Fom 20th Century Fox, DIE HARD is getting the Ultimate Christmas Makeover with All-New Festive Trailer for the Holiday Season.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, at Nakatomi Plaza, The office party was festive, but soon interrupted by drama. Hans Gruber and his men, had forced their way in, And taken everyone hostage, trapping them within. But how could they know, there was a cop up above, John McClane had arrived, to win back his wife’s love. He would take them all out, winning everyone’s praise, Welcoming Christmas Day, with his favorite catchphrase.
YIPPEE KI YAY!
Bruce Willis is John McClane in the film that launched the billion-dollar action franchise, DIE HARD. McClane, a New York City cop, flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company’s lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), seize the building and take everyone hostage, McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this beginning-to-end heart-stopping action thriller.
The DIE HARD – CHRISTMAS EDITION is now available on Blu-ray™ and Digital. All five DIE HARD films are also newly available on 4K Digital.
DIE HARD Screens This Saturday Night, December 22nd at Midnight at The Hi-Pointe Theater ( 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117). Admission is only $5.
DIE HARD (1988) is one of the best and most iconic action films from Hollywood. Bruce Willis starred as NYPD Officer John McClane, who tries to save his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and several of her co-workers and friends after being taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman )and his henchmen during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Willis’ witty and deadpan delivery personality, coupled with his never-say-die attitude and relentless attacks on the villains made him a force to be reckoned with, giving us a tough yet comedic performance. Most of DIE HARD takes place inside the Nakatomi Plaza, where you will find all the heart-pounding action as Gruber terrorizes his hostages and tries to rob the treasures within the building the process, while McClane takes on his henchmen one-by-one.
Alan Rickman did a wonderfully devious performance as Gruber, calm and crafty but cold enough to generate no sympathy. Bonnie Bedelia did a great job as Holly Gennaro – gentle, yet fearless. And, Reginald VelJohnson was memorable as Sgt. Al Powell. Highlights are Powell communicating with McClane inside the building, giving him the will to stay tough with all the bad guys around him. With DIE HARD, Director John McTiernan gave us a sly, witty, realistic and sometimes dramatic action-thriller that is just as intense and riveting today as it was in 1988 and better than most or all of the big-class mimickers that have been released since.
Don’t miss it when it screens Saturday Night, December 22nd, at Midnight at The Hi-Pointe Theater
Hi-Pointe Theatre is located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117
DIE HARD Screens This Saturday Night, December 23rd, at Midnight at The Hi-Pointe Theater ( 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117). Admission is only $5.
DIE HARD (1988) is one of the best and most iconic action films from Hollywood. Bruce Willis starred as NYPD Officer John McClane, who tries to save his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and several of her co-workers and friends after being taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman )and his henchmen during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Willis’ witty and deadpan delivery personality, coupled with his never-say-die attitude and relentless attacks on the villains made him a force to be reckoned with, giving us a tough yet comedic performance. Most of DIE HARD takes place inside the Nakatomi Plaza, where you will find all the heart-pounding action as Gruber terrorizes his hostages and tries to rob the treasures within the building the process, while McClane takes on his henchmen one-by-one.
Alan Rickman did a wonderfully devious performance as Gruber, calm and crafty but cold enough to generate no sympathy. Bonnie Bedelia did a great job as Holly Gennaro – gentle, yet fearless. And, Reginald VelJohnson was memorable as Sgt. Al Powell. Highlights are Powell communicating with McClane inside the building, giving him the will to stay tough with all the bad guys around him. With DIE HARD, Director John McTiernan gave us a sly, witty, realistic and sometimes dramatic action-thriller that is just as intense and riveting today as it was in 1988 and better than most or all of the big-class mimickers that have been released since.
Don’t miss it when it screens Saturday Night, December 23rd, at Midnight at The Hi-Pointe Theater
Hi-Pointe Theatre is located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117
DIE HARD Screens This Friday Night, December 23rd, at Midnight at The Hi-Pointe Theater ( 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117). Admission is only $5.
DIE HARD (1988) is one of the best and most iconic action films from Hollywood. Bruce Willis starred as NYPD Officer John McClane, who tries to save his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and several of her co-workers and friends after being taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman )and his henchmen during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Willis’ witty and deadpan delivery personality, coupled with his never-say-die attitude and relentless attacks on the villains made him a force to be reckoned with, giving us a tough yet comedic performance. Most of DIE HARD takes place inside the Nakatomi Plaza, where you will find all the heart-pounding action as Gruber terrorizes his hostages and tries to rob the treasures within the building the process, while McClane takes on his henchmen one-by-one.
