Tag: Russell Crowe

Want to see ‘Body of Lies’ with the Movie Geeks?

The Movie Geeks will be out and about seeing the new Ridley Scott movie ‘Body of Lies’ on Monday October 6th, at 7pm. If you want passes, then email the almighty Ram Man(ramman@wearemoviegeeks.com) and he will send you codes for the movie. The location will be on the tickets…

We have given out all of the passes, and this will probably be filled to capacity with our awesome viewers! Look for more giveaways soon..

‘Body of Lies’ opens everywhere October 10th, and for more info visit the official website http://www.body-of-lies.com

Russell Crowe as Dr. Watson

Has Guy Ritchie found his Dr. Watson? According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, Russell Crowe is set to star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in  the film about legendary English detective Sherlock Holmes.

“Russell wants the part, Guy wants Russell,† a movie source told The Sun newspaper. “All they’ve got left to do is dot the i’s and cross the t’s.†

Crowe had been due to start work on Ridley Scott’s film about Robin Hood and star as the Sheriff of Nottingham. But that has now been put on the backburner because of production delay, leaving Crowe free to concentrate on his new role as Dr Watson.

The movie’s script is based on a new comic book series about the famous English detective, with filming due to begin next month.

If true, it would be a brilliant bit of casting and show that Crowe is at that A-list status where he can start taking secondary parts and/or be in a film just for the fun of it.

Russell Crowe in ‘Tenderness’

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Lucky for us that Russell Crowe can still find time to act in films outside of the studio system. As with his  earlier works like ‘Romper Stomper,’  ‘The Sum of Us,’ and ‘The Quick and the Dead,’  one gets the feeling Crowe is more at home making the smaller, character-driven  films. From Australian  director Jon Polson (Swim Fan, Hide & Seek),  ‘Tenderness’ follows a violent teenager, Eric, whose life  becomes more unruly when  he meets  Lori, a 16-year-old runaway. Crowe plays Lieutenant Cristofuoro, a cop who sets out to unravel Eric’s complex past. It also stars Laura Dern, last seen in HBO’s ‘Recount.’

Filmed in New York City in May 2006, scheduled for a Fall  2007 release and then postponed, we should finally  experience the ‘Tenderness’  sometime  during the 2008 Oscar season.

Russell Crowe Playing Bill Hicks

Russell Crowe could be stepping behind the mic stand as Comedian Bill Hicks in a upcoming biopic.   The Oscar winner spoke with the Sydney Morning Herald
 about his the film and the postponement of Ridley Scott’s ‘Nottingham’.

“I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer,” Crowe told the paper.

Hick was a controversial American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from prostate cancer at the age of 32.

‘Nottingham’, Crowe’s next film, begins filming in March of next year.

‘Nottingham’ postponed

  

Too bad, so sad….Ridley Scott’s ‘Nottingham,’ starring long time collaborator Russell Crowe,  has been postponed indefinitely. Universal said in a statement that the film, which had an August start date, was shut down due to a “cloud of the SAG strike”, “the film’s forest locations need to be green,” and  the project’s script.  “The current version of the screenplay,” the studio said, “is not yet where the studio and the filmmakers want it to be in terms of realizing the full value of the story. Universal could have moved forward with one of these challenges, but the confluence of the three caused the studio to reconsider and take the time for all conditions to be optimal.”  Having read the  Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff script, even with the Brian Helgeland rewrite, I think Universal’s worries are justified.

Produced jointly by Universal and Imagine Entertainment, ‘Nottingham’  is a different variation on Robin Hood’s notorious bad guy.  Even though no new production date has been set, Crowe, Scott, Imagine, and Universal are still attached to the project.  This October, look for Russell Crowe in  ‘Body of Lies,’ the fourth collaboration with Ridley Scott.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Review: ‘3:10 to Yuma’

Zac:

James Magnold’s new film is the first big studio western since Unforgiven, and along with The Assassination of Jesse James harkens a call for a return to this genre in cinema as long as it is taken seriously and in talented hands.
Talent is abundant with the leads of Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, staring as our villain and hero respectively, and James Magnold coming off the success of Walk the Line the movie was primed for success. A remake of a film of the same name from 1957, the plot involves the escorting of legendary criminal Ben Wade (Crowe) by a smattering of personas, particularly Dan Evans (Bale) a civil war vet and rancher trying to earn the respect of his family and pay off the debts on his ranch.
Crowe is great as the smooth talking likeable bad guy Ben Wade that you can’t help but enjoy his antics. He is lethal and not one to be trifled with and is ever so confident in every decision he makes. Willing to take risks and do whatever it takes to save his own skin you never know what Wade is going to do next.
Bale plays Evans as an opposite to Crowe’s Wade, always avoiding conflict and watching out for his family. Evans is weak and gets walked over by many and is respected by few; including some of his family members. Evans is trying to prove himself by helping getting wade on the 3:10, but throughout the film we still see the fear and watch him grow and gain confidence as they near their ultimate destination.
The supporting cast is also good with Alan Tudyk as the wholesome veterinarian/doctor as the voice of good throughout the film. Logan Lerman is good as Evans son that ends up along for the ride. Peter Fonda overacts his way through a grizzled “pinkerton” role as a hired gun for the railroad Wade keeps robbing.
Ben Foster deserves specific mention as the wild eyed psycho, Charlie Prince, 2nd in command to Wade’s gang. Foster oozes evil and is ruthless and no heart as he moves trough the film killing without question feeding off the potential for violence. Foster is a great actor and hopefully this gains him a lot more well deserved work.
The film works well and never slows down until a bit of dragging toward the end in Contention, but the running time zips by with plenty of action and rarely leaves the party or Wade and Evans. The film also looks really good and authentic with the gritty feel of the old west beautifully presented. The music is also worth mentioning and calls back to the great scores of Ennio Morricone, with the music sucking you in from the opening title screen.
3:10 to Yuma works very well and has no major faults outside a bit of a questioning of the motivations of characters at the end. The movie just lacks that special punch to send it into that amazing stratosphere of film. Crowe and Bale are excellent as always and the movie is extremely entertaining, it’s just missing something, what I don’t know, but something didn’t click with me. Anyways, check it out, one not to be missed, especially for western fans that have been salivating for something new for while.

[rating: 4.5/5]