What’s Out This Week? – August 2, 2013
Tag: Denzel Washington
Netflix Streaming Pick of the Week: The Siege
An eerily relevant film, when ‘The Siege,’ came out in 1998, we never would have thought how different the world would be just a few years later. The film tells the story of Denzel Washington, an FBI Agent tasked with hunting down a terrorist cell operating in New York. ‘The Siege,’ poses the question, how …
Cronenberg Directing Cruise and Washington in “Matarese Circle”
David Cronenberg, best known for making some of the creepiest (and best) movies of the past two decades has reportedly signed to direct Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington in “The Matarese Circle.” The script is by the guys who wrote “Wanted,” and based on the Robert Ludlum novel. It’s about two long-time rival spies who …
“Taking of Pelham” Poster Released
If I wasn’t looking forward to this movie before, this poster isn’t helping. The photo-shop job on Tony Scott’s latest assault on cinema doesn’t tease as much as assure me that there is no need to see this movie. The original, which is wonderful, is still available and still worth seeing. Maybe we, as a …
DVD Review: American Gangster
It seems that if you are a working filmmaker in America these days, at some point, you will make a mob movie. It’s Ridley Scott’s turn and his effort is ‘American Gangster,’ starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.