo.
The Arias brothers are repped by Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Associate and Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg. Valderrama is repped by UTA and Silver Lining...
MacRo’s Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks are producing the project with Erick Castrillon and Ty Walker. It’s described as an energetic, youth-driven, metal-blasting coming of age story that follows two Colombian brothers as they adjust to life in the Us of A.
Greta Fuentes and Yira Vilaro will serve as executive producers on behalf of MacRo.
The Arias brothers are repped by Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Associate and Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg. Valderrama is repped by UTA and Silver Lining...
- 8/20/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
The Performer | Regina King
The Show | The Leftovers
The Episode | “Lens” (Nov. 8, 2015)
The Performance | We know we sound like a broken record, going on the way we do about The Leftovers. But if you watch the show, you understand. And if you don’t, not only should you, but you oughta get used to our praise, because both the drama and its stars are just. That. Good. Take, for example, King’s tour de force this week.
At first, the actress showed us the Erika that we already knew and admired, a woman as solid as the rock that Nora...
The Show | The Leftovers
The Episode | “Lens” (Nov. 8, 2015)
The Performance | We know we sound like a broken record, going on the way we do about The Leftovers. But if you watch the show, you understand. And if you don’t, not only should you, but you oughta get used to our praise, because both the drama and its stars are just. That. Good. Take, for example, King’s tour de force this week.
At first, the actress showed us the Erika that we already knew and admired, a woman as solid as the rock that Nora...
- 11/14/2015
- TVLine.com
Toni Collette, Tracy Letts ("Homeland") and Sam Trammell ("True Blood") have joined the Daniel Ragussis-directed thriller "Imperium" at Lionsgate Premiere. Shooting is underway in Virginia.
The story follows an FBI special agent (Daniel Radcliffe) who specializes in domestic terrorism and covert operations. He goes undercover and joins a white supremacist group in order to expose a sizable terrorist plot to create a bomb.
Collette portrays a veteran battle-hardened colleague, Letts plays a leader of the white supremacy movement and Trammell a seemingly normal suburban dad who is also the local Aryan youth recruiter.
Ragussis and former FBI agent Mike German penned the script while Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique are producing.
Source: Variety...
The story follows an FBI special agent (Daniel Radcliffe) who specializes in domestic terrorism and covert operations. He goes undercover and joins a white supremacist group in order to expose a sizable terrorist plot to create a bomb.
Collette portrays a veteran battle-hardened colleague, Letts plays a leader of the white supremacy movement and Trammell a seemingly normal suburban dad who is also the local Aryan youth recruiter.
Ragussis and former FBI agent Mike German penned the script while Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique are producing.
Source: Variety...
- 10/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Daniel Radcliffe will be going undercover in a new FBI thriller Imperium
Radcliffe will star as a young FBI agent trying to stop the terrorist plot of white supremacists, Deadline reports
The Atomic Features and Tycor International Film Company movie is based on the experiences of Michael German, who has co-written the script with director Daniel Ragussis.
German spent years inside Us neo-Nazi and militia groups as an undercover FBI agent.
Imperium is the feature debut of Dagussis, and is being produced by Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique.
Filming for Imperium is scheduled to begin later this year...
Radcliffe will star as a young FBI agent trying to stop the terrorist plot of white supremacists, Deadline reports
The Atomic Features and Tycor International Film Company movie is based on the experiences of Michael German, who has co-written the script with director Daniel Ragussis.
German spent years inside Us neo-Nazi and militia groups as an undercover FBI agent.
Imperium is the feature debut of Dagussis, and is being produced by Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique.
Filming for Imperium is scheduled to begin later this year...
- 8/2/2015
- Digital Spy
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has scored the lead role in the true story terrorism thriller "Imperium" from Atomic Features and Tycor International Film Company.
Radcliffe will star as a young FBI agent who goes undercover to find and stop white supremacists trying to make a dirty bomb. The script is co-written by Michael German, an FBI undercover agent who spent years inside United States neo-Nazi and militia groups.
Short filmmaker Daniel Ragussis makes his feature directorial debut on the project which will begin shooting this Fall. Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique are producing.
Source: Deadline...
Radcliffe will star as a young FBI agent who goes undercover to find and stop white supremacists trying to make a dirty bomb. The script is co-written by Michael German, an FBI undercover agent who spent years inside United States neo-Nazi and militia groups.
