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THE GREAT DEBATERS

Do you like your historical docudramas glossy and predictable? If so, then make sure to check out Denzel Washington’s latest attempt at the Oprah-ization of black history!

VANTAGE POINT

Directed by: Pete Travis
Written by: Barry Levy
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Said Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Eduardo Noriega
Distributed by Sony Pictures
Film is out NOW in the U.S. and on March 7th in the U.K.
Review by Oliver Pfeiffer

Talk about best laid plans. Vantage Point marks […]

STREET KINGS poster & trailer

Has David Ayer just remade his TRAINING DAY movie (and copied the SMOKIN’ ACES style poster artwork?) and placed Keanu Reeves in the lead role for the newly titled STREET KINGS.

That’s the feeling I get from watching the trailer. Though with the awesome Forest Whitaker and supporting turns from Chris Evans and Hugh Laurie, it […]

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN gets name change

A smart move or a sign of weakness?
The David Ayer (HARSH TIMES) directed and James Ellroy scripted crime thriller originally titled NIGHT WATCH (changed because that Russian fantasy series NIGHT WATCH got their first) which was changed to THE NIGHT WATCHMAN earlier in the year, has gone through yet another name change!
Worried about the similarities […]

THE GREAT DEBATERS

This is a solid, thought-provoking and absorbing drama from Mr Washington, and one that thoroughly deserved that recent Golden Globe nod for Best Motion Drama.