In his first acting role in seven years, “Lost” star Matthew Fox plays Andy Yeats, a petrochemical scientist who discovers that the world’s oil supply has been deliberately sabotaged, leading to a worldwide crisis where planes fall from the sky and civilization teeters on the brink of collapse in Peacock’s five-part series “Last Light.”
Fox, who previously worked with director/producer Dennie Gordon on the ’90s series “Party of Five,” also steps into the role of executive producer for the first time for the series.
Ahead of its Thursday premiere, TheWrap spoke with Fox and Gordon as well as “Downton Abbey” alum Joanne Froggatt, who plays Fox’s wife, and Amber Rose Revah of “Marvel’s The Punisher,” who plays a British agent who might be an ally or an enemy of Yeats.
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Fox, who previously worked with director/producer Dennie Gordon on the ’90s series “Party of Five,” also steps into the role of executive producer for the first time for the series.
Ahead of its Thursday premiere, TheWrap spoke with Fox and Gordon as well as “Downton Abbey” alum Joanne Froggatt, who plays Fox’s wife, and Amber Rose Revah of “Marvel’s The Punisher,” who plays a British agent who might be an ally or an enemy of Yeats.
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- 9/8/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, Thomas Dekker, Vivian Chan, Barbarella Pardo, Cristina Rodlo, Sebastián Cano, Damián Alcázar, Ricardo Abarca, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Erick Delgadillo, Mikhail Plata | Written by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer | Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
Miss Bala is the English language remake of the Mexican film of the same name, released in 2011, directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The 2019 remake is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and features Jane the Virgin star, Gina Rodriguez as Gloria. A character who is caught up in a deadly game between gangland Mexico and Us forces, who plant Gloria in the midst of gathering intel on the former or face prosecution in the Us by the latter. Miss Bala for the most part, is an enjoyable little action/thriller. It’s never completely riveting or mesmerising in what it offers but sticks to what it knows with Hardwicke strong behind the wheel.
Performance wise it’s a mixed bag overall.
Miss Bala is the English language remake of the Mexican film of the same name, released in 2011, directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The 2019 remake is directed by Catherine Hardwicke and features Jane the Virgin star, Gina Rodriguez as Gloria. A character who is caught up in a deadly game between gangland Mexico and Us forces, who plant Gloria in the midst of gathering intel on the former or face prosecution in the Us by the latter. Miss Bala for the most part, is an enjoyable little action/thriller. It’s never completely riveting or mesmerising in what it offers but sticks to what it knows with Hardwicke strong behind the wheel.
Performance wise it’s a mixed bag overall.
- 5/3/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Female empowerment is a complicated journey for any filmmaker to tackle because there is no one way to define or to interpret an empowered woman. When James Cameron called “Wonder Woman” an “objectified icon,” Patty Jenkins fired back by saying, “I believe women can and should be Everything, just like male lead characters should be. There is no right and wrong kind of powerful woman.”
Jenkins was right: Empowerment isn’t about looks or physical strength; it’s about who a woman is, and who she ends up becoming. Portraying that journey, while also trying to make a film about the Latinx community (a historically overlooked demographic in Hollywood cinema), becomes an extraordinarily difficult task for director Catherine Hardwicke in “Miss Bala.” She’s game for the challenge of remaking the 2011 Mexican film but doesn’t quite get there, mostly because of the underwritten characters, and a few confusing relationships...
Jenkins was right: Empowerment isn’t about looks or physical strength; it’s about who a woman is, and who she ends up becoming. Portraying that journey, while also trying to make a film about the Latinx community (a historically overlooked demographic in Hollywood cinema), becomes an extraordinarily difficult task for director Catherine Hardwicke in “Miss Bala.” She’s game for the challenge of remaking the 2011 Mexican film but doesn’t quite get there, mostly because of the underwritten characters, and a few confusing relationships...
- 1/31/2019
- by Yolanda Machado
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Larry Yang’s Mountain Cry, co-produced by Hairun Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, started production today in the Taihang Mountains of China’s Shanxi Province.
Yang, a young mainland Chinese filmmaker, has also written the script based on Ge Shuiping’s award-winning Chinese novel of the same name.
