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Mile 22 Trailer – Mark Wahlberg reteams with Pete Berg for an action thriller

15th May 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Mark Wahlberg and director Pete Berg sure like one another. After Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Patriot’s Day, they’ve got back together for Mile 22, and once more it’s taking them into heroic action territory.

Here’s the brief synopsis: ‘In this heart-racing action thriller, a CIA agent stationed in Indonesia is tasked with transporting an informant whose identity has been discovered, from the center of the city to an awaiting getaway plane at an airport 22 miles away. While en route, they must battle corrupt police, criminal overlords and heavily-armed locals, all hell-bent on taking them out before they reach their plane.’

The trailer for the film has now arrived, which you can take a look at below. The film will be in UK cinemas in August. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Peter Berg  

All The Money In The World Trailer – Kevin Spacey is J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s kidnapping movie

16th September 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

When most people get a little older they start to slow down and contemplate retirement. However, others start working even harder. One of those people is 79-year-old Ridley Scott. Not content with having directed a bid budget sci-fi movie this year (Alien: Covenant) has decided to squeeze in a drama as well – All The Money In The World.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son’s captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son’s life in the balance, Gail and Getty’s advisor (Mark Wahlberg) become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.’

Take a look at the trailer below. The film is out in early December in the US will arrive in the UK a month later. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Ridley Scott  

Patriot’s Day (Blu-ray Review)

25th June 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, JK Simmons, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan
Directed By: Peter Berg
Running Time: 133 mins
BBFC Certificate: 15
UK Release Date: June 26th 2017 (UK)

Our Score

It’s April 15, 2013 and Police Sgt Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) is preparing to provide security at the annual Boston Marathon. Along with various other people, he’s hoping for a great, celebratory day. However, that is ripped apart when twin explosion go off near the marathon finishing line, killing and maiming those who were there to cheer the runners as they completed the course. Tommy immediately puts his training into action to help those affected, even though he and the other people around don’t know whether there are any other bombs timed to go off.

Patriot’s Day then charts the days after the attack, when the FBI comes in to work with the police to find out who the bombers are, combing CCTV footage and following leads. Then there are the terrorists themselves, the Tsarnaev brothers, who haven’t finished their rampage, and become increasingly dangerous as the net closes in.

Director Peter Berg and actor Mark Wahlberg are becoming a bit of a real-life tragedy team, following Lone Survivor, Deep Horizon and now Patriot’s Day. As with their earlier movies, they successfully tread a very fine line between ensuring the movie is watchable and interesting, without making it feel exploitative.

Taking a strongly fact-based and sometimes fairly forensic approach – including incorporating images and CCTV from the real-life events – it is a stirring, dedicated and sometimes moving re-enactment, which sometimes verges on docu-drama. There’s a fascinating mix of powerful recreation of parts of the story that most people will know, alongside the lesser known aspects, including some very intense moments that help viewers more fully realise what happened but which, unlike the actual bombing, wasn’t captured on camera at the time. It also makes you realise quite how brave the police were, and how it was almost a miracle that more people didn’t die.

Patriot’s Day also benefits from taking a broad approach to the events. While Wahlberg is nominally the main characters, it also spends plenty of time with others involved in the bombing, including other policemen, those injured in the explosions, the FBI, those around the bombers, and the young Chinese man who was carjacked by the Tsarnaevs. These scenes involving Dun Meng (Jimmy O. Yang) are particularly tense, with the entrepreneur suddenly caught up in a very dangerous situation through no fault of his own.

While many films would have painted the bombers as moustache twirling villains, Patriot’s Day is smarter than that. By showing that they were just people – albeit extremely misguided and foul people – rather than some faceless, evil, ‘other’, it becomes all the more disquieting. The film compares the strong-willed, angry, true-believer older brother, Tamerlan, with his more laidback, Americanised younger sibling, Dzhokhar. It’s a familiar family dynamic, which becomes more disturbing as you realise that these are people who aren’t quite so different to the rest of us as we might like to believe (except, of course, in some extremely important ways).

Ultimately, it becomes a movie less about wallowing in tragedy and more about the human spirit, as well as how people and the city of Boston responded to what had happened. It suggests that they did so with love, compassion for one another and a resolution not to allow the bombing to bring them down. Patriot’s Day is a salute to the city as much as it is a retelling of the events, and it work well as both – and thankfully despite the title, it doesn’t drip itself in so much ‘Ooorah’ American-ness that it overpowers the human connection at the heart of the movie.

