2. "Don't Get Captured - Run the Jewels
3. "Lie, Cheat, Steal" - Run the Jewels
4. "Run the Jewels" - Run the Jewels
5. "Nobody Speak" - DJ Shadow feat. Run the Jewels
Friday, August 3, 2018
Last Resort Films Jukebox: Numero Uno
2. "Don't Get Captured - Run the Jewels
3. "Lie, Cheat, Steal" - Run the Jewels
4. "Run the Jewels" - Run the Jewels
5. "Nobody Speak" - DJ Shadow feat. Run the Jewels
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Now Showing: Numero Uno
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Shane Black
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast: Tom Hardy, Chris Hemsworth, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlize Theron, Michael Pena, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Viola Davis, Naomi Scott, Benicio del Toro
Plot: Three top agents in a secret spy company Adal Normand (Tom Hardy), Leo Harrison (Chris Hemsworth) and Bastion Claas (Alexander Skarsgard) and their respective tech support/their guy/girl on the computer Luna (Mila Kunis), Christine (Kristen Bell) and Esteban (Michael Pena) idolizes the Number One agent in the company Jane Doe (Charlize Theron) and are on frenemies terms with each other and everything is a contest between them. They all show their bravado's in individual missions and starts bragging about them to each other.
Bastion Claas tells other that he and Esteban were in Russia trying to steal a new tech which will help them find anybody from cameras but it was going to be auctioned to a group of Terrorists. We came to know that it is being holed up in some high tech facility. Esteban tapped into their security and guided Claas into the facility. They cracked some high tech doors but the tech was already shipped to the auction site. Esteban created a Fake persona for Bastion online and gave him a invite to auction where he can join the auction as one of the goons. When the auction started Bastion suggested Esteban to create power outage which Bastion used to create chaos inside the hall and in the end stole the Tech.
Listening to this Adal Normand stood up and said that was child's play and said you all shall ask Luna what we did in our last mission. After insistence from Adal when Luna started to speak Adal cut her and started speaking saying that the agency got an alert that a Royal Couple was going to be kidnapped and the agency wanted us to infiltrate their security where I joined as a Bodyguard to the couple. After some focused investigating I found that their private plane pilot and crew are the one's who are involved in this plan and we got ourselves invited on the trip. In flight they tried to drug us, The Royal couple dosed off as they didn't knew they were going to be kidnapped. Then we two were pitted against 7 of them. We bested them with our bare hands and jumped off the plane with the Royals and Parachutes.
Leo Harrison started laughing after listening to that saying who uses bare hand when this sweet babies, taking out his guns can do the job more efficiently. You both enjoyed the comfort of civilization on your previous missions while I was in a Terrorist camp in jungle for months. The Boss (Viola Davis) bored me with all the missions related to gather information finally she gave the order I wanted to hear, "Destroy the Camp, Leave no Witness". Ooh, the adrenaline rush that went through me was amazing nothing could stop me. I came out of my communication place and grab my sweeties and went berserk. You see this blades, takes out two blood soaked swords from his bags and tells them this blades were used by him to gut two beasts in that camp. Leo also called Christine for backup who came with a Hummer with Gatling Gun on it's back which Leo used like starved man who just got the best delicacies. They all behave like puppies in front of Numero Uno Jane Doe.
One day while all of the three are in the headquarters, they notice that Jane Doe is entering the headquarters, The three of them try to act cool in front of her. The moment she goes towards the Boss office, all the three of them start frantically running towards the office and reach the office door of Boss before it closes, while pushing each other out of the way. When Boss asks why they are here, Adal takes out a piece of torn paper from his pocket and gives it to the Boss saying it's his last mission report, Boss opens it and confused asks only "Accomplished" is written here, before anything else could be said Leo comes forward and offers her a cup of coffee saying that she should taste it, it's awesome he learnt it while he was in Siberia and tries to hand her one. Boss takes it and asks Bastion what about him to which Bastion replies he is just checking the WiFi. After the conversation the three still doesn't leave awkwardly standing there and trying to start conversations but eventually Boss shows them the door and closes it.