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village’s tight-knit community. Following his death, the villagers get to know the man’s widow, a mysterious mute with the power to tell her story wordlessly.
Ge’s novel was inspired by real life events that occurred in the Taihang Mountain region where she grew up and still lives today.
Lang Yueting plays the mute wife, while Wang Ziyi plays the role of Han Chong, a young man in the village who is forced to take responsibility for her husband’s death.
Lang...
Yang, a young mainland Chinese filmmaker, has also written the script based on Ge Shuiping’s award-winning Chinese novel of the same name.
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village’s tight-knit community. Following his death, the villagers get to know the man’s widow, a mysterious mute with the power to tell her story wordlessly.
Ge’s novel was inspired by real life events that occurred in the Taihang Mountain region where she grew up and still lives today.
Lang Yueting plays the mute wife, while Wang Ziyi plays the role of Han Chong, a young man in the village who is forced to take responsibility for her husband’s death.
Lang...
- 10/5/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Cold Case Files: Walker’s Debut Unexpectedly Grounded
Nothing beats the successful defiance of negative assumption and low expectation, and with that in mind, director/screenwriter Scott Walker’s debut, The Frozen Ground, is surprisingly enjoyable, as it headlines a couple of major Hollywood stars that would indicate otherwise. Another of those “based on a true story” endeavors about an Alaskan serial killer from the early 1980s, Walker manages to avoid being another entry in a trash heap of similar scenarios, even if his screenplay depends heavily on several instances of cliché. If anything, here is a testament to the considerable tension that can be mounted from a cast determined to give realistic performances paired with a director that seems to know something about developing realistic (well, for the most part) characters.
From 1971 to 1983, a serial killer in Alaska ruthlessly abducted and killed 21 young women (though it’s speculated...
Nothing beats the successful defiance of negative assumption and low expectation, and with that in mind, director/screenwriter Scott Walker’s debut, The Frozen Ground, is surprisingly enjoyable, as it headlines a couple of major Hollywood stars that would indicate otherwise. Another of those “based on a true story” endeavors about an Alaskan serial killer from the early 1980s, Walker manages to avoid being another entry in a trash heap of similar scenarios, even if his screenplay depends heavily on several instances of cliché. If anything, here is a testament to the considerable tension that can be mounted from a cast determined to give realistic performances paired with a director that seems to know something about developing realistic (well, for the most part) characters.
From 1971 to 1983, a serial killer in Alaska ruthlessly abducted and killed 21 young women (though it’s speculated...
- 8/19/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
★★☆☆☆ In his 2010 review of Hot Tube Time Machine, the late, great film critic Roger Ebert stated that in 55 features, John Cusack has hardly ever made a bad one. He was referring to the ineffable 'Cusackness' he brings to every film he is in - that humble, genuine, over-articulate man-boy seen in his most memorable roles, including Say Anything and High Fidelity. In recent years however, he has been cast against type: as Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven, in The Paperboy as a sweaty murderer, and now in Scott Walker's The Frozen Ground (2013), where he plays real-life 1980s serial killer Robert Hansen.
From 1971 until he was convicted in 1983, Hansen abducted up to 21 girls, flew each one over in his personal plane to the remotest Alaskan wilderness, and murdered and buried them there. The film starts when teenage hooker Cindy (a scantily-clad Vanessa Hudgens) escapes Hansen's sadistic clutches and accuses him.
From 1971 until he was convicted in 1983, Hansen abducted up to 21 girls, flew each one over in his personal plane to the remotest Alaskan wilderness, and murdered and buried them there. The film starts when teenage hooker Cindy (a scantily-clad Vanessa Hudgens) escapes Hansen's sadistic clutches and accuses him.
- 7/18/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Chicago – In our latest crime/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes and one signed poster for one grand-prize winner for the new film “Brooklyn’s Finest” from the director of “Training Day”! The movie passes can be used at any Chicago screening at participating theaters.
“Brooklyn’s Finest” stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Brian F. O’Byrne, Will Patton, Jesse Williams, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Shannon Kane, Wass Stevens, Armando Riesco, Wade Allain-Marcus and Logan Marshall-Green from director Antoine Fuqua and writer Michael C. Martin. The film opened on March 5, 2010.
