Although his star is on the rise, Glen Powell was not going to let an opportunity pass him by to fight for the lead role in Wright’s upcoming remake. Glen Powell’s stock rose significantly since his turn as the traditional team antagonist in Top Gun: Maverick, which followed in the footsteps of Val Kilmer’s Iceman … Read more
A Los Angeles native, Robert Bertram Schwartz graduated from Pomona College, seeking a life as an actor after leaving school. As luck would have it, he ended up in an acting class with Roger Corman. When Corman became a producer of low-budget classics, he hired Towne to write a film called “Last Woman on Earth,” … Read more
Glen Powell’s Hit Man recently hit Netflix and fans who enjoyed the film are wondering whether a Hit Man 2 will be coming out and if so, whether a release date has been set for it. Loosely based on the 2001 Texas Monthly magazine article “Hit Man” by Skip Hollandsworth, the story follows an undercover … Read more
Richard Linklater’s Hit Man has one of those perfect movie premises. Glen Powell (who co-wrote the film with Linklater) plays a lonely college professor named Gary who stumbles into a second job for the local police aiding in sting operations. While he starts off helping with their surveillance equipment, the cops later draft him into impersonating a … Read more
We have put together a list of everything we know about Wake Up Dead Man, the third Knives Out mystery film The series of murder mysteries that began with the 2019 film Knives Out and continued with the 2022 film Glass Onion is set to keep on going with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out … Read more
Robert Downey Jr. says he is “surprisingly open-minded” when it comes to return as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Robert Downey Jr. set the tone for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe with his portrayal of Tony Stark/Iron Man, but after more than a decade, the actor bid farewell to the role in Avengers: … Read more
Can a hit man be redeemed? Oh, sure, it happens all the time—but it helps if some really bad dudes killed his dog. Ten years ago, Keanu Reeves enjoyed a commercial comeback with “John Wick,” playing the titular assassin, who was once retired and happily married. But after losing his beloved wife—and then seeing the … Read more
Andrew Scott joins Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny in the cast of Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. The cast of the next Knives Out movie is starting to come together. Shortly after the title was officially announced — Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery — it was revealed … Read more
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions of which often shift based on the generation of the speaker—when Hollywood made products that were sexier, smarter, and just generally better. Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” is for them. Like its protagonist’s ability to basically change identities depending on the situation, it’s a film … Read more
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s latest is an average action noir, but it’s great to see him front and center, still doing the action himself. PLOT: Russell Hatch an Interpol operative who takes on the role of father figure to Jayden, the son of an informant killed in a routine raid gone wrong. REVIEW: It’s nothing new … Read more