10. The Duel (2016)
Nothing like impersonating someone else to carry out the mission, ey? Even in the Wild West, you had to play spy at times. A young ranger sent to a remote town to investigate a series of murders and disappearances finds the locals scared of their priest. To uncover the truth, the ranger puts on the hat of a new town Sheriff.
9. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
Revenge comes in many forms, but it’s always a bittersweet ordeal. Lefty is the partner of a local lawman in their town, and his colleague is far more successful. When he’s elected as Senator, he leaves the law and order in Lefty’s hands, but before he can leave the town, he’s killed — and Lefty swears to avenge his friend.
8. The Skin of the Wolf (2017)
Some people are just not meant to have lasting relationships with others. A highlander leads a life of solitude,...
Nothing like impersonating someone else to carry out the mission, ey? Even in the Wild West, you had to play spy at times. A young ranger sent to a remote town to investigate a series of murders and disappearances finds the locals scared of their priest. To uncover the truth, the ranger puts on the hat of a new town Sheriff.
9. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
Revenge comes in many forms, but it’s always a bittersweet ordeal. Lefty is the partner of a local lawman in their town, and his colleague is far more successful. When he’s elected as Senator, he leaves the law and order in Lefty’s hands, but before he can leave the town, he’s killed — and Lefty swears to avenge his friend.
8. The Skin of the Wolf (2017)
Some people are just not meant to have lasting relationships with others. A highlander leads a life of solitude,...
- 4/21/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
Stars: Nicky Whelan, Luke Wilson, Brendan Fehr, Dolph Lundgren, Chris Mullinax, Scout Taylor-Compton, Scott Martin | Written by Shane Dax Taylor, C. Alec Rossel, Daniel Zirilli | Directed by Shane Dax Taylor
The Best Man opens with a rescue mission as a group of mercenaries rescue an American woman kidnapped in Mexico. Despite being much better equipped than the kidnappers they take casualties including Axel who take a bullet to the skull and is left for dead. A year later that woman, Brook, is marrying Cal, one of the men who saved her. His cousin Bradley is the best man and another of the crew, Anders is also going to be there.
Brook’s father has rented a huge, remote resort for the ceremony, but they may have wished they chose a more urban location when a team of heavily armed wedding crashers show up.
Director Shane Dax Taylor and his co-writers C.
The Best Man opens with a rescue mission as a group of mercenaries rescue an American woman kidnapped in Mexico. Despite being much better equipped than the kidnappers they take casualties including Axel who take a bullet to the skull and is left for dead. A year later that woman, Brook, is marrying Cal, one of the men who saved her. His cousin Bradley is the best man and another of the crew, Anders is also going to be there.
Brook’s father has rented a huge, remote resort for the ceremony, but they may have wished they chose a more urban location when a team of heavily armed wedding crashers show up.
Director Shane Dax Taylor and his co-writers C.
- 4/18/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
The Casting Society of America will host a town hall on Thursday to explore diversity, equity and inclusion in the casting process. The virtual gathering is co-sponsored by the Csa’s Black, Indigenous and People of Color Alliance and will be moderated by Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson, CEO of the Disruptive Equity Education Project and a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
The town hall, which starts at noon Pt, is the first in a new series of panel discussions called “Closer to Equity” that the Csa will host. The town hall is open to all casting professionals, including Csa members and non-members. To register, email: BIPOCAlliance@CastingSociety.com
Thursday’s panelists will include casting directors Angelique Midthunder, Erica Jensen, Kim Coleman and Zora DeHorter; casting director and producer Kim Heil (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Kim Williams, VP Casting at Touchstone Television; and casting associates Margie Vargas and Xavier Rubiano.
“The objective of this first conversation,” Csa says, “is to provide a space for casting professionals to have the difficult conversations around diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion, and move toward healing and change.” Dr. Amante-Jackson said that she strives to create “space and experiences that foster conversations around equity and dismantling systemic oppression and racism in pursuit of advancing equitable outcomes for all.”
The panelists had this to say in advance of Thursday’s town hall:
Angelique Midthunder: “As people of color ourselves, Bipoc casting directors have an intimate understanding of the complexities of different cultures as well as an ingrained obligation to represent them with integrity. We are the bridge between producers and the Bipoc acting community.”
Kim Heil: “Many Bipoc professionals in the arts and entertainment industry like ourselves have been working for years – if not decades – with equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind. So what’s different about now? This moment now demands that we examine not just those principles, but the infrastructure and the systems that those principles are circulated. The systems themselves are flawed. So how can we restructure a better way of working?”
Kim Williams: “I’m excited to go beyond just talking and, with the help of Dr. Darnisa, move towards addressing the critical issues and changes that are necessary to bring about true progress towards equity both in front of and behind the camera.”
Margie Vargas: “Diversity and inclusion in casting is about bringing something unique to the table that no one else can. Each unique perspective can only build a better, stronger, and more unified casting community.”
