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Dolph Lundgren talks career revival, old-school action, ‘Avengers’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesA former engineering student and recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to MIT, the Swedish-born Dolph Lundgren first burst on the ...... -
‘Die Hard’: Jai Courtney on Willis, Jackman, action movie etiquette
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesBy late 2011, Jai Courtney had given up on trying to take Hollywood by storm and simply wanted to go ...... -
‘Bullet to the Head’: Walter Hill on Stallone, ‘anti-buddy’ movies
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIn the shoot’em-up action thriller “Bullet to the Head,” which reaches theaters Friday, Sylvester Stallone portrays Jimmy “Bobo” Bonomo, a ...... -
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje talks ‘Thor’ sequel, ‘Bullet to the Head’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAmid the narrowing concentric circles of corruption, murder and big city racketeering featured in the shoot-'em-up action caper “Bullet to ...... -
Hollywood legend Dick Zanuck: a princeling who earned his stripes
When Dick Zanuck and I had lunch last month, it would’ve been impossible to imagine that the veteran producer would be gone six weeks later. Zanuck, who was 77 when he died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, looked at least a decade younger and...
Tags: Lobbying, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Woody Allen, Sam Mendes, Bruce Beresford
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Will Hollywood ever top its Cinema Class of 1982?
24 FramesIf I heard that someone was assembling a screening series of fondly remembered films that included the likes of “Road Warrior,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Blade Runner,” John Carpenter’s “The Thing,&#... -
Book review: 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland' by Patton Oswalt
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFull disclosure: Comedian Patton Oswalt, author of a new book of personal essays and other flights of whimsy called "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland," once invited me to his birthday party at the Lot, the former Warner Bros. studio in West Hollywood. Oswalt...Tags: Steve Martin, Andrew Dice Clay, Philip K Dick, Stand-up Comedy, Culture
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Scott Cooper: The body and soul behind 'Crazy Heart'
The Big PictureThe critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges' peerless performance in "Crazy Heart" as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty, reduced to playing bowling alleys as he tries to...... -
A bond beyond borders
Times Staff WriterABOUT six years ago, while wrapping up "Amores Perros," the movie that would stamp him as the new "It Boy" of global cinema, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu got an early-morning phone call from a man he'd never met in his life. Like Inarritu, the caller was a...Tags: Don Siegel, Mexico, Brad Pitt, Genres, Crimes
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Get the 'Side Effects' experience
OPENING FRIDAY Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, rightly considered one of Hollywood’s smartest movie makers, is at his cleverest in "Side Effects," a canny, cunning big-idea thriller in a minor key, an engrossing zeitgeist whodunit about Wall...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Criminals, Side Effects (movie), Channing Tatum, Bullet to the Head (movie)
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Reel Critics: 'Bullet to the Head' fires blanks
Walter Hill is no stranger to sophisticated action-adventure movies. He has directing, screenwriting or producer credits on "Alien," "48 Hrs." and "Last Man Standing." But you can't expect he would have any subtle variations on the action theme with a...Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Teresa Palmer, Warm Bodies (movie), Rob Corddry, Nicholas Hoult
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Film Review: Plot has one gaping bullet hole
It used to be that actors stopped playing tough-guy action roles after reaching 60. John Wayne probably held out the longest, into his late 60s. With Clint Eastwood continuing into his late 70s (in "Gran Torino"), Arnold Schwarzenegger (65) and...
Tags: Sung Kang, Christian Slater, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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