Despite his humble onscreen beginnings - playing an extra in Charles Bronson's Death Wish - Denzel Washington has slowly become one of the best actors of his generation, if not all-time. Talk about range: The New York native has pretty much cornered the

Amid all the aggressive dream engineering and very loud horns of Christopher Nolan's Inception, Tom Hardy managed to stand out as the debonair, scene stealing, dry-witted Eames. It was Hardy’s big-time introduction to American audiences, though he’d alre

There are many ways to become famous overnight. Earlier this week I told you about how Christina Perri went from working at a cafe one day to becoming an “overnight” sensation the very next. The secret to success for Christina or any artist, creative, jo

I'm so glad this game has shaped into what it is now, because when I first heard that Sleeping Dogs was originally titled True Crime: Hong Kong, I thought to myself, "Damn it, hopefully this will be a short demo." Once I saw the game in action, though, a

Beat Takeshi (Takeshi Kitano) is a badass in the Charles Bronson vein. As an actor he has perfected that stoic, grim-faced tough guy persona who, though he may not look like much, can snap out of his quiet pose and kill the living hell out of you. Not on

“I smell dead people.” In 2009, he released Blood Vice , an exceptional novel that I described as a “perfect graft of noir fictio

Synopsis: Seasoned hitman Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) sets out to avenge the brutal murder of his mentor, Harry (Donald Sutherland), and finds himself joined by Harry's vengeful son (Ben Foster), who is eager to follow in his late father's footsteps, i

Unfortunately, Miami doesn't have a Nicholson and a Hopper to help make his movies truly "B" -- or do we? If Dillard's Deathprint is any indication, we

It’s time. The winged chariot at my back, and all that. Taking a seat on one of the comfortable couches at the National Gallery in Ottawa, I mentally strap myself in. It’s time to take a time bath, to run a time marathon, by watching Christian Marclay’s

If Ford plays Deckard 30 years in the future, that would answer the question of whether or not he’s a replicant. Hard not to be excited about this, especially if Ridley Scott returns. There are so many possibilities, so many places to go with the charact

I just watched The Dirty Dozen, a 1967 war film with an ensemble cast headlined by Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, and Telly Savalas. The premise is simple, if a bit implausible: Marvin is hard-as-nails Major wit

Director Joe Carnahan recently revealed that he was scripting a role for The Grey's Frank Grillo for his reboot of Death Wish. Now Grillo has done an interview where he's suggested a few interesting things in store for the retelling. /Film has the rundo

Word has trickled out from the Berlin Film Festival that “Avengers” co-stars Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson may reunite for director John Carney and Exclusive Media on the feel good romance, which Judd Apatow will executive produce.Says THR, “In the

One bit of Death Wish trivia known to those who’ve read a lot about the film’s early development is that Sidney Lumet was originally looking at adapting the Brian Garfield novel that Michael Winner eventually turned into the film starring Charles Bronson

On Tuesday, director Joe Carnahan announced on Twitter that he had embarked on a remake of the Charles Bronson vigilante classic Death Wish. The main question, for any director approaching such a topic, especially with source material as infamous as Deat

LOS ANGELES - Director Joe Carnahan is a formidable force, on set and off. His "Hurricane Joe" nickname suggests as much. So, Carnahan seems perfectly suited to do the remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson revenge flick, Death Wish, which is on his to-do li

Word came down earlier this week that director Joe Carnahan had already lined up his next project, hot off the success of his most recent, "The Grey." Carnahan is set to direct a remake of the Charles Bronson punk-killing classic "Death Wish." News of th

Just the other day, we reported that The Grey director Joe Carnahan was set to helm a remake of the 1974 actioner Death Wish. The revenge pic kicked off a wave of actions films and catapulted Charles Bronson to stardom. Very little was known about Carnah

Filmmaker Joe Carnahan attends the New York Times TimesTalk at The Times Center on January 17, 2012 in New York City. (Jason Kempin, Getty Images) Charles Bronson's classic action movie Death Wish is heading back to the big screen with Joe Carnahan as di