by Sean Axmaker | Dec 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the fifth film in the big-screen franchise based on the sixties Cold War spy TV series, continues to spin its alternative to the James Bond brand of espionage thriller. Like the 007 films, they are...
by Danny Miller | Oct 24, 2014 | Interviews, What's Hot
I talked to two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner a few weeks ago about his great performance as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb in Michael Cuesta’s Kill the Messenger. As the film continues to open in more cities, I had the chance to talk to...
by Danny Miller | Oct 10, 2014 | Interviews, What's Hot
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in Kill the Messenger, a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. In the 1990s, Webb’s quest for the truth took him from the prisons of...
by James Rocchi | Jan 7, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast
Eric Singer, the co-writer of American Hustle (alongside director David O. Russell) joins The Lunch Podcast this week; after dining at Hugo’s in West Hollywood, Singer and host James Rocchi discussed everything from his childhood cinema ‘gateway...
by James Rocchi | Dec 4, 2013 | Reviews, What's Hot
After the sappy and slick Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle feels like a breath of fresh air from David O. Russell, the easy laughs first coming with its opening title-card note that “Some of this stuff actually happened.” Written by Russell and...