News Shotgun 4/27
James Wan is producing a new Salem’s Lot, the first official details about Bond 25 were revealed, Joe Carnahan is still working on a remake of The Raid, Ken Watanabe is starring in a Japanese version of The Fugitive and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
New Release Round Up 5/8
Saving Private Ryan gets a 4K release this week along with the anime inspired animated Batman movie, Batman Ninja and more.
Review: Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan puts his trademark precision and visual style to the true life events of Dunkirk in 1940, when Allied forces were in retreat and awaiting evacuation to the UK with the Axis forces tightening the noose every day.
Review: Fury
After the horrible Sabotage earlier this year, David Ayer pulls a 180 and delivers the fantastic World War II movie Fury, where Brad Pitt leads a Sherman tank crew into the heart of Germany in the closing days of the war.
Know Your “That Guy’: Max Martini
Popping all over the place lately is Max Martini, usually playing some sort of bad ass like Jaeger pilot Herc Hansen in Pacific Rim.
Know Your “That Guy”: Barry Pepper
One of the go to guys for period war movies, Barry Pepper is probably best known for playing the sniper, Pvt. Jackson, in Saving Private Ryan and appeared in a bunch of movies already this year, like Broken City and Snitch.
Know Your “That Guy”: Giovanni Ribisi
Neurotic, sleazy, creepy and eccentric are all adjectives you can use to decribe most of Giovanni Ribisi’s characters in movies like Gone in Sixty Seconds, Avatar, Ted and Saving Private Ryan.
Action Hero of the Week: John Miller
Captain Miller led his men through D-Day and onto a search and rescue mission in World War II and earns a spot in the Action Hero of the Week ranks.