Short filmmaker Daniel Ragussis makes his feature directorial debut on the project which will begin shooting this Fall. Ty Walker, Dennis Lee and Simon Taufique are producing.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/30/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With "Justified" over (here's my series finale review), I got on the phone with showrunner Graham Yost to discuss why certain characters lived, others died, and which characters (Mags? Quarles?) he might have brought back under different circumstances, all coming up just as soon as I come back here with a jackhammer... I want to start with the hat, because I know it was one of the few significant creative disagreements you ever had with Elmore (Leonard). At what point did you decide you wanted Raylan to end the series wearing the smaller Stetson that met with his approval? Graham Yost: Pretty early on in the season, we knew we wanted to create a character who really modeled himself after Raylan to one degree or another, and he would get a hat, and Raylan would end up with the bad guy's hat. It's still not a perfect match for what Elmore wanted,...
- 4/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Last night's Justified, the aptly titled "Dark As a Dungeon," started with its hero removing every trace of his late father from the family home, then burning the old man’s Vietnam keepsakes. The emotional peak of this sequence was a low-angled shot with flames in the foreground and Raylan in the middleground; looming over Raylan's shoulder was the family home the hero had previously told Ty Walker that he didn't want to sell. He’s not just deciding to get over the past. He’s symbolically annihilating it. For a character that has been defined, often against his will, by his troubled childhood, his experience in the mines, and the history of Harlan County and its various feuds, this was a very big deal.It was also a fitting start for an episode that — more so than other Justifieds, and that's saying a lot — was about the effect of...
- 3/11/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Justified, Season 6, Episode 8: “Dark as a Dungeon”
Written by Chris Provenzano and VJ Boyd
Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Mind what you wish for. One of the weaknesses of the last season and a half of Justified has been its lack of focus on its ostensible hero: Raylan Givens. Sure, Timothy Olyphant has received no shortage of chances to crack wise and gun down baddies, but since the end of the fourth season, which saw him literally kick back near the freshly interred corpse of his asshole father Arlo, we’ve spent next to no time alone with Raylan, and the lack of Winona has meant that there’s been no one left on the series who knows how to cut through his taciturn ways – or even care enough to try.
So it’s encouraging when “Dark as a Dungeon” opens with Raylan,...
Written by Chris Provenzano and VJ Boyd
Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Mind what you wish for. One of the weaknesses of the last season and a half of Justified has been its lack of focus on its ostensible hero: Raylan Givens. Sure, Timothy Olyphant has received no shortage of chances to crack wise and gun down baddies, but since the end of the fourth season, which saw him literally kick back near the freshly interred corpse of his asshole father Arlo, we’ve spent next to no time alone with Raylan, and the lack of Winona has meant that there’s been no one left on the series who knows how to cut through his taciturn ways – or even care enough to try.
So it’s encouraging when “Dark as a Dungeon” opens with Raylan,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as I interrupt a goat sacrifice... "The past is a statement. The future is a question." -Raylan "The past and the future are a fight to the death." -Ava We're now in the second half of this final "Justified" season, and almost everyone has one eye on the way out of Harlan. Raylan is finally taking real steps to unload the haunted(*) family home, including having the remains of his father, mother and stepmother disinterred. Ty Walker nearly talks Boyd and Ava into helping him rob Markham's vault so they can all get the hell out of town, and the reward they get for helping Raylan kill Walker seems like plenty of getaway money to Ava, if not Boyd. (*) On the one hand, having your hero argue with his dad's ghost seems really low on the What Would Elmore Do?...
- 3/11/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
‘It Follows’ is fun and gorgeously moody
Is David Robert Mitchell’s atmospheric horror film It Follows parody? Its ambiguous decade could be the heyday of ‘80s American horror, replete with tube TVs, a very retro-looking aboveground pool, and costuming that’s very Blue Velvet. But then there’s a reading device that looks like a rather chic Kindle… read the full article.
‘Chappie’ is gloriously bonkers
Writer-director Neill Blomkamp pushes all his chips onto the table with this fascinating sci-fi gamble that dares you not to be entertained. Derivative, ultra-violent, and completely baffling, Chappie also manages to be insightful and sweet at times. This technically-accomplished and thematically-suspect robot melodrama has something for everyone to love (and hate). Mostly, it offers the giddy exhilaration of a movie that’s determined to tell its story, no matter how bat-shit crazy it is… click here to read the full article.
John Osborne...
Is David Robert Mitchell’s atmospheric horror film It Follows parody? Its ambiguous decade could be the heyday of ‘80s American horror, replete with tube TVs, a very retro-looking aboveground pool, and costuming that’s very Blue Velvet. But then there’s a reading device that looks like a rather chic Kindle… read the full article.
