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The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Fuqua's direction and Butler's performance, but criticized the overt violence and screenplay. Olympus Has Fallen was one of two films released in 2013 that depicted a terrorist attack against the White House; the other was White House Down, which was released three months later.
Giving the movie a B+, Persall said that although Little Red Wagon is a "nice movie", it is "probably too much so for viewers seeking meatier drama". [6] Also criticizing the lack of drama, Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch gave the film two stars out of four, writing, "There's weighty material waiting to be processed here, but in ...
Best Man Down is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ted Koland and starring Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Addison Timlin, and Tyler Labine. The film was primarily shot in the Twin Cities and premiered in the fall of 2012 at The Hamptons International Film Festival under the original title "LUMPY." The film was also chosen to ...
The film opens with Flannery O'Connor, an idiosyncratic young Southern writer and faithful Catholic, imagining a melodramatic movie trailer with a crazed, nymphomaniac boarder, Star Drake (played by Maya Hawke, who also plays O'Connor and multiple other roles) getting her boarding-house hosts into violent trouble.
Production on the film was expected to begin later in 2000, with Gavin O'Connor directing and Greg O'Connor producing. [2] In 2001, the project was subject to a turnaround deal, which saw the rights ceded to Intermedia. Production was expected to start in February 2002 in New York City, and Mark Wahlberg and Hugh Jackman were in talks to star. [5]
Down (re-titled The Shaft on US releases) is a 2001 science fiction horror film written and directed by Dick Maas and starring James Marshall, Naomi Watts, and Eric Thal. It is a remake of the 1983 Dutch-language film De Lift , which was also directed by Maas.
Jeremy is a 1973 American romantic-drama film starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor as two high school students who share a tentative month-long romance. [2] [3] [4] It was the first film directed by Arthur Barron, and won the prize for Best First Work in the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. [5]
Writing that the script was a mess, Tallerico said "Down" fell into the outdated “sexually active characters suffer” model of the genre. [8] In a more favorable three-star review at The Daily Dot , Eddie Strait called the episode "a fleet, economical film" whose sense of humor about itself kept it from descending into cliché. [ 9 ]