Street Wise Hercules: Love’s Homespun Superhero Film Too Conventional for Kicks
No one can deny the super hero is now an immovable staple of Hollywood tent pole filmmaking, having overrun the mainstream market in every conceivable fashion via standalone films, hybrid mash-ups and valiant ensembles. Imperceptibly, these narratives have also infiltrated smaller budgeted endeavors and even independent American cinema, albeit to less substantial effect. British director Nick Love (The Sweeney, 2012), known for a growing filmography built on the type of crime tinged action films once proliferated by Guy Ritchie, makes a curious move overseas with the New Orleans set American Hero, a narrative more interesting than its generic title otherwise suggests. The exploits of a working class man wrapped up in his own downward spiral despite having unexplainable yet extraordinary super powers will have audiences nitpicking its derivative components despite its quality production values and an otherwise persuasive performance from Stephen Dorff.
No one can deny the super hero is now an immovable staple of Hollywood tent pole filmmaking, having overrun the mainstream market in every conceivable fashion via standalone films, hybrid mash-ups and valiant ensembles. Imperceptibly, these narratives have also infiltrated smaller budgeted endeavors and even independent American cinema, albeit to less substantial effect. British director Nick Love (The Sweeney, 2012), known for a growing filmography built on the type of crime tinged action films once proliferated by Guy Ritchie, makes a curious move overseas with the New Orleans set American Hero, a narrative more interesting than its generic title otherwise suggests. The exploits of a working class man wrapped up in his own downward spiral despite having unexplainable yet extraordinary super powers will have audiences nitpicking its derivative components despite its quality production values and an otherwise persuasive performance from Stephen Dorff.
- 12/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With American Horror Story: Asylum set to debut in the Us on October 17th (the UK debut is October 30th on FX) we thought we’d bring you a daily American Horror Story-related Top 5 from today till Wednesday – today’s Top 5 takes a look at the Top Five Fictional Nuns. Why? Read on.
After stealing the show in the first series, Jessica Lange is back taking centre stage as twisted nun Sister Jude. A woman of stern faith (and fan of corporal punishment) she is grappling with many un-nun like demons of her own. With a fondness for red lingerie and fantasies about Monsignor Timothy O’Hara (Joseph Fiennes) could this role land her with another Emmy? Our money says yes. Here is a list of some of our favourite fictional nuns…
5) Maria – The Sound Of Music
Ok so she wasn’t technically a nun. But we definitely remember...
After stealing the show in the first series, Jessica Lange is back taking centre stage as twisted nun Sister Jude. A woman of stern faith (and fan of corporal punishment) she is grappling with many un-nun like demons of her own. With a fondness for red lingerie and fantasies about Monsignor Timothy O’Hara (Joseph Fiennes) could this role land her with another Emmy? Our money says yes. Here is a list of some of our favourite fictional nuns…
5) Maria – The Sound Of Music
Ok so she wasn’t technically a nun. But we definitely remember...
- 10/16/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
By Allen Gardner
A Separation (Sony) This drama from Iran won the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, telling the story of a couple who file for a legal separation, with the wife pushing for a divorce. He won’t leave his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father behind, while she is wanting to take their young daughter with her to the United States. After a series of misunderstandings, threats and legal actions, the couple find that there is more than just their marriage that’s on the line. Hyper-realistic to a fault, reminiscent of the neo-realist films that came out of post-ww II Europe, but also repressive and redundant in the extreme, with the characters seeming to throw the same temper tantrum for two hours straight while the story, meanwhile, seems stalled. Wildly overpraised film is a real litmus test, with viewers seeming to be staunch defenders or equally impassioned detractors. It did win an Oscar,...
A Separation (Sony) This drama from Iran won the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, telling the story of a couple who file for a legal separation, with the wife pushing for a divorce. He won’t leave his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father behind, while she is wanting to take their young daughter with her to the United States. After a series of misunderstandings, threats and legal actions, the couple find that there is more than just their marriage that’s on the line. Hyper-realistic to a fault, reminiscent of the neo-realist films that came out of post-ww II Europe, but also repressive and redundant in the extreme, with the characters seeming to throw the same temper tantrum for two hours straight while the story, meanwhile, seems stalled. Wildly overpraised film is a real litmus test, with viewers seeming to be staunch defenders or equally impassioned detractors. It did win an Oscar,...
- 8/1/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Street Wars
Stars: Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory, William Stewart, Sarah Lind,Adrian Hough, Elizabeth Thai, Kyle Cassie, David Richmond Peck, Alex Mallari Jr., Byron Mann | Written by Joe Halpin, Steven Seagal | Directed by Joe Halpin
Elijah Kane (Seagal) and his undercover team of Seattle-based cops are in a race against the clock to uncover who is behind the toxic “E” pill raising the body count of teens in Seattle. If that wasn’t enough, Kane’s team is forced to do some ‘community service’ acting as security guards for Savon (Mann) an arrogant documentary filmmaker making a film of Seattle’s criminal underbelly, who is looking to expose the slums of Seattle’s at any cost, including the lives of Kane and his team.
Co-written and directed by long-time Seagal collaborator Joe Halpin, who penned five of Seagal’s previous movies, and produced a further six(!), Street Wars is the...
Stars: Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory, William Stewart, Sarah Lind,Adrian Hough, Elizabeth Thai, Kyle Cassie, David Richmond Peck, Alex Mallari Jr., Byron Mann | Written by Joe Halpin, Steven Seagal | Directed by Joe Halpin
Elijah Kane (Seagal) and his undercover team of Seattle-based cops are in a race against the clock to uncover who is behind the toxic “E” pill raising the body count of teens in Seattle. If that wasn’t enough, Kane’s team is forced to do some ‘community service’ acting as security guards for Savon (Mann) an arrogant documentary filmmaker making a film of Seattle’s criminal underbelly, who is looking to expose the slums of Seattle’s at any cost, including the lives of Kane and his team.
Co-written and directed by long-time Seagal collaborator Joe Halpin, who penned five of Seagal’s previous movies, and produced a further six(!), Street Wars is the...
- 4/24/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Ok, have you Tossers ever heard of “Generic Brands”? Good…Well, in movies we also have that, unfortunately for us it means that an extremely low budget film of a “Major Blockbuster” is being made. Which means the smaller, relatively unknown studios will make a carbon-copy movie in-and-around the same time-frame as the bigger, well established studios with the same idea as the Major, Big Budgeted, Hollywood Machine has done…but with a different plot.
Which brings us to the movie, “2012: Doomsday” brought to us by Faith Films. It stars Cliff Dee Young (The Craft,The Substitute), Ami Dolenz (Step Monster, Miracle Beach, The Children of Times Square), and Danae Nason (Transmorphers, Come Home, Countdown: Jerusalem). Some of these actors and actresses are better known for their roles in within the Christian Film community.
The plot of this movie is really simple, and it is quite easy to understand.
Which brings us to the movie, “2012: Doomsday” brought to us by Faith Films. It stars Cliff Dee Young (The Craft,The Substitute), Ami Dolenz (Step Monster, Miracle Beach, The Children of Times Square), and Danae Nason (Transmorphers, Come Home, Countdown: Jerusalem). Some of these actors and actresses are better known for their roles in within the Christian Film community.
The plot of this movie is really simple, and it is quite easy to understand.
- 3/3/2010
- by Jack "The Whore of Horror"
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