‘Chappie’ is gloriously bonkers
Writer-director Neill Blomkamp pushes all his chips onto the table with this fascinating sci-fi gamble that dares you not to be entertained. Derivative, ultra-violent, and completely baffling, Chappie also manages to be insightful and sweet at times. This technically-accomplished and thematically-suspect robot melodrama has something for everyone to love (and hate). Mostly, it offers the giddy exhilaration of a movie that’s determined to tell its story, no matter how bat-shit crazy it is… click here to read the full article.
John Osborne...
- 3/7/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Justified, Season 6, Episode 7: “The Hunt”
Written by Keith Schreier and Taylor Elmore
Directed by John Dahl
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
The precise midpoint of the final season, “The Hunt” is a slightly odd episode of Justified, one that sends the rest of the season into a slightly different (and slightly confusing) direction from what came before. For starters, it brings the surprise return of Natalie Zea, if only for one episode, when so many of us had come to expect that she’d only pop in for, say, the series finale. That means that for the entirety of the hour, Raylan completely ducks out of doing any kind of Marshal-y business or any other kind of dangerous tomfoolery, which might be a series first. That’s doubly strange given that there’s a Marshal manhunt underway for Ty Walker. Yes, you read that right: there’s...
Written by Keith Schreier and Taylor Elmore
Directed by John Dahl
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
The precise midpoint of the final season, “The Hunt” is a slightly odd episode of Justified, one that sends the rest of the season into a slightly different (and slightly confusing) direction from what came before. For starters, it brings the surprise return of Natalie Zea, if only for one episode, when so many of us had come to expect that she’d only pop in for, say, the series finale. That means that for the entirety of the hour, Raylan completely ducks out of doing any kind of Marshal-y business or any other kind of dangerous tomfoolery, which might be a series first. That’s doubly strange given that there’s a Marshal manhunt underway for Ty Walker. Yes, you read that right: there’s...
- 3/4/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as I'm an alcoholic porn addict with a full tank of gas... "You can be with me and still be you, if that's something you want." -Winona There have been a lot of full-circle moments in this final "Justified" season, as characters look back on old cases, or fights, or other moments they remember even better than we do, since they lived them. "The Hunt" focuses primarily on the once and potentially future love interests of our main hero and villain, and returns to familiar settings for discussion what happened, what's to come, and how much one partner in each relationship has to accept the true nature of the other. Raylan spends much of the hour taking some time away from the job to be with Winona and baby Willa, and if they're not staying in the exact motel room...
- 3/4/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Alas, poor Choo-Choo, we hardly knew ye, and then ye rode the train. I'm going to miss the towering, slow-witted henchman with the literally killer punch. He died this week in the ironically titled "Alive Day," which also happens to be the name of James Gandolfini's 2008 documentary about physically and emotionally wounded soldiers trying to adjust to life after combat. As I've said in other recaps here, this sixth and final season of Justified has nurtured a fruitful secondary theme about the war coming home, in one sense or another. "This ain't the Army anymore, top," Seabass tells Ty Walker, boss of the Tiger Hawk security men working for weed dealer Avery Markham. "You hired a bunch of mercs because they looked the shit in jungle fatigues," Raylan taunts Markham, right after dropping the news that somebody (very likely somebody he knows) killed his real-estate agent and tried to...
- 2/25/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as I come across a chupacabra... "Maybe this time, things end different." -Boyd Last week, I wrote that I looked forward to "seeing the very stupid way" in which Choo-Choo would died, thinking about the accidental demises of White Boy Bob in "Out of Sight," or Danny Crowe when he tried to test his 21-foot rule theory on Raylan last season. "Alive Day" appears to kill off our latest impulsive man of violence, who fails to get crushed by his namesake, but instead expires from wounds acquired in a shootout with Raylan, Tim, Ty Walker and some of Avery Markham's other mercs. And it's not just the method of Choo-Choo's death that's a surprise, but the tone of it. Introduced as perhaps the dumbest and strongest of the series' many dumb strong guys, he instead turns out to be someone...
- 2/25/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as I confuse Occam's Razor with Thor's hammer... "Didn't your momma ever tell you that there's always another snake?" -Art With "The Trash and the Snake," I'm tempted to bust out the old dayenu gimmick (last applied to this show with season 4's "Decoy") and be done with it, because this episode was oveflowing with moments and character interactions that on their own would have been enough to make a memorable episode. This one was so much fun — so full of all the people, things and events that have made "Justified" such a blast for so long — that it feels like it went past the legal limits for entertainment on a Tuesday night. Or, it did until Avery Markham and his people pay enough money to get an episode this good legalized right along with marijuana in the fine state of Kentucky.