To win your free “Brooklyn’s Finest” movie pass and for your chance to win our signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup...
“Brooklyn’s Finest” stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Brian F. O’Byrne, Will Patton, Jesse Williams, Lili Taylor, Ellen Barkin, Shannon Kane, Wass Stevens, Armando Riesco, Wade Allain-Marcus and Logan Marshall-Green from director Antoine Fuqua and writer Michael C. Martin. The film opened on March 5, 2010.
To win your free “Brooklyn’s Finest” movie pass and for your chance to win our signed poster courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer a question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup...
- 3/21/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Release Date: Out Now Director: Antoine Fuqua Writer: Michael C. Martin Cinematographer: Patrick Murguia Starring: Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes Studio/Runtime: Overture, 133 mins. Three Brooklyn cops, one well-worn destination Antoine Fuqua, director of the stiff-shouldered new drama Brooklyn’s Finest, mines the sturdy, winded mythology of the big-city-cop movie with sincerity. He works best at a mid-range budget and makes muscular, brutal movies that trade in the clichés of the genre but demand our submission to their dramatic overtures. “King Kong ain’t got shit on me!” Denzel Washington famously declares in Training Day, Fuqua’s best film,...
- 3/8/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere in a top new cop flick.
Ethan Hawke in "Brooklyn's Finest"
Photo: Millennium Films
"Brooklyn's Finest" takes us back once more to Cop Land, where drug thugs fester and desperate lawmen fight to keep their heads above the slime. Director Antoine Fuqua has walked down these mean streets before, in the 2001 "Training Day." Here, he's relocated from L.A. to New York to tell a more complex tale; and while the movie is inevitably schematic in its interweaving of three different stories, it's a blistering piece of work.
Brooklyn's grim 65th Precinct appears to be populated exclusively by good guys, bad guys and the dead guys who got in their way. Like everyone else except the departed, narc-squad veteran Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has heavy problems: a sick wife, five kids and twins on the way. Sal needs to move his family out...
Ethan Hawke in "Brooklyn's Finest"
Photo: Millennium Films
"Brooklyn's Finest" takes us back once more to Cop Land, where drug thugs fester and desperate lawmen fight to keep their heads above the slime. Director Antoine Fuqua has walked down these mean streets before, in the 2001 "Training Day." Here, he's relocated from L.A. to New York to tell a more complex tale; and while the movie is inevitably schematic in its interweaving of three different stories, it's a blistering piece of work.
Brooklyn's grim 65th Precinct appears to be populated exclusively by good guys, bad guys and the dead guys who got in their way. Like everyone else except the departed, narc-squad veteran Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has heavy problems: a sick wife, five kids and twins on the way. Sal needs to move his family out...
- 3/5/2010
- MTV Movie News
Antoine Fuqua is an interesting director. Most of his movies feature world-weary macho warriors who plow their way through a corrupt and dangerous system, often embracing that corruption themselves in an effort to cope. These films—among them King Arthur, The Replacement Killers, and Training Day—are mostly slick action thrillers usually featuring stock characters and well-worn storylines. And yet, somehow, they gain their own individuality as a result of Fuqua’s focus on his actors and their performances.
Watching Denzel Washington rip his way through the flimsy script of Training Day and still conjure a plausible human being or Stellan Skarsgard’s one-note Celtic villain mutter wearily ‘Finally, a man worth killing’ into the Welsh rain are some of the pleasures to be found in a Fuqua film. He takes an approach towards action filmmaking that one doesn’t see too often these days; he builds the special effects...
Watching Denzel Washington rip his way through the flimsy script of Training Day and still conjure a plausible human being or Stellan Skarsgard’s one-note Celtic villain mutter wearily ‘Finally, a man worth killing’ into the Welsh rain are some of the pleasures to be found in a Fuqua film. He takes an approach towards action filmmaking that one doesn’t see too often these days; he builds the special effects...
- 3/5/2010
- by Nathan Bartlebaugh
- Atomic Popcorn
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