After sometime when Boss opens the door she finds Bastion lying on the floor near the door gap, Leo stick to a window of her office and Andal hanging on the ventilator of the office. The moment they three see Boss they all start exercising, a clearly disappointed Boss sends them back to their cabins. All the three rush to their offices and start tidying themselves. The three secretly reveal to their handlers that they overheard Boss saying that she will bring a list of qualified persons so that Jane can select. Leo asks Christine to find a stool so he can stand on it so when she comes to select them he should stand apart. While Andal starts putting up a lot of medals some his own and some not on the walls of his cabin and Bastion starts to do some pull ups. Jane and Boss comes in the meeting room and calls all the agents and handlers and announce that Jane needs some people for her next mission and when they start announcing Leo, Andal and Bastion moves a step forward but to their surprise Jane announces the names of Esteban, Christine and Luna.
The three are impatiently waiting for their handlers to return from the mission so they can know more about her but the wait increases and they start doing futile work in the offices or turning their office into a handball stadium and playing with each other. After nearly month when their handlers return they found the office into a complete mess and the three in the most caveman look.
They all are contacted by Boss, Boss calls all the three of them in her office and tells that the spot of Numero Uno is now open and the one who will complete the next mission will get the spot. She tells the previous Numero Uno has defected from the agency. On her previous mission she was sent to grab Virgil (Naomi Scott) an enemy of peace but Numero Uno escaped with her. Now their mission is to capture both of them. Jane Doe was last spotted in Turkey with Virgil.
All of them with their Tech Support go to Turkey where they all start their own individual adventure. After some failed attempts and sabotaging each other mission they realize they need to work together.
They realize that their targets have left Turkey and are now seen in Morocco. They travel there, after some intelligent work from them which included Bastion and Esteban hacking their own agency to use the new tech they stole from Soviet and Adal and Luna interacting with the locals and gathering intelligence, they finally trap Jane Doe. They found she is wounded and hiding with Virgil. When they start to bring them back, Jane tells them the truth that she was sent here to kill Virgil which she was going to do but she reveals that the reason a kill order is issued on her is that she is the sole witness of a murder committed by Boss for her own personal agenda. Jane Doe then realized that most of her missions helped Boss in her own personal agenda and that time Jane decided that she will take no more orders from boss and that's the reason they decide to hide. The trio decide that they should not run and trap her. They bring Jane Doe and Virgil with them to their country but don't deliver them to Boss with citing some reasons.
Boss believes that the Trio has understood the real reason behind the mission and sends Second (Benicio del Toro) a dangerous criminal who was arrested by the trio in their initial days behind them to kill the trio and bring her Virgil.
Flashback
Leo, Andal and Bastion are moving towards a building but suddenly shots are fired towards them, they take cover and decide that they need to call for help. Bastion calls the handler line for the first time and Esteban picks up on the other side. Bastion explains that they have found Second hiding in a building but are having trouble entering it while saying this he reveals it's the first mission for the three of them. Esteban gets happy listening this and says this is also his first rodeo and says he is starting with his two friends Luna and Christine and calls them to say to the trio. After the greeting Esteban and group says that they have analyzed the building and they think Leo should hold the front while Andal and Esteban should enter a second building and from it's top they can enter Second's building through roof and then they can clear the floor from there. They successfully capture Second.
Present
Leo and Christine after learning about Second is on their trail decide that they needed weapons to fight the army Second will bring and tap into their contacts to get the weapons they require.
The Trio battles the Second and his goons in a warehouse while Jane Doe escapes with Virgil. The fight turns ugly with Esteban and Leo getting injured but the Esteban injury puts Bastion Claas in rage mode and he goes berserk on Second goons. Second dies in the battle but leaves a trail which connects him back to Boss. After the defeat of Second, Bastion goes to Esteban and confesses that his world will collapse if he loses Esteban to which Leo says to Christine that she also can tell him that which Christine ignores. The Trio uses the connection as clues which lead them to more Boss personal missions, with the new evidence and Virgil as witness they put a case against her in front of President who grants them the permission to go after her but Boss escapes the country during the ordeal.
Breaking News
The Roundup with Jeff Stockton (Season 7 Round 3)
This was really the first chance to see Gadot in a lead role other than Wonder Woman. She's good as Wonder Woman, but it's not exactly the most difficult of roles. Here, she has a little more heavy lifting to do, and I was impressed by her abilities and charisma.
2. Richard Dragon & Lady Shiva
I loved that Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva returned for this entry to close out the trilogy. They were instrumental in Sage becoming The Question and training him, so it was good that they were back to aid him in his existential crisis.
1. Christina Hendricks
She gives arguably the best performance of her career this time around as Myra Connelly. She was a far more active character than in the first two entries. I really hope there is some award talk for her here, because she completely deserves it.