Zora DeHorter: “As a woman, a black woman, I have dealt with my share of assumptions and presumptions; at times an unnecessary burden to carry. Being part of an open, safe space to have dialogues about how to affect changes is so exciting. I am so looking forward to having discussions about hiring practices, workplace practices, and how we, as Bipoc casting professionals, can effectively and positively move forward to a better, enlightened, hopeful future.”
Erica Jensen: “I’m encouraged by the continued conversation happening in the casting community. The only way to achieve equity in casting is if we operate as a unit rather than individuals. We need to have consistency on this topic from office to office and be positive examples to the rest of the entertainment industry.”
Xavier Rubiano: “It’s a privilege and an honor to be able to speak on this panel and I look forward to amplifying the voices of our Bipoc colleagues in casting and to educate our White peers to help create a safer, inclusive and anti-racist casting community both in our audition rooms and in our offices.”...
The town hall, which starts at noon Pt, is the first in a new series of panel discussions called “Closer to Equity” that the Csa will host. The town hall is open to all casting professionals, including Csa members and non-members. To register, email: BIPOCAlliance@CastingSociety.com
Thursday’s panelists will include casting directors Angelique Midthunder, Erica Jensen, Kim Coleman and Zora DeHorter; casting director and producer Kim Heil (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Kim Williams, VP Casting at Touchstone Television; and casting associates Margie Vargas and Xavier Rubiano.
“The objective of this first conversation,” Csa says, “is to provide a space for casting professionals to have the difficult conversations around diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion, and move toward healing and change.” Dr. Amante-Jackson said that she strives to create “space and experiences that foster conversations around equity and dismantling systemic oppression and racism in pursuit of advancing equitable outcomes for all.”
The panelists had this to say in advance of Thursday’s town hall:
Angelique Midthunder: “As people of color ourselves, Bipoc casting directors have an intimate understanding of the complexities of different cultures as well as an ingrained obligation to represent them with integrity. We are the bridge between producers and the Bipoc acting community.”
Kim Heil: “Many Bipoc professionals in the arts and entertainment industry like ourselves have been working for years – if not decades – with equity, diversity, and inclusion in mind. So what’s different about now? This moment now demands that we examine not just those principles, but the infrastructure and the systems that those principles are circulated. The systems themselves are flawed. So how can we restructure a better way of working?”
Kim Williams: “I’m excited to go beyond just talking and, with the help of Dr. Darnisa, move towards addressing the critical issues and changes that are necessary to bring about true progress towards equity both in front of and behind the camera.”
Margie Vargas: “Diversity and inclusion in casting is about bringing something unique to the table that no one else can. Each unique perspective can only build a better, stronger, and more unified casting community.”
Zora DeHorter: “As a woman, a black woman, I have dealt with my share of assumptions and presumptions; at times an unnecessary burden to carry. Being part of an open, safe space to have dialogues about how to affect changes is so exciting. I am so looking forward to having discussions about hiring practices, workplace practices, and how we, as Bipoc casting professionals, can effectively and positively move forward to a better, enlightened, hopeful future.”
Erica Jensen: “I’m encouraged by the continued conversation happening in the casting community. The only way to achieve equity in casting is if we operate as a unit rather than individuals. We need to have consistency on this topic from office to office and be positive examples to the rest of the entertainment industry.”
Xavier Rubiano: “It’s a privilege and an honor to be able to speak on this panel and I look forward to amplifying the voices of our Bipoc colleagues in casting and to educate our White peers to help create a safer, inclusive and anti-racist casting community both in our audition rooms and in our offices.”...
- 10/13/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has released their list of new titles coming in the month of June, as well as a last call for everything getting ready to leave the streaming service.
Highlights arriving this month include the fifth season of Netflix’s popular psychological thriller series “Black Mirror,” coming June 5, and Hilary Swank’s thriller “I Am Mother, coming June 7. And whether or not you were alive in 1993 when the original TV mini-series “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” came out, you can still appreciate the remake starring Ellen Page as Laura Linney’s on-screen daughter when it arrives June 7.
This month is the last chance to watch what is arguably the best moon mission movie, “Apollo 13,” starring the ultimate dream team, Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise. Other classics getting the boot include “Legally Blonde” and its sequel “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,” along with “Friday the 13th” and “Pretty in Pink.
Highlights arriving this month include the fifth season of Netflix’s popular psychological thriller series “Black Mirror,” coming June 5, and Hilary Swank’s thriller “I Am Mother, coming June 7. And whether or not you were alive in 1993 when the original TV mini-series “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” came out, you can still appreciate the remake starring Ellen Page as Laura Linney’s on-screen daughter when it arrives June 7.
This month is the last chance to watch what is arguably the best moon mission movie, “Apollo 13,” starring the ultimate dream team, Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise. Other classics getting the boot include “Legally Blonde” and its sequel “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,” along with “Friday the 13th” and “Pretty in Pink.
