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25 April 2012 2:43 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

Director John Hillcoat assembles a spectacular cast for the uncompromising period drama, Lawless. Here’s the first trailer…

By the end of this summer, it’s just possible that you’ll be crying out to see a movie that isn’t dominated by men in capes or lots of glossy CG effects. If so, John Hillcoat’s Lawless may be just the antidote to a summer of comic book movies – and it’s unlikely you’ll see a starrier cast outside of The Dark Knight Rises.

Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce are just a few of the acting heavyweights to star in Hillcoat’s movie, formerly known as The Wettest County In The World. A Depression-era drama about a gang of bootleggers operating in Franklin County, Virginia, it’s a raw, uncompromising-looking drama with flashes of violence which, for some reason, remind me of John Milius’ excellent 1973 film, »

12 April 2012 7:04 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

All those who complain about the liberal domination of Hollywood have never come across John Milius. A film school pal of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Milius had tried to join the Marine Corp, but was turned away due to his asthma. Instead, he channeled his frustrations into both a life-long obsession with firearms (he was paid for "Jeremiah Johnson" in antique weaponry, and has served on the NRA Board of Directors) and making some of the most masculine, testosterone-filled movies of all time, both as an acclaimed writer and as a director. The basis for both Paul Le Mat's character in "American Graffiti" and Walter in "The Big Lebowski" -- the Coens are friends of Milius, and offered him the part of Jack Lipnick in "Barton Fink" -- he's one of film history's most singular, colorful characters.

He might not have had the overwhelming success of Lucas or Spielberg, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

6 April 2012 7:01 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Tuesday marked thirty years since the untimely passing of Warren Oates. The great, grizzled actor's work has fallen somewhat out of fashion these days -- few, bar perhaps Quentin Tarantino, name Sam Peckinpah or Monte Hellman, Oates' closest and most frequent collaborators, as influences. If you're familiar with him at all, it's likely from his parts as outlaw Lyle Gorch in "The Wild Bunch" or as Sgt. Hulka in Bill Murray comedy "Stripes." But for a time in the 1970s, Oates was Hollywood's go-to badass character actor, a man who everyone from Norman Jewison and William Friedkin to Steven Spielberg and Terrence Malick wanted to work with.

Born in Depoy, Kentucky in 1928, Oates discovered acting at the University of Louisville, and soon headed west to L.A. where he swiftly became a regular face in the golden era of TV westerns, including parts on "Rawhide," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," "Have Gun - Will Travel »

- Oliver Lyttelton

3 items from 2012