Harvey Keitel takes center stage as a double-crossed crook goes for blood after a major jewel heist turns sour — and bloody. Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff are in on the split for one late- ’90s crime caper that’s not a stylistic hijack of Quentin Tarantino. Directed by John Irvin.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
City of Industry
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1997 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date October 3, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Wade Dominguez, Michael Jai White, Lucy Alexis Liu, Reno Wilson, Dana Barron, Tamara Clatterbuck, Elliott Gould.
Cinematography: Thomas Burstyn
Film Editor: Mark Conte
Special Effects: Joe Lombardi
Original Music: Stephen Endelman
Written by Ken Solarz
Produced by Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Directed by John Irvin
Director John Irvin earned his right to crow early on with TV’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the excellent action film about mercenaries The Dogs of War.
- 10/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Recently, CBS delivered the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Hawaii Five-o" episode 7 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Na Kama Hele" is Hawaiian for "Day Trippers," and it turns out that we're going to see very intense and high drama stuff go down as a deadly mob boss totally ruins Lynn and McGarrett's first date with a vicious attack, and more! In the new, 7th episode press release: McGarrett's First Date With Lynn On A Deserted Island Turns Deadly When A Mob Boss Hiding There Hunts Them Down In Order To Keep His Location A Secret, On "Hawaii Five-0," Friday, Nov. 6. Press release number 2: McGarrett's first date with Lynn (Sarah Carter) on a deserted island, is going to turn deadly when a mob boss hiding there hunts them down in order to keep his location a secret. Also, Chin, Kono and Grover will have to race against...
- 10/30/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Hawaii Five-o" episode 23 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "Mo'o 'olelo Pu" (Sharing Traditions)," and it turns out that we're going to see some very dangerous and dramatic stuff take place as Kono becomes a victim of extreme deadly weather, and more! In the new, 23rd episode press release: When Kono Takes A Solo Outrigger Trip Around The Hawaiian Islands In Honor Of Her Mother, She Hits A Patch Of Wild Weather And Must Fight To Stay Alive. Press release number 2: When Kono goes on a solo outrigger trip around the Hawaiian islands in honor of her mother, she is going to hit a patch of wild weather and must fight to stay alive. As Five-0 searches for Kono, they will investigate a man busted for cooking meth who claims he received a threat on his son's life...
- 4/24/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Last night, CBS dropped the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Hawaii Five-o" episode 18 of season 5, and it delivers new looks at some pretty shocking and dramatic stuff as Danny and Chin are seen, getting thrown into the slammer on murder charges. Some major battle action goes down in an attempt to get them out, and more! The episode is labeled, "Pono Kaulike (Hawaiian for "Justice For All"). In the new, 18th episode official plotline: McGarrett is going to enlist Joe's help after Danny and Chin are arrested for deadly past transgressions. Plotline number 2: McGarrett is going to enlist Joe's help after Danny and Chin are arrested for deadly past transgressions. Terry O'Quinn and Jimmy Buffett return. The episode was written by Peter M. Lenkov and Ken Solarz, and it was directed by Larry Teng. Episode 18 is scheduled to air on Friday night, March 6th at 8pm central time on CBS.
- 2/28/2015
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
Recently, CBS served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Hawaii Five-o" episode 18 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "Pono Kaulike" (Hawaiian for "Justice For All"), and it turns out that we're going to see some very intense and shocking stuff go down when Danny and Chin find themselves under arrest for some deadly transgressions of the past, and more! In the new, 18th episode press release: McGarrett will enlist Joe's help after Danny and Chin are arrested for deadly past transgressions. Press release number 2: McGarrett will enlist Joe's help after Danny and Chin are arrested for deadly past transgressions. Terry O'Quinn and Jimmy Buffett return. Guest stars feature: Eli Foster (Deputy V. Akanu), Raphael Sbarge (Sam Alexander), Robert Knepper (Ia Detective Rex Coughlin), Cindy Ramirez (Teacher), Matthew Sato (Boy #1), Richard Cole Drake (Boy #2), Hector Luis Bustamante (Guard #1), Scott Nakasone (Deputy B. Branan), Kamakani De Dely (Desk...
- 2/27/2015
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Hawaii Five-0 is usually the action-adventure junkie’s dream, but in Friday’s episode, in which McGarrett and Co. work a cold case from the years just after Pearl Harbor, you won’t see quite the same type of action.
Executive producer Peter Lenkov said he and fellow writer on the episode Ken Solarz wanted to do something a little more intimate and dial back the present-day action in favor of a more “intimate” setting — the large part of the episode takes place in a single room, where a Korean War veteran recounts to McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) the story...
