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Last Flag Flying (Cinema Review)

24th January 2018 By Tim Isaac

Starring: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson, Deanna Reed-Foster
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Running time: 125 mins
BBFC Certificate: 15
UK Release Date: January 26th 2018

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Several films have taken Hollywood by surprise in recent years by finding an older audience than the male teen dudes the City of Angels believe are the only people who go to the pictures any more. From Wild Hogs to A Late Quartet and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, films with older characters having a crisis have actually found an audience – and a big one. Obviously, the quality is always going to be patchy. Wild Hogs, about three middle-aged men getting back on their Harleys, was juvenile and dull in the extreme, but it did prove not every Hollywood film needs to have nubile bodies in bikinis running around a beach.

Which brings us to Last Flag Flying. Like Wild Hogs it features three men who have seen better days, and features them hitting the road for one last adventure. However, the tone here is far more serious. Steve Carell’s son has been killed in action in the Iraq war in 2003, and, as his wife has died of breast cancer. With no one else to turn to, he looks up his two old buddies, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne. They are much changed however. Cranston is an alcoholic running a grubby bar, while Fishburne is a preacher. Both are trying to forget their past. The marines want to bury Carell’s son in Arlington cemetery “like a true hero”, but he wants to take him back to New Hampshire and bury him in his graduation gown, not his uniform. So the three of them set off on an unlikely road trip. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson, Deanna Reed-Foster  DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  

Robert Downey Jr. & Richard Linklater Team For Real-Life Con Man Tale

15th February 2017 By Tim Isaac

Richard Linklater went from the Oscar-winning triumph of Boyhood to a ho-hum reception for Everybody Wants Some!!, his spiritual successor to his breakthrough Dazed & Confused. Now he’s putting together something rather different to both those movies, as it’s been announced he’s teaming with Robert Downey Jr. for a real-life con man tale.

The movie will be based around an episode of the Reply All podcast titled ‘Man of the People’, which ‘tells the true story of charlatan Dr. John Brinkley who scams his way to fame and fortune using fake medicine, populism, and the newest technology of the time: radio. As Brinkley’s fame grows, he gets the attention of Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the AMA who begins a decade long quest to take him down. REPLY ALL, a show that features stories about how people shape technology, and how technology shapes people, aired “Man of the People” on January 19, 2017.’

It sounds like a good fit for the duo, with Downey Jr. set to play Brinkley, while his nemesis is yet to be cast. Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures is producing the movie, which as-yet doesn’t have a title.

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ACTORS: Robert Downey Jr.  DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  

Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, & Laurence Fishburne In Talks For Richard Linklater’s Next Film

31st August 2016 By Tim Isaac

bryan-cranstonA full decade ago Richard Linklater revealed that he was working on an adaptation Darryl Ponicsan‘s Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, which was made into a film in 1973 by Hal Ashby. At the time he was trying to get Randy Quaid and Jack Nicholson to return, but that never happened.

However, now the Boyhood helmer is back on the project, which will now only be a ‘sort of’ sequel. THR reports that he’s starting to put the cast together, with Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne all in talks to star. The Last Detail, ‘centers on two Navy men (Nicholson, Young) who are ordered to bring a young offender (Quaid) to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way. Last Flag reunites the reader with the trio, now living a post-9/11 American life: The former Naval petty officers come to the aid of their former prisoner, who needs their help to bring home the body of his son who was killed in Iraq. The request sends them back retracing their journey from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, N.H.’

Linklater is hoping to start shooting the film in November.

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ACTORS: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne  DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  

Everybody Wants Some!! Red Band Trailer – Richard Linklater heads for college

14th March 2016 By Tim Isaac

everybody-wants-some-slideFollowing its warmly received debut at SXSW on Friday, a red band trailer for Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! has arrived. You can take a look at it below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From the acclaimed writer and director of the Academy award-winning Boyhood, Richard Linklater returns with EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, a spiritual sequel to his 1993 breakthrough, Dazed & Confused.

‘Set in the world of 1980s college life, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! follows a freshman’s first weekend of college, experiencing a fraternity-like lifestyle with his hard-partying teammates as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.’

It’ll be in UK cinemas on May 13th. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  

Everybody Wants Some Trailer – Richard Linklater returns to a nostalgia for youth

22nd December 2015 By Tim Isaac

everybody-wants-someAfter the massive success of his ambitious Boyhood, Richard Linklater is sticking with his love of tales about growing up with Everybody Wants Some, which has been described as a spiritual sequel to Dazed & Confused. Although it’s not due out for a few months, the first trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set in the world of 1980s college life, Everybody Wants Some is a comedy, directed and written by Richard Linklater, that follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.’

If you watch the trailer below, you can certainly see why it’s been compared to Linklater’s wonderful 1004 movie Dazed & Confused, which chronicled the final day of high school for a group of 1970s high school students. This time he’s moving to college, but it seems he’s going for a similar mix of humour, nostalgia and serious points that marked his earlier movie.

The film will premiere at SXSW in March, and should hit cinemas not too long afterwards. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  

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