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Movie Review Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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Release Date:August 22,2014
MPAA Rating:R
Runtime: 102 Mins.
Directors: Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Dennis Haysbert, Martin Csokas, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Chung, Jamie King, Alexa Vega, Julia Garner, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Juno Temple, Christopher Lloyd, Stacy Keach, Jude Ciccolella

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Ava,she has every man wrapped around her little finger. Some even refer to her as a goddess. Senator Roark, he’s the most powerful man in the city. He’s also the most corrupt and vicious. What do these two have in common ? Nothing except they both run rampant in Basin City or Sin City as the residents like to refer to it. That’s right the little town in all of comics has come back to life on the big screen. This time we have three stories that intertwine to serve you up an hour and 42 minutes of film noir goodness on steroids.

The movie hits you with the aesthetic art style of a graphic novel as in other films based off of Frank Millers’ work ( for example : Sin City, 300, or 300: Rise of an Empire). The massive amount of green screen works for the type of environments and action that comprise this film. The camera work is great as it accentuates the absurdity of whats going on onscreen. It’s perfect. The splashes of color thrown in throughout the mostly black and white movie help bring extra pop to the action and added sensuality to the sexiness of all the ladies (especially my girl Rosario Dawson) that you see. The pacing never let the story get boring but there were parts that seemed like they could have been cut out. Like Christopher Meloni’s part as Mort. I guess it was to show how easily Ava could seduce men to do what she wants but I found it unnecessary. I will say that the stories told were pretty good and showed just how flawed the “good guys” are and how incredibly insidious the bad guys are. The action was unrelenting and the violence was of the ultra variety. For the world this movie takes you too it works. The fact that the blood is almost always displayed as white instead of red did soften some of the impact of massive amounts of red stuff splashing everywhere which made the gory bits a little more bearable. I’m glad Miller went to Robert Rodriguez again because he’s made his career off of ridiculous violence and onscreen absurdity.

The stars of the film are selected well. Most of the people who weren’t brutally murdered in the first film return. Rourke as the juggernaut, Marv returns to cause chaos and pain. He’s as fun as he was the last time he stepped in those boots. Alba, as the exotic dancer/ object of Marv’s affection is hot but I grew tired of her dancing and doing little else after a few scenes of it. Dwight is back but Clive Owen has been replaced by Josh Brolin. Dwight is played so well by Brolin I almost forgot Owen played the character back in 2005’s Sin City. Gail is portrayed by the lovely Rosario Dawson. She seems to take a back seat this time out but she is memorable in her appearances on screen being both seductive and deadly. Powers Boothe is the evil Senator Roark. He’s a worthy villain for the city of sin. Manute is played by Dennis Haysbert (The All-State Guy) as the previous actor Michael Clarke Duncan passed away. Haysbert does a great job as the hulking brute devoted to Ava. Ava is played by the phenomenal Eva Green. She’s sexy incarnate as the titular “Dame to Kill For”. You get to see her a lot and a lot of her if you know what I mean (I know you can’t see me but I’m winking and nudging you with my elbow). Christopher Lloyd also makes a funny little appearance in the movie as a back alley doctor.

Overall, I enjoyed the hell out of this movie but some of the over the top acting cost this film a few points. With crazy action and sexuality to spare this movie can and will entertain. But whatever you do don’t bring the kiddies to this one.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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