6 items from 2012
30 May 2012 3:47 PM, PDT | Fox All Access | See recent Fox All Access news »
For four decades, Samuel L. Jackson has been a working actor and today is considered one of the best actors working in film. Over his incredible career, Jackson has worked with some of the greatest directors the big screen has ever seen, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino.
Jackson has worked on classic films such as Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction, and got to live his boyhood dreams starring in action movies, including The Avengers, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and Star Wars Episodes 1-3. Films that Jackson has made have grossed over $3 billion, making him one of the highest grossing actors in movie history.
Before reaching stardom, Jackson was a struggling actor going from acting job to acting job. We spoke to Jackson and asked him if he recalls his first acting job. (Click on the audio player to hear Samuel L. Jackson) Samuel k jackson
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18 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
If this long-overdue Blu-ray reissue hadn’t come about, this franchise would have thoroughly deserved a HeyUGuys Video Vault special anyway. With recent news of a fifth instalment (A Good Day To Die Hard) going ahead, it is an ideal time to re-evaluate the existing entries in this genre-defining series and see what a Blu-ray brush-up has done to them.
Die Hard came towards the end of a decade that was characterised, at least within the action genre, by one-man-machine films. Rambo, Commando, Predator, Cobra, Dtv entries from Dolph Lundgren and the burgeoning attempts of Seagal and Van Damme, all vied for our attention. Then along came Die Hard.
Its director, John McTiernan, had already visited the genre to considerable success and acclaim with Arnie’s none-more-eighties Predator, but this was something else entirely. So familiar has the skyscraper-high concept become (one man, stuck with a load of terrorists, fighting »
- Dave Roper
4 April 2012 8:35 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
James Cameron is, in case it has escaped your attention, the most successful filmmaker in history. The Canadian director hadn't exactly been starved for box-office smashes early in his career, but his last two films, "Titanic" and "Avatar," have hauled in nearly $5 billion between them, and are currently the number one and number two hits of all time. He's also the man behind the "Terminator" franchise, helmed one of the best-liked of the "Alien" series, has become a deep-sea explorer, and, uh, gave the world flying piranhas.
This week sees "Titanic" back on screens in post-converted 3D form, and given that we're still at least two years away from seeing the filmmaker's next work ("Avatar 2" and "Avatar 3" are currently targeted for around 2014/2015), it seemed like a good opportunity to look back on his career and see how he went from a visual effects whiz on "Escape From New York »
- Oliver Lyttelton
13 March 2012 5:35 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
You may associate Jeremy Irons with his role as the villainous Simon Gruber from Die Hard: With a Vengeance, or perhaps the just-as-villainous lion Scar in The Lion King. More recently, he.s been playing the scheming and corrupt Rodrigo Borgia in Showtime.s drama The Borgias. Irons may be lending his substantial talent to the film adaptation of Beautiful Creatures. Based on a novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures tells the story of teenagers Ethan and Lena, two star-crossed lovers .who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town.. Richard Lagravenese is set to direct the adaptation, while Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann, Jack O.Connell, and Alice Englert are already on board to star. Deadline shared the announcement today that Jeremy Irons is in final negotiations to join the cast of the movie. Assuming all goes as planned, he »
12 March 2012 2:33 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The Original Playstation; the console that launched a thousand games, the triumphant first foray into the console market for the Japanese company known as Sony. But for a console with so many games to its name, just which ones are worth playing? Well, you don’t have to play them all because WhatCulture has taken the time to find out for you, sit back and enjoy our definitive top ten.
In the early nineties things were looking up for video games, since the crash of the mid-eighties the industry had gone from strength to strength, helped by the fact that games are awesome! Home consoles were more popular than ever, with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Mega Drive leading the way. While Nintendo and Sega battled it out for the 16-bit console era in the early nineties, the next generation was glistening on the horizon.
The mighty »
- Rob John Downer
2 February 2012 11:01 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
John McClane is undoubtedly one of the best action heros of all time, now with four of his crime stopping adventures made into big budget Hollywood hits (I presume he’s defeated way more bad guys when the cameras weren’t around). Perhaps the last one got a little silly and those die hard Die Hard fans (I know, pretty good right?) would prefer that it wasn’t even made, but definitely the first three are absolute classic action heaven. Imagine a game that let you relive the first three movies at home on your console, with all the action and gun touting cop-fun… Well you don’t have to imagine it. It happened and it was like 16 years ago, keep up.
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Die Hard Trilogy was released at the latter end of 1996 in various places around the world that video games get released. The Die Hard »
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6 items from 2012
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