He really just isn't cut out for these big, serious films. He is good with crime comedies, and the first Sherlock Holmes film was pretty good, but after his King Arthur and this, I think it's time for him to step away from the historical genre. I kind of feel bad for Disney's Aladdin film that he's working on. Actually, screw Disney... They're a bunch of assholes...
2. Joe Taslim
Merdeka's writer Meirad Tako wrote a solid script, but his biggest mistake was thinking it was a good idea to let star Joe Taslim direct. Merdeka was Taslim's biggest role in his career to date, and it was probably too difficult a task to star and direct at this point in his career. Acting-wise, he was okay (good in the fight scenes, less good in the dramatic scenes - something he hasn't had a lot of practice with).
1. The End of The Question Trilogy
Hopefully, The Question returns in more films in the future, because I am going to miss this series. I know writer D.R. Cobb has said he isn't closing the door on the series, but that better be true. The Question is probably my favorite series from the studio. I love how the series takes the character so seriously, but without being a bore, and I love how Cobb and Refn have taken a little known character and made him completely relevant. So bring him back, damnit!
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Release: Cleopatra
Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Billy Rimmel
Cast: Gal Gadot, Michael Fassbender, Eric Bana, Theo James, Alex Wolff, Lena Headey, Colin Morgan, Andrew Lincoln, Alex Pettyfer, Paul Bettany
Budget: $83,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $35,579,082
Foreign Box Office: $54,910,822
Total Profit: -$40,658,195
Reaction: These big historical projects can be quite risky. Sometimes you can have a good script and a good cast, but the people just don't turn out.
"Guy Ritchie just doesn't seem to be cut out for these big budget historical films. First he butchered King Arthur with his clunky King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, now he has given us an overly cold take on Cleopatra." - Michael Van Patten, Slant Magazine
"Gal Gadot is given a chance to really stretch her acting muscles her as the legendary queen of Egypt. While she appears to struggle at times, she is ably assisted by the likes of Michael Fassbender and Eric Bana." - Jeremy Raren, RottenTomatoes.com
"People have been waiting years for a new big budget film about the life of Cleopatra. The script from Billy Rimmell gives them what they wanted with the story and the lavish production design, while a charismatic performance from Gadot gives them the Cleopatra they deserve." - Richard Park, Globe and Mail
In Development
Mortal Kombat: Many roles have already been announced for Gareth Evan's Mortal Kombat, but there are still some popular characters left. Tony Jaa (xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Furious 7), Donnie Yen (xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Yayan Ruhian (Beyond Skyline, The Raid 2) and Winston Duke ("Person of Interest", Black Panther) have rounded out the cast of the film as Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Kung Lao, and Jax, respectively. APJ and Chad Taylor wrote the script.
White Tiger: Last Resort Films' latest Marvel project, White Tiger, has added Matt Gerald (Rampage, Road Rash), Charlie Cox ("Daredevil", The Life Ahead) and Jason Isaacs (The Death of Stalin, "Star Trek: Discovery"). Gerald and Cox will reprise their roles from the "Daredevil" Netflix series, while Isaacs will play an FBI agent. Jack Ryder wrote the script.
The Lady in the Lake: The Coen Brothers' latest, an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake, has cast Abbie Cornish (Silver Surfer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Ed Helms (Tag, Delaware) and Bobby Cannavale (A View from the Bridge, Ant-Man). Helms will play a wealthy businessman who hires George Clooney's Philip Marlowe to find his wife, Cannavale will play a police officer, and Cornish will play a mysterious woman who plays a hand in Marlowe's investigation. Dwight Gallo penned the adaptation.
Mass Effect: Silent Assassins: A fan favorite from Mass Effect 2, Thane Krios, is now getting his own film. Mads Mikkelsen (Mass Effect 2, Dishonest) will reprise his role as the Drell assassin in a story that delves into his backstory. He will be joined by Rosamund Pike (Nation's Pride, Strangers Friends) as his wife. Duncan Jones (Mute, V) is set to direct the project from a script by Seth Overton (Mass Effect 2, Made in Abyss).
The Death of the Honest Man: Colin Farrell (Doppelganger, Dead Space) is set to re-team with director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) for the third time on Dominic Wilkins' (Shake Hands with the Devil, Halo: ODST) latest film. He will play a successful traveling salesman with some personal problems. Kristen Wiig (Mother!, Downsizing) will play his wife, Keira Knightley (Inhumans, Collateral Beauty) will play a potential customer,while Ellen Page (Flatliners, Freeheld) will play a former client.
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