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Wesley Snipes Back in Action in ‘Game of Death’
8 October 2009 7:16 AM, PDT
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Don't call it a comeback for Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara, they've been here for years. Of course, it's been a long time since they've been at the top of their games -- notably in 1990, when they teamed up to deliver the cult hit King of New York.
Since then they've chosen different paths. Snipes went on to become a major action star of the 90s (and beyond) with films such as Passenger 57, The Fan and the Blade trilogy. He's been off his game since about 2005 due to some off-camera tax problems. Ferrara, on the other hand, has been off his game for much longer than that. He followed King of New York with several solid efforst over the next four years, including Bad Lieutenent, a not quite awesome horror remake Bodysnatchers and the Harvel Keitel and Madonna led pic Dangerous Game. But he's been far from the spotlight ever since. Perhaps
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- Neil Miller
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Q&A: Master Director Tony Scott Offers One Helluva Ride With The Taking of Pelham 123
16 July 2009 3:15 PM, PDT
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It seems everyday, some controversy about the subway makes it in the papers, whether it's about good new leadership or bad old leadership; whether it's about the list of best trains or worst trains or about the rates going up. But of all the events kicking up subway-related scuttlebutt, the recent release of a re-invented The Taking of Pelham 123 stirred the least ire and gave a lot of rears in the seatsquite a ride as Denzel Washington's Walter Garber--a tainted Mta executive--is forced to negotiate over the lives of a subway car full of hostages with John Travolta's Ryder, a hard-assed ex-con determined to score big time.
In covering this film, a bunch of journos who got to speak with veteran British director Tony Scott--he has made many movies including Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy of
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- Brad Balfour
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Big Fan Trailer Starring Patton Oswalt
7 July 2009 9:52 AM, PDT
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After writing the script for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, Robert Siegel makes his directorial debut with Big Fan, a dark character study about an obsessed football fan who gets beaten up by his favourite player. This is a movie I've been really looking forward to, and I was completely bummed that we weren't able to catch it at Sundance earlier this year. Fortunately, it was picked up for distribution by First Independent Pictures, and they will be releasing it in select theatres next month.
The first trailer has arrived online this week and I think it looks pretty intriguing. The movie stars Patton Oswalt in the lead role, and he has been getting a lot of praise for his performance. Obviously with Oswalt there is an expectation for it to be a comedy, but as the trailer indicates there is very little humour here at all. The supporting cast
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- Sean
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