- 2/11/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as you lead to unevenness in my facial tone... "Come to it, I guess you ain't all that big now. Grown, but still just playing pretend." -Avery Markham It likely doesn't come as much of a surprise when "Noblesse Oblige" reveals Avery Markham as the man pulling the strings of Ty Walker and company. The show wasn't going to bring Sam Elliott in just to smoke weed and be charming, and his old ties with Katherine Hale simultaneously simplifies this season's arc (because now we see how all the pieces are connected) and complicates it (because Katherine and Avery's relationship is dysfunctional even by "Justified" standards). Mainly, though, it's just a pleasure to watch Elliott work, sporting a different look than we're used to (not only clean-shaven, but with hair swept back, and in a slick suit and bolo tie...
- 2/4/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Ava Crowder is a woman caught in the middle as FX’s Justified unspools its farewell run.
On the one hand, she has bad boy Boyd Crowder laboring to keep her at his side, with the prospect of a final score that will seed their happy ending far away from Harlan. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, meanwhile, has the goods on Ava, having had her sprung from the hoosegow in trade for solidifying the Rico case against her estranged fiancé.
With the third episode of the final season’s 13-episode salvo airing tonight at 10/9c, TVLine invited Joelle Carter to...
On the one hand, she has bad boy Boyd Crowder laboring to keep her at his side, with the prospect of a final score that will seed their happy ending far away from Harlan. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, meanwhile, has the goods on Ava, having had her sprung from the hoosegow in trade for solidifying the Rico case against her estranged fiancé.
With the third episode of the final season’s 13-episode salvo airing tonight at 10/9c, TVLine invited Joelle Carter to...
- 2/3/2015
- TVLine.com
The sixth season of Justified keeps humming along with "Cash Game." Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd, and directed by Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest), the episode's crisp storytelling is reminiscent of the show's superior, even-numbered seasons, which laid out a series of parallel-seeming subplots that converged with wit and grace. Here we saw Boyd's bank robbery, Ava's informing on Boyd, the machinations of the big-bearded real-estate fixer Ty Walker, all converging. As was the case last week, we got the sense of an endgame in progress, not just for all the main characters' stories, but for Harlan County as established in the previous five seasons. Everything is changing; an old way of life is passing away. The obsession with land, ancestry, and old grudges always simmered in the background, but now it's in the foreground.The key scene might've been that conversation between Boyd and Raylan near the end...
- 1/28/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
A review of tonight's "Justified" coming up just as soon as we decide whether we're going to flapjack or short bus the bad guys... "You see, Raylan, I've learned to think without arguing with myself." -Boyd Like the Elmore Leonard stories that inspired the series, "Justified" has a tendency to have very complicated plots, with each season featuring multiple groups of villains pursuing different agendas that frequently intersect and cause headaches for each other and Raylan Givens. The trick is to make the villains entertaining enough that we don't mind doing the mental calculations about who's after what, or waiting through the cryptic early episodes until we find out everyone's angle. When the bad guys are, for instance, Quarles and Limehouse, then it's no big deal trying to untangle that season's Gordian plot; when it's Daryl Crowe, then you start to notice how contorted things are getting. Last week's season...
- 1/28/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Justified, Season 6, Episode 2: “Cash Game”
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
- 1/28/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The opening hour of Justified’s last rodeo ended on a note that felt very much like a mission statement for what to expect out of the final season. It wasn’t just enough to have Dewey, Harlan’s county jester, meet his maker in grisly fashion, but to have it be at the hands of Boyd, a character who, despite all his past transgressions, is still someone we can’t help but root for. While your mileage may vary as to what fate you think Boyd deserves, taking Dewey out of the equation could have marked a major tonal shift for the series. Every village needs an idiot, after all, so with Dewey gone, there came a question of how many of its final hours Justified wanted to devote to yucking things up.
“Cash Game” is a less impactful hour of Justified than the one that preceded it, but...
“Cash Game” is a less impactful hour of Justified than the one that preceded it, but...
- 1/28/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Justified: Episode 601 “Fate’s Right Hand” Directed by Michael Dinner – Written by Michael Dinner, Fred Golan, and Chris ProvenzanoIn the middle of the premiere of “Justified’s” final season premiere is sparked by an icy exchange between new fire starter Ty Walker (Garrett Dillahunt) and lead character Raylan Givens (Tim Olyphant) on the grounds of his late father’s home.Walker seems more assure of himself, but not like Robert Quarles. He doesn’t appear to misjudge his abilities like Daryl Crowe, but there’s heat between the two. Raylan has that effect on people. This particular standoff ends in a stalemate, as both […]...
