The Equalizer 2 brings back Denzel Washington (Fences), along with director Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), continuing the further adventures of one man’s quest to...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 24, 2016 · Last modified August 6, 2018
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a classic Western of the same name from 1960, which itself is a remake of a classic samurai masterpiece, The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. Antoine Fuqua takes the director’s...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 26, 2014 · Last modified December 16, 2019
The Equalizer is very loosely based on the hit show from the 1980s, starring Edward Woodward, that ran from 1985 to 1989. This new incarnation ramps up the comic book aspects of its premise and...
Bruce and co. are sent on a special-ops mission into the Nigerian jungle with a simple mission to get an American (by marriage), and any other “non-indigenous” people out of there before the newly empowered...
After some over-stylized attempts at making action movies with mixed results, Training Day heralds director Antoine Fuqua’s maturity in the field. The former music video director has always seemed to have a flair for visual...
Chow Yun-Fat plays John Lee, one of the world’s best hitmen. When a powerful Mob boss’ son gets killed by a police officer (Rooker), the boss (Tsang) wants the cop’s son dead and sends Lee...
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