Executive producer Peter Lenkov said he and fellow writer on the episode Ken Solarz wanted to do something a little more intimate and dial back the present-day action in favor of a more “intimate” setting — the large part of the episode takes place in a single room, where a Korean War veteran recounts to McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) the story...
- 12/14/2013
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
Angela Bassett will topline the ABC pilot One Police Plaza, Variety reports. She’ll play the first female New York police commissioner. (Perhaps she inherited the job from Blue Bloods’ Tom Selleck?) Should the series — exec produced by Criminal Minds’ Mark Gordon, Deborah Spera, and the pilot’s writers, crime novelist Linda Fairstein (the Alex Cooper mysteries) and Ken Solarz (who’s penned episodes of CSI: NY, Profiler, and Miami Vice) — make it to air, it will be Bassett’s first series gig since ER. (We don’t count her voicing Michelle Obama on an episode of The Simpsons earlier this year.
- 11/18/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Its release calculated to coincide with the X Games, "Supercross: The Movie" is advertainment to the extreme.
Produced in association with Clear Channel Entertainment's Motor Sports division, which sponsors the Supercross bike-racing competition, the production attempts to dress up the corporate synergy in the guise of a fictionalized story of two racing brothers, but the resulting mix of ESPN-style visuals and WB Network-style dramatics never convincingly comes together.
Thanks to an eleventh-hour pruning that has left the film about 15 minutes shorter than its officially stated running time, any real sort of plotting or character development appears to have been left on the cutting-room floor along with all traces of Daryl Hannah's performance.
What's left is a lot of racing footage interspersed with a flimsy David vs. Goliath story which begs the question: Will its target audience willingly pay to see what they can watch on TV for free, minus the intrusive made-up bits?
Set in an odd, Southern California parallel universe where virtually everybody is Caucasian, the picture follows the intersecting paths taken by K.C. (Steve Howey) and Trip (Mike Vogel) Carlyle, a pair of brothers who run a pool-cleaning business but whose hearts are in Supercross.
The more disciplined of the two, K.C. ends up getting a flashy "factory" (corporate sponsored) ride, which drives a philosophical as well as a competitive wedge between the siblings. Trip ends up going the less glamorous, unsponsored "privateer" route, but fate ultimately intervenes, forcing these would-be rivals to put aside their difference and join forces to defeat the powerful bad guys.
Directed by stuntman-turned-filmmaker Steve Boyum, the vehicle dutifully goes along an uninspired path mapped out by screenwriters Ken Solarz and Bart Baker that still allows for earnest emoting from its young cast members. Joining Howey and Vogel are Cameron Richardson and Sophia Bush as the brothers' love interests, and the more seasoned Robert Carradine and Robert Patrick as the controlling corporate heavy and the noble independent spirit, who serve, for better or worse, as the boys' respective father figures.
Getting to the main event, filmed at the real-life Supercross finals in Las Vegas, the high-energy footage is competent but falls short of spectacular. Maybe it would have been a better idea to simply skip the fiction altogether and just show those real-life bikers doing their extreme thing, uninterrupted by cutaway close-ups of the actors pretending to be them.
Supercross: The Movie
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox presents a TAG Entertainment production in association with Clear Channel Entertainment Motor Sports
Credits:
Director: Steve Boyum
Screenwriters: Ken Solarz, Bart Baker
Story by: Bart Baker, Keith Alan Bernstein
Producers: Steve Austin, J. Todd Harris
Executive producers: Richard Gabai, Marc Toberoff, Jonathan Bogner, David Borg
Director of photography: William Wages
Production designer: Max Biscoe
Editors: Alan Cody, Brett Hedlund
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Music: Jasper Randall
Cast:
K.C. Carlyle: Steve Howey
Trip Carlyle: Mike Vogel
Piper Cole: Cameron Richardson
Zoe Lang: Sophia Bush
Owen Cole: Aaron Carter
Rowdy Sparks: Channing Tatum
Earl Cole: Robert Patrick
Clay Sparks: Robert Carradine
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 80 minutes...
Produced in association with Clear Channel Entertainment's Motor Sports division, which sponsors the Supercross bike-racing competition, the production attempts to dress up the corporate synergy in the guise of a fictionalized story of two racing brothers, but the resulting mix of ESPN-style visuals and WB Network-style dramatics never convincingly comes together.
Thanks to an eleventh-hour pruning that has left the film about 15 minutes shorter than its officially stated running time, any real sort of plotting or character development appears to have been left on the cutting-room floor along with all traces of Daryl Hannah's performance.
What's left is a lot of racing footage interspersed with a flimsy David vs. Goliath story which begs the question: Will its target audience willingly pay to see what they can watch on TV for free, minus the intrusive made-up bits?
