Written & Directed By: Sion Sono
Cinematography By: Hideo Yamamoto
Editor: Jun’ichi Ito
Cast: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaido, Shin’ichi Tsutisumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino, Tomochika
A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
Tag: ACTION
HELL RIDE (2008)
Written & Directed By: Larry Bishop
Cinematography By: Scott Kevan
Editor: Blake West & William Yeh
Cast: Larry Bishop, Leonor Valera, Eric Balfour, Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, Vinnie Jones, Julia Jones, David Carradine, Michael Beach
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six’s, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
SUCKER PUNCH (2011)
Story & Directed By: Zach Snyder
Written By: Zach Snyder & Steve Shibuya
Cinematography By: Larry Fong
Editor: William Hoy
Cast: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish, Carla Gugino, Oscar Issac, Scott Glenn, Jon Hamm
A young girl (Baby Doll) is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days’ time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it’s too late…
GANGSTER SQUAD (2013)
Directed By: Ruben Fleischer
Written By: Will Beall
Based On The Book By: Paul Lieberman
Cinematography By: Dion Beebe
Editor: Alan Baumgarten & James Herbert
Cast: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Michael Pena, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Robert Patrick, Mireille Enos, Troy Garity, Nick Nolte De’Aundre Bonds, Giovanni Ribisi, Jon Polito, Michael Bacall, Don Harvey, Derek Mears
It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Seargant John O’Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O’Mara to lead the unit. O’Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen’s people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen’s organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it’s the cops.
REDEMPTION (AKA HUMMINGBIRD) (2013)
Written & Directed By: Steven Knight
Cinematography By: Chris Menges
Editor: Valerio Bonelli
Cast: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London’s criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man’s identity — transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
HITMAN (2007)
Directed By: Xavier Gens
Written By: Skip Woods
Cinematography By: Laurent Bares
Editor: Carlo Rizzo & Antoine Vareille
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Henry Ian Cusick, Eriq Ebounaey
A gun-for-hire “Hitman” is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Organization’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. But even 47 couldn’t anticipate a “random equation” in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman.
300: RISE OF THE EMPIRE (2014)
Directed By: Noam Murro
Written By: Zack Snyder & Kurt Johnstad
Based On the Graphic Novel “XERCES” By: Frank Miller
Cinematography By: Simon Duggan
Editor: David Brenner & Wyatt Smith
Production Design By: Patrick Tatopoulos
Cast: Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro, Jack O’Connell, Peter Mensah
After its victory over Leonidas’ 300, the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes’ army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land
THE EQUALIZER (2014)
Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
Written By: Richard Wenk
Based on the Series Created By: Michael Sloan & Richard Lindheim
Cinematography By: Mauro Fiore
Editor: John Refoua
Cast: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett, Melissa Leo, Bill Pullman, James Wilcox
A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her.
EVERLY (2015)
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Yale Hannon
Story By: Yale Hannon & Joe Lynch
Cinematography By: Steve Gainer
Editor: Evan Schiff
Cast: Salma Hayek, Jennifer Blanc, Togo Igawa, Gabriella Wright
An action/thriller centered on a woman who faces down assassins sent by her ex, a mob boss, while holed up in her apartment.
SAVAGES (2012)
Directed By: Oliver Stone
Written By: Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno & Don Winslow
Based on the novel by: Don Winslow
Cinematography By: Daniel Mindel
Editor: Joe Hutshing, Stuart Levy & Alex Marquez
Cast: Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Travolta, Benecio Del Toro, Shea Whigham, Demian Bichir, Salma Hayeck, Emile Hirsch, Joel David Moore, Ali Wong Continue reading “SAVAGES (2012)”