- 1/21/2015
- by Ernie Estrella
- Monsters and Critics
"Justified" is back for its final season. I published some overall thoughts on the new episodes this morning, and I have a review of the premiere coming up just as soon as I tell you that carrying my underpants is important... "Fate's Right Hand" simultaneously points towards the end of the series while it looks back at the beginning. In the return and then murder of Dewey Crowe, it gives us both at once. Dewey was one of the very first bad guys Raylan met in his return to Kentucky, and the fact that the show is finally ready to stamp out the poor, stupid cockroach tells us how close the story is to wrapping up. If there's no longer any room for Dewey's antics, then things are about to get very dire indeed. We open the season, interestingly enough, not with anyone in Harlan or Lexington, but with Winona...
- 1/21/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Justified, Season 6, Episode 1: “Fate’s Right Hand”
Written by Michael Dinner, Fred Golan and Chris Provenzano
Directed by Michael Dinner
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Justified has looked and felt a little different with each new season, so it should perhaps be less surprising in retrospect that its fifth season was, once again, something new: a letdown. The series’ incredible writing team has been articulating variations on a narrow set of very old themes so gracefully for so long that, if anything, they deserve immense credit for their unlikely four-season streak of greatness. It wasn’t that the Crowe-family-centric fifth season was bad, per se – one could easily stitch together a potent highlight reel – it was more that it finally felt like the series was simply spinning its wheels for the first time. It’s the job of the series’ sixth and final season, then, to right...
Written by Michael Dinner, Fred Golan and Chris Provenzano
Directed by Michael Dinner
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Justified has looked and felt a little different with each new season, so it should perhaps be less surprising in retrospect that its fifth season was, once again, something new: a letdown. The series’ incredible writing team has been articulating variations on a narrow set of very old themes so gracefully for so long that, if anything, they deserve immense credit for their unlikely four-season streak of greatness. It wasn’t that the Crowe-family-centric fifth season was bad, per se – one could easily stitch together a potent highlight reel – it was more that it finally felt like the series was simply spinning its wheels for the first time. It’s the job of the series’ sixth and final season, then, to right...
- 1/21/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: Charles Dutton has joined Play Now Enterprises and Tycor International Film Company’s true-life story of the high school American football team.
Dutton will play the coach to the 1988 Carter High Cowboys, a formidable high school football team in Texas that overcame adversity to win the Texas State Championship.
However it is what happened after their championship season that rocked the world of sport.
Nine of the 18 Division 1 scholarship players went on to commit a string of robberies and every one was apprehended before the start of their freshman college season.
Former Carter High player Arthur Muhammad wrote the screenplay and has begun shooting Carter High in Texas.
As previously announced, the cast includes Vivica Fox as the coach’s wife, Pooch Hall and David Banner. Reginald C Hayes also stars.
Ty Walker, founder and CEO of Tycor International Film Company, produces with Kelly Gray, while former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis serves as executive producer.
Dutton will play the coach to the 1988 Carter High Cowboys, a formidable high school football team in Texas that overcame adversity to win the Texas State Championship.
However it is what happened after their championship season that rocked the world of sport.
Nine of the 18 Division 1 scholarship players went on to commit a string of robberies and every one was apprehended before the start of their freshman college season.
Former Carter High player Arthur Muhammad wrote the screenplay and has begun shooting Carter High in Texas.
As previously announced, the cast includes Vivica Fox as the coach’s wife, Pooch Hall and David Banner. Reginald C Hayes also stars.
Ty Walker, founder and CEO of Tycor International Film Company, produces with Kelly Gray, while former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis serves as executive producer.
- 8/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production on the remarkable true story starring Vivica Fox is set to kick off in Dallas, Texas, on July 21.
Ty Walker of Tycor International Film Company produces with Kelly Gray, while former Carter High football player Arthur Muhammad directs from his screenplay about events that according to Walker inspired Friday Night Lights.
Carter High centres on the 1988 Carter High Cowboys, a formidable high school football team in Texas that overcame adversity to win the Texas State Championship.
However it is what happened after their championship season that rocked the world of sport.
Nine of the 18 Division 1 scholarship players went on to commit a string of robberies and every one was apprehended before the start of their freshman college season.
The cast includes Pooch Hall and David Banner and former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis serves as executive producer.
Ty Walker of Tycor International Film Company produces with Kelly Gray, while former Carter High football player Arthur Muhammad directs from his screenplay about events that according to Walker inspired Friday Night Lights.
Carter High centres on the 1988 Carter High Cowboys, a formidable high school football team in Texas that overcame adversity to win the Texas State Championship.
However it is what happened after their championship season that rocked the world of sport.
Nine of the 18 Division 1 scholarship players went on to commit a string of robberies and every one was apprehended before the start of their freshman college season.
The cast includes Pooch Hall and David Banner and former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis serves as executive producer.
- 7/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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