Set in an odd, Southern California parallel universe where virtually everybody is Caucasian, the picture follows the intersecting paths taken by K.C. (Steve Howey) and Trip (Mike Vogel) Carlyle, a pair of brothers who run a pool-cleaning business but whose hearts are in Supercross.
The more disciplined of the two, K.C. ends up getting a flashy "factory" (corporate sponsored) ride, which drives a philosophical as well as a competitive wedge between the siblings. Trip ends up going the less glamorous, unsponsored "privateer" route, but fate ultimately intervenes, forcing these would-be rivals to put aside their difference and join forces to defeat the powerful bad guys.
Directed by stuntman-turned-filmmaker Steve Boyum, the vehicle dutifully goes along an uninspired path mapped out by screenwriters Ken Solarz and Bart Baker that still allows for earnest emoting from its young cast members. Joining Howey and Vogel are Cameron Richardson and Sophia Bush as the brothers' love interests, and the more seasoned Robert Carradine and Robert Patrick as the controlling corporate heavy and the noble independent spirit, who serve, for better or worse, as the boys' respective father figures.
Getting to the main event, filmed at the real-life Supercross finals in Las Vegas, the high-energy footage is competent but falls short of spectacular. Maybe it would have been a better idea to simply skip the fiction altogether and just show those real-life bikers doing their extreme thing, uninterrupted by cutaway close-ups of the actors pretending to be them.
Supercross: The Movie
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox presents a TAG Entertainment production in association with Clear Channel Entertainment Motor Sports
Credits:
Director: Steve Boyum
Screenwriters: Ken Solarz, Bart Baker
Story by: Bart Baker, Keith Alan Bernstein
Producers: Steve Austin, J. Todd Harris
Executive producers: Richard Gabai, Marc Toberoff, Jonathan Bogner, David Borg
Director of photography: William Wages
Production designer: Max Biscoe
Editors: Alan Cody, Brett Hedlund
Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo
Music: Jasper Randall
Cast:
K.C. Carlyle: Steve Howey
Trip Carlyle: Mike Vogel
Piper Cole: Cameron Richardson
Zoe Lang: Sophia Bush
Owen Cole: Aaron Carter
Rowdy Sparks: Channing Tatum
Earl Cole: Robert Patrick
Clay Sparks: Robert Carradine
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 80 minutes...
Steve Howey and Mike Vogel are set for lead roles in the Steve Boyum-helmed actioner Supercross: The Movie alongside Daryl Hannah, Robert Patrick, Aaron Carter, Cameron Richardson, Ryan Locke, Sophia Bush, Robert Carradine and newcomers Channing Tatum, JD Pardo, Carolyn Garcia. TAG Entertainment is producing the project, which marks the indie outfit's largest production to date. 20th Century Fox is near acquiring domestic distribution rights to the film in a negative pickup. Penned by Ken Solarz, the motorcycle saga revolves around two brothers (Howey, Vogel) making their way into the world of competitive motorcycle racing. Hannah will play their mother.
Beyond a few mildly entertaining plot twists, a good cast and a standout sequence or two, "City of Industry" is a competent, engaging film noir but hardly memorable once the curtain falls on another bad trip into the Los Angeles underworld.
Veteran director John Irvin ("A Month by the Lake", TNT's "Crazy Horse") and screenwriter Ken Solarz ("Miami Vice", "Crime Story") shoot for neorealism and a whirlwind tour of Southern California 'hoods, giving the Orion Pictures' release a slight foothold above the many recent genre retreads that have failed to win over audiences.
The film has characters with some -- but not too much -- depth and a pleasingly looser feeling than such mind-benders as the tightly constructed "The Usual Suspects". One comes to care for the scrambling antiheroes, but the scenario walks a thin line between westernlike hokum and homage to the many classic cinematic renditions of lowlife losers with guns and gusto for the criminal life.
Harvey Keitel is once again the backbone of a film that otherwise might fall apart. Joined by Stephen Dorff and Famke Janssen as nemesis and ally, respectively, Keitel plays a career con man with the painful struggle of his life etched on his face. His conscience and morality are wasted on the new generation of tough guys, however, as he soon finds out.
Roy (Keitel) is recruited by his younger brother Lee (Timothy Hutton) to help rob a Palm Springs jewelry store. The quartet for the job, which could net millions, includes prison-bound probationer Jorge Wade Dominguez) and wheelman Skip (Dorff).
After his introduction buying guns from black marketers (including Michael Jai White and Reno Wilson), Skip is easily identified as the baddest element among bad men. After the successful heist, which is not without several tense moments, he shoots up his partners in a trailer and makes off with the loot.