Alan Rickman did a wonderfully devious performance as Gruber, calm and crafty but cold enough to generate no sympathy. Bonnie Bedelia did a great job as Holly Gennaro – gentle, yet fearless. And, Reginald VelJohnson was memorable as Sgt. Al Powell. Highlights are Powell communicating with McClane inside the building, giving him the will to stay tough with all the bad guys around him. With DIE HARD, Director John McTiernan gave us a sly, witty, realistic and sometimes dramatic action-thriller that is just as intense and riveting today as it was in 1988 and better than most or all of the big-class mimickers that have been released since.Don’t miss it when it screens December 1st at Schlafly Bottleworks.
Hi-Pointe Theatre is located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117
DIE HARD screensThursday December 1st at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of the ‘A’ Film Series “Culture Shock”
DIE HARD (1988) is one of the best and most iconic action films from Hollywood. Bruce Willis starred as NYPD Officer John McClane, who tries to save his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and several of her co-workers and friends after being taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman )and his henchmen during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Willis’ witty and deadpan delivery personality, coupled with his never-say-die attitude and relentless attacks on the villains made him a force to be reckoned with, giving us a tough yet comedic performance. Most of DIE HARD takes place inside the Nakatomi Plaza, where you will find all the heart-pounding action as Gruber terrorizes his hostages and tries to rob the treasures within the building the process, while McClane takes on his henchmen one-by-one.
Alan Rickman did a wonderfully devious performance as Gruber, calm and crafty but cold enough to generate no sympathy. Bonnie Bedelia did a great job as Holly Gennaro – gentle, yet fearless. And, Reginald VelJohnson was memorable as Sgt. Al Powell. Highlights are Powell communicating with McClane inside the building, giving him the will to stay tough with all the bad guys around him. With DIE HARD, Director John McTiernan gave us a sly, witty, realistic and sometimes dramatic action-thriller that is just as intense and riveting today as it was in 1988 and better than most or all of the big-class mimickers that have been released since.Don’t miss it when it screens December 1st at Schlafly Bottleworks.
$6 for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds.
“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.
The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.
Playing in theaters now is director Gavin Hood’s EYE IN THE SKY.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
The thriller stars Mirren and Rickman alongside Aaron Paul and Academy Award nominee Barkhad Abdi.
Cate Marquis says the film is a “first-rate, intelligent thriller.” Read the full review here.
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Gavin Hood showed a talent for handling complex issues with brilliant skill in “Tsotsie,” a film about a small-time thug that was both a thriller and a balanced exploration of the intersection of crime, poverty and AIDS in South Africa’s slums. Now the South African director brings that knack for taut thrillers with nuance, balance and humanity to the morally murky subject of drone warfare, in EYE IN THE SKY.
Hood takes a neutral tone in this gripping thriller, where a joint British and American mission to capture a British national, who has become an Islamic terrorist leader in Kenyan, is complicated when their remote surveillance, the “eye in the sky,” reveals a suicide bomber mission in progress. The unexpected discovery seems to change the mission from capture to kill, but that decision is debated between politicians, diplomats, military leaders across international lines, in a tension-filled drama with the soldiers at the drone controls buffeted by their own feelings. The suicide bomber plot starts a countdown and window to take action but the decision is further complicated by the appearance of a young girl (Aisha Takow) in the kill zone.
Drone warfare has allowed soldiers to kill enemies from great distance while eliminating the risk of being on the battlefield, and has sparked myriad moral questions. In this film, Hood explores some of those questions, through the eyes of the human beings involved. At the same time, “Eye In The Sky” is a top-notch thriller, with all the tension and rawness needed to keep audiences riveted and nail-biting.
The film features a fine performance by Helen Mirren as hard-as-nails Colonel Katherine Powell, a British military officer who has spent years tracking the targeted terrorist, a British female convert to radical jihad who has risen to become number 4 on the international terrorist most-wanted list.
When intelligence leads Powell to a house in Kenya, the British see a chance to capture the terrorist alive, and bring her back for interrogation. The late Alan Rickman plays British Lieutenant General Frank Benson, the military top brass observing the military operation Powell is directing, along with a few British politicians, from a panelled conference room in London. In one of his last performances, Rickman plays his part with style and a sharp intelligence, a character who helps viewers to tease out what responsibility is carried by the military and what by their civilian political leaders.
A need for a positive identification of the target leads to a delay. When their terrorist change locations, the “eye in the sky” follows, sending a insect drone into the house, operated by Kenyan undercover agent Jama Farah (Barkhad Abdi). Surveillance reveals the preparations for a suicide bombing. To prevent civilian deaths, the military wants to change the mission from capture to kill but they need political approval for the change.
