You may not know Christopher McQuarrie is but, if you love your films, I guarantee you’ve seen at least one thing he’s be involved with. Most famously he wrote the brilliant The Usual Suspects. Yep, that big twist we all love so much was down to him. He’s also been in the director’s chair. Once. He wrote and took the reins of The Way Of The Gun in 2000. Featuring a cast of nasty, despicable, and truly unlikeable characters, it was vastly underrated and deserved a bigger audience. I really should cover it for Cult Film Corner. Anyway, he’s back behind the camera again for Jack Reacher. Read more »
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News: Christopher McQuarrie Returns To Director’s Chair For Jack Reacher
Posted in Movies, News with tags Christopher McQuarrie, Drive, Jack Reacher, Lee Childs, Nicholas Winding Refn, One Shot, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, The Usual Suspects, The Way Of The Gun, Tom Cruise, Werner Herzog on July 5, 2012 by Bjorn GraingerWeekly Ricochet: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, Seven Psychopaths, Killing Them Softly, Gravity, I Know That Voice…
Posted in Movies, Weekly Ricochet with tags Alfonso Cuarón, Andrew Dominik, Bane, Bruce Campbell, Drive, From Russia With Love, Gearge Clooney, Gravity, I Know That Voice, In Bruges, Killing Them Softly, Maniac Cop, Marc Webb, Martin McDonagh, Nicholas Winding Refn, Peter Parker, Sam Mendes, Sandra Bullock, Sean Connery, Seven Psychopaths, Skyfall, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy, Weekly Ricochet on May 20, 2012 by Bjorn GraingerThe Weekly Ricochet is a round up of all the news we want to tell you about but couldn’t justify giving an entire page. First up, The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb has opened a Twitter account to help market the new film, his first tweet being a link to the photo above. Yep, Peter Parker showing some good balance. Read more »
Weekly Ricochet: The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, Only God Forgives, Moonrise Kingdom, The Amazing Spider-Man…
Posted in Comics, Movies, News, Thoughts, Trailer, Weekly Ricochet with tags Avengers Assemble, Bill Murray, Bourne, Bruce Willis, Cobie Smulders, Drive, Ed Norton, Hawkeye, Jarred Gilman, Jeremy Renner, Kara Hayward, Kenneth Kitson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maria Hill, Marvel, Marvel.com, Matt Damon, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Moonrise Kingdom, Nicholas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, Tilda Swinton, Tom Cruise, Wes Anderson on March 4, 2012 by Bjorn GraingerWe start off this week’s Ricochet by taking a look at some pics of the wonderfully named Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Maria Hill. Marvel.com released these shots into the wild not long after The Avengers trailer hit computer screens the world over and got itself download over THIRTEEN MILLION TIMES. Read more »
Review: Drive
Posted in Movie Review, Movies, Thoughts with tags Albert Brooks, Bronson, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan, Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn, Pusher, Ron Perlman, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy on February 8, 2012 by Bjorn GraingerThey say it’s better to be late to the party than to never turn up at all – Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive came out in September to much acclaim. For whatever reason I missed the cinema release, so here I am reviewing the Blu-Ray/DVD. Is it really as good as everyone was saying? OH YES. Read more »