Roy barely escapes and then seeks revenge against Skip, hooking up eventually with Jorge's wife (Janssen). In one of several scenes in which characters say something unexpected, she agrees to help Roy find Skip if she gets a big chunk of the money.
Indeed, the film provides momentary amusement with this tactic, but the result is still the same. Roy goes on a manhunt that takes him into Chinatown and Azusa. Several opponents are done away with by an exploding propane tank at a sleazy motel, and Roy miraculously escapes assassins when he's bound in the back seat of their car.
While Keitel's blood pressure seems to be almost off the dial as he broods and takes on the role of an avenging samurai (with enough honor to keep Janssen out of harm's way when possible), Dorff has his share of scary moments as the wiry sociopath Skip, a scavenger and carnivore who ends up ranting and making mistakes like every villain in such circumstances.
Filmed at many familiar locales (the L.A. River, Elysian Park, the old oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs used in "White Heat") and unfamiliar but generic locations, "City of Industry" is solid in all its technical aspects.
CITY OF INDUSTRY
Orion Pictures
Largo Entertainment
An Evzen Kolar production
A film by John Irvin
Director John Irvin
Producers Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Writer Ken Solarz
Executive producer Barr Potter
Director of photography Thomas Burstyn
Music Stephen Endelman
Production designer Michael Novotny
Editor Mark Conte
Costume designer Eduardo Castro
Casting Henderson/Zuckerman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Roy Harvey Keitel
Skip Stephen Dorff
Lee Timothy Hutton
Rachel Famke Janssen
Jorge Wade Dominguez
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Veteran director John Irvin ("A Month by the Lake", TNT's "Crazy Horse") and screenwriter Ken Solarz ("Miami Vice", "Crime Story") shoot for neorealism and a whirlwind tour of Southern California 'hoods, giving the Orion Pictures' release a slight foothold above the many recent genre retreads that have failed to win over audiences.
The film has characters with some -- but not too much -- depth and a pleasingly looser feeling than such mind-benders as the tightly constructed "The Usual Suspects". One comes to care for the scrambling antiheroes, but the scenario walks a thin line between westernlike hokum and homage to the many classic cinematic renditions of lowlife losers with guns and gusto for the criminal life.
Harvey Keitel is once again the backbone of a film that otherwise might fall apart. Joined by Stephen Dorff and Famke Janssen as nemesis and ally, respectively, Keitel plays a career con man with the painful struggle of his life etched on his face. His conscience and morality are wasted on the new generation of tough guys, however, as he soon finds out.
Roy (Keitel) is recruited by his younger brother Lee (Timothy Hutton) to help rob a Palm Springs jewelry store. The quartet for the job, which could net millions, includes prison-bound probationer Jorge Wade Dominguez) and wheelman Skip (Dorff).
After his introduction buying guns from black marketers (including Michael Jai White and Reno Wilson), Skip is easily identified as the baddest element among bad men. After the successful heist, which is not without several tense moments, he shoots up his partners in a trailer and makes off with the loot.
Roy barely escapes and then seeks revenge against Skip, hooking up eventually with Jorge's wife (Janssen). In one of several scenes in which characters say something unexpected, she agrees to help Roy find Skip if she gets a big chunk of the money.
Indeed, the film provides momentary amusement with this tactic, but the result is still the same. Roy goes on a manhunt that takes him into Chinatown and Azusa. Several opponents are done away with by an exploding propane tank at a sleazy motel, and Roy miraculously escapes assassins when he's bound in the back seat of their car.
While Keitel's blood pressure seems to be almost off the dial as he broods and takes on the role of an avenging samurai (with enough honor to keep Janssen out of harm's way when possible), Dorff has his share of scary moments as the wiry sociopath Skip, a scavenger and carnivore who ends up ranting and making mistakes like every villain in such circumstances.
Filmed at many familiar locales (the L.A. River, Elysian Park, the old oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs used in "White Heat") and unfamiliar but generic locations, "City of Industry" is solid in all its technical aspects.
CITY OF INDUSTRY
Orion Pictures
Largo Entertainment
An Evzen Kolar production
A film by John Irvin
Director John Irvin
Producers Evzen Kolar, Ken Solarz
Writer Ken Solarz
Executive producer Barr Potter
Director of photography Thomas Burstyn
Music Stephen Endelman
Production designer Michael Novotny
Editor Mark Conte
Costume designer Eduardo Castro
Casting Henderson/Zuckerman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Roy Harvey Keitel
Skip Stephen Dorff
Lee Timothy Hutton
Rachel Famke Janssen
Jorge Wade Dominguez
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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