In a conventional action thriller, this scenario would have painted the various people involved in this decision as right or wrong, good or bad, morally black or white. Hood instead lets each character express their own view of the situation, as well as reveal their feelings about their actions. The result is a film that has all the ticking-clock tension of an action thriller, while intelligently exploring the moral and ethical questions behind drone strikes in a balanced way.
Hood takes no sides, simply presenting the issue in all its complicated nature for the audience to decide. There are no perfect, clear answers here – it is all in the ethical, moral calculation. Is the death of one innocent person worth it if it means saving hundred of others? Do they let this terror mastermind slip from their grasp? How do the Americans and British differ? What about the feelings of those who will pull the trigger? The bouncing back-and-forth in taking responsibility for the action is very telling, as are the different calculations made by the military and the politicians. The film also touches on the moral responsibility and personal anguish of the soldier with his finger on the trigger, USAF drone pilot Lieutenant Steve Watts, (Aaron Paul), something rarely presented in conventional thrillers.
Although the film plays like an ensemble cast piece, it is interesting to note that all the various characters are in far-flung locations – the general and politicians in a posh London office, Col. Powell in her command center, the American drone operators in Las Vegas. All are pretty remote from the focus of the action, except for the Kenyan agents on the ground, who are facing more direct risk, particularly Kenyan agent Farah, played with verve by Barkhad Abdi, who was nominated for an Oscar for his debut role as the Somali pirate leader in “Captain Phillips. The thriller brilliantly illustrates the power of a connected world, the sophisticated state of surveillance and communications, as well as its limits.
Mirren and Rickman dominate most of the action but the cast also includes Jeremy Northam as Brian Woodale and Iain Glen as British Foreign Secretary James Willett. Director Gavin Hood also plays a role, as Lt. Colonel Ed Walsh.
EYE IN THE SKY is a compulsively watchable thriller, packed with some striking performances, but also a film that engages the mind and humanity of viewers. That Hood can pack all this real-world complexity in a film that is still a terrific, white-knuckle thriller is amazing and a tribute to his skill. Aided by nice performances and believable, feeling characters, EYE IN THE SKY a must-see film that tackles the issue of drone strikes in a first-rate, intelligent thriller.
OVERALL RATING: 4 1/2 OUT OF 5 STARS
EYE IN THE SKY opens in St. Louis March 18th, 2016.
Watch Alan Rickman and Academy Award winner Helen Mirren navigate the kill-chain in a new clip from director Gavin Hood’s EYE IN THE SKY.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
The upcoming thriller starring Mirren and Rickman alongside Aaron Paul and Academy Award nominee Barkhad Abdi opens in select theaters Friday, March 11.
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Disney has released a new TV spot, along with a colorful new poster, for ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.
The latest video features Pink’s cover of the iconic song “White Rabbit.” P!NK will write and record an original song for the film and you can get a behind-the-scenes look at P!nk’s cover of “White Rabbit” in the featurette.
In the all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer. “
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS reunites the all-star cast from the worldwide blockbuster phenomenon, including: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter along with the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall. We are also introduced to several new characters: Zanik Hightopp (Rhys Ifans), the Mad Hatter’s father and Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), a peculiar creature who is part human, part clock.
Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.
Presented in Digital 3D, Real D 3D and IMAX 3D, Disney’s ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS opens in U.S. theaters on May 27, 2016.
Check out the new images of Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and Alan Rickman from director Gavin Hood’s EYE IN THE SKY.
The film had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to a standing ovation and rave reviews.
The upcoming thriller about a top secret military operation that escalates into international crisis opens in select theaters Friday, March 11.
Alan Rickman stars as Lt. General Frank Benson.
Phoebe Fox (left) stars as Carrie Gershon and Aaron Paul (right) stars as Steve Watts.
(Left to Right) Actress Phoebe Fox, director Gavin Hood and actor Aaron Paul on the set of EYE IN THE SKY.
Phoebe Fox (left) stars as Carrie Gershon and Aaron Paul (right) stars as Steve Watts.
Director Gavin Hood (left) and actress Helen Mirren (right) on the set of EYE IN THE SKY.
Barkhad Abdi stars as Jama Farah.
(Left to Right) Daniel Fox as Tom Bellamy, Iain Glen as James Willett and Jessica Jones as Kate Barnes.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.”
But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Also starring Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen and Phoebe Fox, the film is directed by Gavin Hood (TSOTSI) and written by Guy Hibbert (“Prime Suspect”). Producers are Ged Doherty, Colin Firth and David Lancaster.