- 5/22/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
A seemingly superficial chance meeting can surprisingly lead to a multitude of people’s ultimate date with destiny. That’s certainly the case for the diverse characters in the new action film, ‘Big Kill,’ whose initial wild ride ultimately leads to a fight for survival. The characters’ powerful transformation is intriguingly highlighted in the Western, which was […]
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- 3/19/2019
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
After exchanging tense words, characters with deadly agendas use their guns to solve a dilemma at the saloon in an exclusive clip from Scott Martin's new Western Big Kill.
Below, you can check out our exclusive clip from Big Kill, which is coming to On Demand, Digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 19th from Cinedigm.
Synopsis: "After the death of his wife, Jim, the accountant, has come from the East to join his brother in business. Jake and Travis, two misfit rogues with one foot on each side of the law, have come from the south after being run out of Mexico under a hail of gunfire. What they find in the West is a wild ride, a fight for survival, and a moment of decision that will change them all forever."
Big Kill stars Christoph Sander, Jason Patric "(Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Yellow Birds) , Michael Paré, Clint Hummel,...
Below, you can check out our exclusive clip from Big Kill, which is coming to On Demand, Digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 19th from Cinedigm.
Synopsis: "After the death of his wife, Jim, the accountant, has come from the East to join his brother in business. Jake and Travis, two misfit rogues with one foot on each side of the law, have come from the south after being run out of Mexico under a hail of gunfire. What they find in the West is a wild ride, a fight for survival, and a moment of decision that will change them all forever."
Big Kill stars Christoph Sander, Jason Patric "(Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Yellow Birds) , Michael Paré, Clint Hummel,...
- 3/13/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Actress Stephanie Beran returns home for the St. Louis premiere of her new film, Big Kill, this Friday, December 7th, alongside director Scott Martin. Beran (who plays Felicia Stiletto in the film) and Martin (who also appears in the film) will be at the Marcus Chesterfield Cine for the premiere as well as a special Q&A session following the 7pm showing.
Tickets are on sale now and available to the general public at the theater box office and wherever Marcus tickets are sold online.
Where: Marcus Chesterfield Cine
When: Friday, December 7 @ 7pm
Q&A following immediately after
A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date with destiny in a boom town gone bust called Big Kill. After the death of his wife, Jim, the accountant, has come from the East to join his brother in business. Jake and Travis, two...
Tickets are on sale now and available to the general public at the theater box office and wherever Marcus tickets are sold online.
Where: Marcus Chesterfield Cine
When: Friday, December 7 @ 7pm
Q&A following immediately after
A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date with destiny in a boom town gone bust called Big Kill. After the death of his wife, Jim, the accountant, has come from the East to join his brother in business. Jake and Travis, two...
- 12/4/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Following a nearly ten-year journey, Can You Ever Forgive Me? hits theaters this weekend via Fox Searchlight. Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and based on the true story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel, the film will have a platform start this weekend en route to several hundred runs.
The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
Also one...
The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
Also one...
- 10/19/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear — specifically, the mid-1950s to the late ’60s — when Paramount and Warner Bros. relied on producers such as A.C. Lyles and Hal Wallis, and directors like Henry Hathaway, Gordon Douglas, and Burt Kennedy, to maintain a steady flow of workmanlike Westerns for consumption by diehard horse opera fans at theaters and drive-ins everywhere. That’s the invitation extended by writer-director-star Scott Martin’s “Big Kill,” one of the precious few Westerns of recent years that one can easily imagine as a decades-ago vehicle for John Wayne, Dean Martin, James Stewart, and their contemporaries with only minor tweaking of the script.
Yes, it clocks in at a leisurely 127 minutes, but that makes it only four minutes longer than John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962) — just one of the obvious influences on Martin’s scenario about an upright tenderfoot...
Yes, it clocks in at a leisurely 127 minutes, but that makes it only four minutes longer than John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962) — just one of the obvious influences on Martin’s scenario about an upright tenderfoot...
- 10/19/2018
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Shooting an indie Western should be a tricky thing, and writer/director Scott Martin ups the ante by also starring in his film Big Kill. The project centers on an accountant named Jim (Last Man Standing’s Christoph Sanders) who heads West after his wife’s death to go into business with his brother. Along with the help [...]
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- 9/25/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
"See to it you pass through quickly." Archstone Distribution has released the official trailer for an action western thriller titled Big Kill, the latest feature from Texas-born filmmaker Scott Martin (Battle Force). The pitch for this one actually sounds pretty good: A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date with destiny in a boom town gone bust called Big Kill. Starring Christoph Sanders, Jason Patric, Michael Pare, Lou Diamond Phillips, Clint Hummel, K.C. Clyde, Stephanie Beran, and Danny Trejo. This ain't no Coen Brothers western, but then again nothing is. It's a nice twist the town is named "Big Kill". This looks like it has some grit, but I'm not too sure about it. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Scott Martin's Big Kill, direct from YouTube: A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a...
- 9/20/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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