This week, the Cinemaholics review The Cloverfield Paradox, the latest entry in the ongoing Cloverfield franchise. These anthology movies have tackled found footage monsters, cat-and-mouse bunker thrillers and something resembling a thread of connections, but is this latest mystery box a paradox unto its own series? Tune in to find out!
Later in the show, the Cinemaholics discuss a whole slew of Mini Reviews, including Peter Rabbit, the James Corden-voiced adaptation of the classic children’s story also starring Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson. They also talk about The 15:17 to Paris, directed by Clint Eastwood and based on a true story starring the real people who were part of the incident: Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Mark Moogalian.
Additional Mini Reviews include Altered Carbon, a new sci-fi series on Netflix starring Joel Kinnaman; Permission, a romantic drama starring Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens; Entanglement, a quirky...
Later in the show, the Cinemaholics discuss a whole slew of Mini Reviews, including Peter Rabbit, the James Corden-voiced adaptation of the classic children’s story also starring Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson. They also talk about The 15:17 to Paris, directed by Clint Eastwood and based on a true story starring the real people who were part of the incident: Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Mark Moogalian.
Additional Mini Reviews include Altered Carbon, a new sci-fi series on Netflix starring Joel Kinnaman; Permission, a romantic drama starring Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens; Entanglement, a quirky...
- 2/12/2018
- by Jon Negroni
- We Got This Covered
Review: ‘The 15:17 to Paris’ Brings Authenticity, Dullness to Clint Eastwood’s Portrayals of Heroism
Social media discourse around The 15:17 to Paris has already positioned it as the first big cinematic culture war flashpoint of the year. But while liberal thinkpiecers and conservative fans alike will be able to find plenty of moments to thump their chests over, it doesn’t really feel as though director Clint Eastwood is aiming for any big statements about America or terrorism or what have you. That doesn’t mean any of them will necessarily be wrong for reading jingoism or affirmations of traditional values in the subtext or text. It’s just that, for example, characters are seen praying not as a dog whistle for Christian audiences but simply because that’s what their real-life selves would do. (And sure, it can be both, but it comes more matter of fact than pointed.)
Of course, in this film, the distinction between real-life self and movie self is ambiguous,...
Of course, in this film, the distinction between real-life self and movie self is ambiguous,...
- 2/8/2018
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
On August 21, 2015, three American buddies from Sacramento – Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos – were vacationing in Europe. The Air Force medic, Oregon National Guardsman and college student at Sacramento State, respectively, left Amsterdam together and boarded the high-speed 15:17 Thalys train to Paris. Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan-born terrorist, was also on board; he was armed with a Ak-47 assault rifle, a 9mm Luger pistol, a box cutter, a hammer, gasoline and a backpack with enough ammunition to inflict mass casualties on more than 500 passengers. Soon after leaving the first class rest room,...
- 2/8/2018
- Rollingstone.com
The three Americans who helped stop a terrorist attack on a French train spoke about portraying themselves in Clint Eastwood's upcoming movie about the 2015 incident, The 15:17 to Paris, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday.
The civilian trio – Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone – had never acted before. Sadler spoke about what it was like to do so not just for the first time, but with a director like Eastwood.
"The dynamic at first, he's such an icon, so...
The civilian trio – Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone – had never acted before. Sadler spoke about what it was like to do so not just for the first time, but with a director like Eastwood.
"The dynamic at first, he's such an icon, so...
- 2/6/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Two years ago, on a French train, three young Americans took down a man who was armed with an Ak-47 and 300 rounds of ammunition. Now, they’re film stars. Where will their extraordinary lives go next?
The only moment during filming that felt truly like a flashback, says Spencer Stone, was when he was crouching by the bleeding man on the floor of the train carriage, his finger pressed into his neck wound to try to stop the blood. “We’re saying the same things we said to each other, we’re on the train, we’re wearing the same clothes, they recreated our injuries so we’re all covered in blood again,” says Stone. “There is the insane amount of blood that I remember.”
Like Stone, the man on the floor is not an actor, but Mark Moogalian, the actual person who lived the events of 21 August 2015, when a gunman,...
The only moment during filming that felt truly like a flashback, says Spencer Stone, was when he was crouching by the bleeding man on the floor of the train carriage, his finger pressed into his neck wound to try to stop the blood. “We’re saying the same things we said to each other, we’re on the train, we’re wearing the same clothes, they recreated our injuries so we’re all covered in blood again,” says Stone. “There is the insane amount of blood that I remember.”
Like Stone, the man on the floor is not an actor, but Mark Moogalian, the actual person who lived the events of 21 August 2015, when a gunman,...
- 2/6/2018
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
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