The Blu-ray includes some interesting featurettes involving the real people depicted in the movie, which helps show both how accurate the film is, as well as underlining the ‘Boston Strong’ spirit. It’s genuinely fascinating what many of these people have to say. It also helps demonstrate how some of the more improbable, and seemingly ‘Hollywood’, moments in the movie are actually true. That includes a scene where Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese has a long stream of bullets fired at him by one of the Tsarnaevs, but none hit him. In the special features, they get him Pugliese to stand where he did at the time, while behind him the bullet holes still pepper the house.

It’s a great package for a good film. It’s not often that you can say that the special features are as inspiring as the film they accompany, but in this case it’s true, helping to prove that it’s not just a Hollywood film trying to find some good in something very bad, it’s true of how those involved feel.

Overall Verdict: A tense, well-researched and often fascinating recreation of the Boston Marathon Bombing and its aftermath, which illuminates not just the events, but the power of the human spirit that the explosions revealed.

Reviewer: Tim Isaac

Special Features:
‘Boston Strong: True Stories Of Courage’ Featurettes
‘Researching The Day’ Featurette
‘The Boston Bond: Recounting The Tale’ Featurette
‘The Real Patriots: The Local Heroes’ Story’ Featurette
‘The Cast Remembers’ Featurette
‘Actors Meet Real-Life Counterparts’ Featurettes

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ACTORS: Mark Wahlberg, JK Simmons, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan  DIRECTORS: Peter Berg  FILMS: Patriots Day  

Daddy’s Home 2 Trailer – Mel Gibson & John Lithgow join Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg

17th June 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

In the latest example of Hollywood’s love of making sequels to films nobody particularly wants, comes Daddy’s Home 2 – the follow-up to the 2015 movie that most people had already forgotten existed. To help ensure people turn up for this new film, Wahlberg and Ferrell will be joined by John Lithgow and Hollywood’s favourite racist, Mel Gibson.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In Daddy’s Home 2, father and stepfather, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) and Brad (Will Ferrell) have joined forces to provide their kids with the perfect Christmas. Their newfound partnership is put to the test when Dusty’s old-school, macho Dad (Mel Gibson) and Brad’s ultra-affectionate and emotional Dad (John Lithgow) arrive just in time to throw the holiday into complete chaos.’

The film should be out towards the end of the year. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg  

New Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer – Michael Bay is blowing up the bots again

12th April 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If you were wondering whether, for his last Transformers movie, Michael Bay would make a small, arthouse-style drama, this trailer is here to says that no, you were a moron to think that. Instead – and despite Bay promising changes – it’s going to be as big, bombastic and literally explosive as previous instalments.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.’

The movie will be in cinemas in June. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Michael Bay  FILMS: Transformers: The Last Knight  

Transformers: The Last Knight Super Bowl Spot – And Michael Bay says again he’s leaving the franchise

5th February 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Michael Bay said he was only directing three Transformers films, but then he agreed to make a fourth. That though, he said, would definitely be the last, before he signed on to help a fifth one. However, this time he seems to really mean it, as alongside The Last Knight’s Super Bowl spot, Bay has released a statement underlining that this will be his final time as director (although he does leave the door open).

He also seems keen to suggest this film will be a bit of a departure from what’s gone before, although I’m sure that doesn’t mean he will have given up on exploding everything in site. Take a look at Bay’s statement below and the new Super Bowl spot underneath that.

I’ve been living in this franchise for over 10 years now. For Transformers: The Last Knight, we put together a writers’ room designed to greatly expand our mythology, integrating our films in a whole new way. Every movie will interlink.

It was a huge task to expand mythology from the beginning of the world throughout history. We had a great team of writers: Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind); Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man); Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down); Zak Penn (Ready Player One); Lindsey Beer (Barbie); Geneva RobertsonDworet (Tomb Raider); Christina Hodson (Bumblebee); Steven DeKnight (Daredevil, Smallville); Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Lost); and Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man).

Through the summer of 2015, they worked in a huge space on the Paramount lot, surrounded by over 10,000 concept images from the franchise’s history: the movies, cartoons, and comic books. They had a life-size Bumblebee, a Megatron head, and many other props staring them down. We pulled from everything. It was a fan’s dream room.

We brought in Transformers historians from Hasbro to educate them on where Transformers has been – so that they could figure out where it can go. I can safely say that there’s never been a Transformers film with the huge visual scope and expansive mythology as this movie, The Last Knight.

It’s bittersweet for me. With every Transformers film, I’ve said it would be my last. I see the 120 million fans around the world who see these movies, the huge theme park lines to the ride and the amazing Make- A-Wish kids who visit my sets, and it somehow keeps drawing me back. I love doing these movies. This film was especially fun to shoot. But, this time might really be it. So I’m blowing this one out.

It’s a final chapter and a new beginning. Here’s the writers’ log line:

The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference.

In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Michael Bay  FILMS: Transformers: The Last Knight  
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